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LanceSTS's Performance Blog / Re: Commonalities of High Level jumping athletes (single leg)
« on: April 23, 2012, 01:04:51 am »Lance, what were the numbers of the single leg box squat when your athletes were doing them? I'm curious how strong they were in that movement, them being high level.
170 lb male at 365 x 3
160 lb female at 315 x 2
Holy shit.
One of my profs had an olympic triple Jumper that took 315 in the squat rack, unracked it as if he was going to do a free squat, then proceeded to sit into a legal depth squat one ONE LEG, and with the trailing leg tucked up against his hip. The balance required to do that alone would be insane. He repped it a few times and racked it, never stumbled or strained once.
Ridiculous. Wish there was some footage, I'd love to see that.
There is footage, we saw several tapes from the training compiled of each cycle up to the competition phase. I was fortunate to have her as a teacher as she was the assistant to the usatf team, and we got access to stuff we wouldve otherwise not seen. Getting that footage to show here is next to impossible though, since it was over 10 years ago, and across the state.
Hah, too bad. Just the numbers themselves are mindblowing, I wonder how much more if you could see that on vid.
I still can't wrap my mind around the weight, really. Just shows you how strong you have to be to be elite. Definitely not just leverage and tendon length or what have you.
Exactly, at that level EVERYONE has gifts, training makes or breaks the winners. I will say that the guy doing the one leg squat with no support/box had VERY long tibia to femur ratios, making it easier to get the upper thigh to a parallel position. I dont think that exercise is mandatory at all, but it does give a glimpse into what kind of forces elites need to create off one leg, even on the strength end of the continuum.
