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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 03, 2014, 10:11:32 am »
***One last point about specialization. You should not underestimate the unfortunate lack of carry over that happens when you become a specialist. You have put a lot of work into your squat... If you take someone who hardly squats and he has similar bw to squat ratios... He will almost always be faster/stronger/etc. Getting good at something unfortunately means it starts to provide less aid in similar movements. You are now a specialized squatter and jumper. So your 34 inch jump (or whatever your PR is) will translate to a lot less when you have to jump at an odd angle, weird plant , in traffic, or simply without the mental queuing that you have learned to do before you jump in practice... Your old 25 inch jump translated a lot better because you hadn't yet reached a level of specialization... The guy who had trained his vertical from 15 to 25 inches probably saw your 25 inch jump and wondered why he couldn't use his 25 inch jump to rise up on his shot, block shots, etc. It's an unfortunate thing that happens when we get really good at something..... but hey it's because you have finally gotten some athleticism !
What does this mean? The more you train your vertical in a certain way, the less it translates in other types of vertical jumps?
kind of. the more you groove a certain pattern for any skill, the farther the gap between your proficiency using that pattern and using any other pattern. t0ddday talked about watching jesse williams, who is a world-champion high jumper, jump around on a basketball court. off two legs or off a normal run up of any kind he could dunk weakly at best. but if he takes his normal high jump approach and then does a rim jump he can pretty much hit his head on the rim. that pattern is just sooooo much more efficient for him than anything else.
it's not that getting better at something one way translates less to other ways, it just means the gap grows. another example: imagine you're a chef and you get really good at chopping vegetables with your right hand. you can do that emeril shit where he's just going nuts and looks like a machine. but your left hand is only as good at chopping as it ever was, or maybe it's a little bit better but it hasn't kept pace with your right. similar idea here.
at the very least i'm gonna remeasure today. my waist and thighs are definitely bigger now than they were in my post there.
