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I'm 19, and I don't care how unforgiving anyone is about this. That would make me a bigger pussy than yourself LBSS, and the other kid who has the confidence to debase people behind a computer. I would argue with you, but it would cause my brain to atrophy.

I doubt you will overcome your ego to try this exercise, but if you did, you would realize there is less pressure on your back than in a squat/deadlift. One of the reasons I came up with this is so I wouldn't have to put so much load on my lower back from those exercises...

And adarq the body has a tremendous capacity to recover. A broken back is a lot worse than a few 100 inch depth jumps, but I can provide a couple examples of people who have the knowledge of incredible healing, through diet: Dr. Robert Cassar, David Wolfe. Both broke their backs somehow and are just thriving now on foods that promote healing; unprocessed, nutrient rich food. Joint problems are almost always diet related, provide me an example to refute what I'm saying...

Quote from: nba8340 on April 17, 2010, 07:04:36 pm

how does the lower back contribute to the vertical jump exactly, either one or two feet, standing/running

it shouldn't really contribute much at all, in terms of hyperextension impacting vert.

I think it definitely contributes something minor, a very fast contraction, . .  I've felt tweaks there from doing full speed RVJs, just like in a long jump attempt sometimes my abdominals forcefully contract sometime after the jump, and the back as well

Posted this here because I think this is worthy of discussion. I thought of this exercise only a few months ago. And it mimics the RVJ more than any other exercise I've seen anyone do. Check it

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4vg1VnFaHI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4vg1VnFaHI</a>

has anyone seen this? this white guy was all over it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFfOmzUoTuE

OH yeah, the VMO, yeah yeah. Hm that's interesting for you, I really don't know everyone's different. But it's still very interesting if we can figure out how to train each leg individually to train the ways they work during an RVJ. WHich is what I'm trying to do atm, kinda stopped squats in general. Used to love front squats and my SVJ was going up but I'd rather train speed involved in the RVJ. I wonder what these ppls SVJs are. I know Troy McCray has a lot of strength, but these TDub and GC take high speed run ups

Yeah I did mental training involving trampolines and springboards for four straight weeks and noticed a quicker SVJ. It was like a 1/8th squat, used to be slower.

But yeah I'm wodnering if mentally training can help recovery of muscles since you are bringing blood to the muscles just by thinking about contracting them. And maybe that increases protein synthesis in the muscles? That would be weird but awesome

THis is definitely what I'm most interested at the present moment; I actually perform mental training on all non-training days, for around 10 minutes minimum, and I've thought of more unique exercises to perform, but haven't seen significant strength gains or anything. THe only time I noticed a different was when I did a lot of trampoline trianing in my head, a lot of overspeed training using springboards, trampolines, other bouncy platforms, and my SVJ became a lot faster with minimal ROM.

What I'd like to see is these studies performed on trained athletes who have already learned to recruit 90%+ of their muscle fibers. In untrained ppl it makes sense to see these gains, but I wonder if it's possible to see gains in MUSCLE through mental training. What if we could trick the body into building more muscle by thinking about it. That would be really cool.

haha yeah I mentioned him in my video because that inspired me to collect some pine pollen, thanks for the compliments!

Yeah for protein I eat bee pollen, spirulina, and that definitely works, in terms of calories, I eat a lot of fats, low carbin it, and that's pretty easy, and that also provides much more protein.
FOr carbs it's just fruits and a lot of greens, blended with spices like cinnamon, whatever I have really, maybe herbal teas thrown in there.

Hemp seeds are amazing for muscle building/fat loss so if I have them I eat those, and sunflower seeds have a great amino acid profile as well, and more nutrients than all other nuts and seeds except a rare few. But I like to have coconut flakes as well to balance out the types of fats . . . don't want to eat too much polyunsaturated fat and lower your testosterone. Peanut butter as well, but it's easy to overeat that so have i moderation.

I don't know what my full triple jump is at now, haven't tested it, nor do I have a long enough measuring tape but this summer I'll get around to doing full speed long/triple jumps, and record of course . . . on their own they are very tough plyometric exercises, can't do too many of them