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In my opinion, your best bet is to decrease the weight and go with more reps. More reps mean more volume for both your legs, and less weight means your weak leg won't have as much overload and will "try" to keep up. You need to stop your set when the weak leg starts to give up.

You just know she's lying 

So your squat is pretty much 3x, but your VJ is ~34. It would be interesting to see what's your vert when you're fully recovered... any idea when that's possible? You seem to be loaded a lot with training lately.

Well my point was it's still muscle-dependent and not tendon dependent. Tendon stiffness comes into play only if you have the strength to make that happen. And I still feel it's not a tendon matter but a muscular one, as the MUSCLES will be able to generate more power sensing you're "heavier" because of the acceleration to the ground.

So it comes down to the muscle and not the tendon.

What's your VJ at this point?

We always hear about the reactive effect as being a spring like movement etc, but let's talk about a countermovement jump vs a paused jump. A countermovement jump will usually be higher.

In my opinion, the only real difference is not a spring like effect of any kind, the only difference in reality is the fact that the muscles get loaded more because the body weight increases as you lower and stop yourself from lowering.

The same thing occurs in a high vs even higher speed plant. The faster you go, the more strength you need to amortizate your body because your bodyweight * acceleration (plant speed) = the total amount of weight that needs to be amortizated. And if you can take in that weight, the muscles (previously enabled eccentrically to stop you from crushing into the ground) remain activated for the concentric part of the movement too, if it's done quickly.

I think that's all there is to it in reality. I keep on hearing about all this "spring" thing and I think that's erroneous and makes people fail to understand the real thing that is going on.

Now the only counter-example to this is the Olympic lifter that jumps a lot from a standstill and sucks coming off a run. I think in that situation it's a matter of technique (where technique = failing to understand/apply the proper body position to produce the maximum amount of force, and to be the most easy to amortizate, from). Also, the adaptations over time for the O-Lifters require them to generate "standstill" acceleration from a horizontally neutral position, hence their preferred "stopped" position for developing power.

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Quote from: Raptor on February 28, 2011, 05:45:59 pm

I feel like I want to kiss adistarhj. Is that wrong? Illegal, yes, I know, but wrong?

Quote from: Raptor on March 01, 2011, 01:03:57 pm

So you think she's a child? She seems "mature enough" to me. I don't think chronological age is THAT important. It's what's behind the carcass that's important. Whatever, getting into philosophy again.

keep attacking the U.S. bro, good shit.

You need to learn some humor, mister.