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I think this definitely holds some water, it's nice to know someone else is concerned about sleep positions too.  The hip angles definitely play a role, but I don't think it will make or break your athleticism unless your tightness is very bad.  If anything it'll change the way you'll have to warm up and cool down, with different emphasis on flexibility.

I would like to add though that you could look at your hip/waist position from a different point of view, literally.  I usually sleep on my left side (on my hip), and it seems this causes lateral flexion of my waist, which in turn seems to make my right side more tight, and more prone to contract during movements, or in maintenance of posture.

--This is just a hypothesis however, it may be just due to the fact my right leg is my fast leg(and dominant), and that portion of the waist/hip would naturally be tighter.

What I'm more concerned about is sitting in school all day, my glute activity is horrible, my god.  It sucks, I try to find an excuse during my classes to stand up a lot so I can squeeze them butt cheeks lol.

I like the fact that he doesn't say don't deadlift, because that would ruin the validity of the article.  He is correct in that deadlifts are draining, but I don't like the fact thgeat he says "deadlift workouts".  That would imply the workout is all deadlifting and is centered on only increasing your deadlift, and that is not what an athlete should, unless if we're talking powerlifters.  Other than that, the article seems alright (I like the fact he points out that you should drop your deadlifts, that's a very good training tool), but if I were a trainee reading this (I am actually) I would keep deadlifting if it works for me.  I've been squatting and deadlifting for a while, for like 4 years ever since a powerlifter at the gym taught me.  I'm willing to bet I've squatted twice as often as I've deadlifted, but I am much better at deadlifting.  For me deadlifting is ridiculously easy compared to squatting, doesn't matter what stance, conventional, sumo, semisumo, snatch grip, trap bar, etc.  The bottom line is, if they work well for you, do em, if they don't then limit them to an extent, and cut them out if you can put on huge ass poundages.  Even if deadlifts didn't work well with me, I would still keep using some sumo stance deadlifts and trap bar deadlifts in my training.

Yo, what up, I'm a HS sophomore baller from Michigan.  That's pretty much as far as I'll go in terms of giving personal info.

So I've been researching about different training methods for basketball, vertical jump training, strength training etc. for a long time, but I've never seen a forum with so much good info before.  I'm an aspiring S&C coach just to let y'all know.

I'm not gonna spend time posting stats and stuff, cuzz honestly, they suck (at best maybe like 25in. full approach vert. touching rim on a good day).  I'm a weak son of a b****.  I've read a lot about training, read stuff like the VJB, stuff from Defrancostraining, and some stuff by Jacob Hiller and Adam Linkwhatever and TONS of other coaches/trainers that are affiliates, cuz they spam like hell on my email.  The latter 2 I've dropped from my resources, because I've never actually learned anything from them.

Anyways, yeah, that's me.  Might or might not post too much on forums, but this place is pretty damn cool.