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i think it's a combination of things:

1. losing limit strength, although this is probably not so important as i don't think my limit strength drops all that much without squatting. i can get back up near 2xbw pretty quickly after a layoff and that seems to be mostly about neural adaptations/re-learning the movement. for example, i did a pretty easy 330x1 at ~170-172 a few months ago.
2. PAP/STIM is definitely the biggest part, but i'd break it into two categories:
2a. traditional PAP/STIM, in the adarq sense that you get your CNS excited, muscle fibers recruited, etc.
2b. i love squatting, doing it well and doing challenging reps is very motivational for me and helps me enjoy being in the gym. i jump better if i'm in a good mood overall.

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: hamstrings a little, biceps
ACHES/INJURIES: right knee (?)
MENTAL STATE: good

- warm up

- ME SVJ x 5,5

- SL pogo x 10,10,10/leg

- DL front-to-back line hop x 20,20

- DL side-to-side line hop x 20,20

later:

- extended stretching quads/hamstrings/external hip

DIET
breakfast: breakfast: veggie omelet no cheese, glass of fresh-squeezed OJ, two cups coffee, small bowl of granola with dried fruit and strawberry yogurt
lunch: lagman (beef noodle soup with veggies), ground beef kebab, mashed potatoes and some other kind of grain/bean thing that i could not identify, beef samosa with toasted sesame seeds (delicious), tea
dinner: spaghetti alfredo with chicken, baba ghanoush, tabbouleh with pomegranate seeds, orange fanta

the people that got fat probably got more muscle, too, they just overate and were lazy on top of it.

To quote Lyle: "No shock, the placebo group had no change in anything. Training alone got the guys four and a half pounds LBM in 10 weeks. But steroids alone worked better: 6.6 pounds LBM in the same 10 weeks. With just one shot in the butt every week. Clearly training and exercise was synergistic and the third group gained close to what you’d predict from adding steroids and training alone together. But steroids alone built more muscle than training alone and just as much strength."

training alone for 10 weeks: 4.5 pounds LBM gained
600mg of test per week and no training for 10 weeks: 6.6 pounds of LBM gained
600mg of test per week and training for 10 weeks: 13 pounds of LBM gained

point is, roids make your muscles grow.

EDIT: maybe i don't know what you mean by "just worked out" effect.

maybe overstretching/stretching too aggressively? i have done that in the past (years ago).

shot last week. foreground is tajikistan, background is afghanistan.

i don't really care about boxing. i would love to see GGG beat mayweather's face in, though. i'd probably pay to see that.

i like vag's setup. only thing i would add is make sure you're getting in at least one session per week of jumping practice, preferably more. you're like me, you're probably only ever gonna dunk on an optimal jump on an optimal day. so treat it like a high jump and practice. one day could be before or after your basketball game, the other could be pretty much any of the other days except wednesday.