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I can, if my knees are straight. Once they start to approach a half-squat depth, getting the glutes to fired requires a tremendous amount of effort. Like, actively thinking about that happening like crazy. No wonder my half squat sucks.

On the other hand, the glute recruitment becomes better if I just push the hips back, like in a RDL. But once the knees bend (knees travel forward) as in a jump or half squat, the glutes are being turned off.

It's really, really weird.

When I jump off two, for example for a jumpshot, I feel 100% quad. No glute no nothing. In fact, my two leg jump with a ball in hand looks and feels horrible, for a jumpshot. And when I land I feel like crashing. I basically just bend at the knees and jump, the hips don't do anything.

So how can I be quad dominant in a jump and yet suck at half squatting? Doesn't make any sense. Unless I have weak quads and even weaker posterior chain, so the CNS is like "well OK, let me choose a knee bend since the quads are a bit stronger".

But then shouldn't I be better at half squats, like high bar squats (although it's a serious flexiblity issue there that is limiting me) and suck at deadlifts?

Really weird.

Well I've done everything by the book. You tell me how the same ratio is maintained despite increases in bodyweight? Sounds like a genetic thing to me.

Remember, my "natural" VJ back when I was 15 was "wow I touched the net" level off one leg (12 inches) and I didn't know a two-leg jump was even possible. That's the genetics I was served up with.

Dem glucocorticoid levels...

Well of course it is. But it's depressing to think that stuff is more into the realm of genetics than it is in the realm of actual training effects. To get a training effect would mean, IMO, to do a tremendous amount of volume of plyometric work, a stuff that athletic/high jump coaches here in Romania do abide by.

Same thing with becoming a reactive "dunker" - go the Jordan Kilganon or Kadour Ziani "non stop dunking/dunk or die" route. But only those whose genetics were "right" to begin with will be able to go that route without getting injured, because someone with faulty mechanics/"bad structure" for jumping will take in so much damage from high volume jumping (using those bad mechanics combined with a bad structure) that they will get injured before any positive training effects will become noticeable.

It's really depressing when you think about it.

Pace : ~5m / km

5 meters/kilometer?

 

BTW... you do jumps after running one mile? Are you nuts?

What is the programming language that vag wrote that stuff into? C? Cause it sure as heck ain't looking like Java.

Would having a boner affect the center of gravity hence increasing the leverage against the spine putting the spine at risk?

Something to think about.