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How is your 1RM 55 kg, when you can squat 60 kg for 5 reps?

60x5 gives you a projected 1RM of 68 kg according to http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/OneRepMax.html

ass tall as me

Boy, would I love to see that!

Quote from: Raptor on February 15, 2011, 02:56:32 am

Well yeah, you don't. He's more of a unilateral jumper (like, much more) and the special thing about him are probably his tendons/tendon stiffness, but he also has great strength. It depends on how you define "strength" though. I mean, he was doing stepups with 200 kg at 70 kg bodyweight.

He's very technically sound and has extremely good take-in put-out elastic ability.

Yeah I know he's very strog (especially at step-ups) So he would most likely be good at the standing jumps, but he isn't. So imo it's not very much relation between the standing jumps and the ones with a run-up. Although, it's probably just a benefit being good at both! 

(His tendon stiffness is a result of the training he's been doing though the years, and not something he was born with)

Well know you're quoting that german documentary that compared Holm with Donald Thomas. You can choose to believe them or you can choose not to believe them. Just because they say it's not a natural born ability doesn't really mean it's written in stone and that they are absolutely true.

But yeah, jumps and plyos will stiffen your tendons. You still want some tendons to be stiff and some to be compliant. It's just important which are which.

Anyway, good step-up strength is specific to the one leg jump not the standing jump (when it comes to angles, muscle involvement etc) so they hardly correlate to the standing jump. Also, he's probably so used to the prestretch and preactivation using a high speed amortization phase that he isn't fond at all of using a slower/more muscle bound jump like a standing VJ. At the same time, there's more quad involved in a standing VJ than posterior chain, and that's probably a reason as well (he probably has a better developed posteroir chain than quads).

Yeah, whenever I see Daminez do these flips I'm like oh man, if I'd be able to do these I'd probably be flying.

Whenever I think about Kingfish's potential it boggles my mind. But I still don't get - why do you use such a high % of your 1RM. I mean, I understand the talk about the controlled amortization phase, but do you plan to use less (say 30%) and get off with that (jump up with it)? Heck, you could use even less if it bothers your back or do DJs and it's going to help.

I can't, so I demand disrespect from everybody. No excuses!

WTF? Oh boy, I need to stop squatting then!

Or better yet, I need to stop getting heavy!

Lance was hinting towards hamstring differences. He said to Nightfly he should do leg curls with feet pointed in different directions (inside or outside) to fix that.