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Blehhhh! It was bound to happen, shitty day lol! Spent all morning out in the heat with the kids and I believe it drained me not to mention my shoes got soaked and I developed a blister on the bottom of my left big toe. Add to that a 90+ degree gym and my SuperFly 2s popping the right zoom insole, and my left knee flaring up (I think its patellar tendinitis)..... I was completely devoid of motivation today.

All said I still took some video and I'll be damned if I didn't get super pissed at myself halfway through and had a handful of decent jumps lol! I'll post up the video later. Much stretch. Lots of ice.

I have to agree with Acole on this! I get very mild cases from time to time when I jump a ton in a short span (think days on end with no rest). whats always worked is scaling back jumping/pylos and, depending in severity, lightening work load in the weight room. Full out rest sounds good in theory but ive had better results personally using the methods acole suggested.


Strong post Acole!

Not bad for a first try with multiple new techniques!

It looks like to me you're slowing down still in the last step and plant, almost like you're thinking about it too much, which is probably true since its new. Few ways to combat this...one, keep going and trying to increase speed as it feels more natural (which to me only screams problems/injury) or try Toddays approach that worked/is working for LBSS. Start off at one step into your plant and drill that til it becomes second nature, then add another step. I think this would be a smarter, safer way as it allows your body to adjust accordingly and limits possible injury (imo) from doing something unnatural at high speed


Since I know Raptor will see this I'll equate it to a car...

When I go out on a new setup to the drag strip I dont go for broke the first pass (or second, third, etc). First passes are usually with the power turned down just to see how the car reacts, on the launch with suspension,  traction, tires, down the track with the gearbox, chassis and alignment and brakes, etc. This allows me to fine tune the car without risking a potential large mishap due to something simple that became big when we started leaning on it.


Just my 2 pennies tho.

Yea....I'm an idiot.  For some reason I always jump to his coaching at Kansas.

My brain and I are not cooperating lately

Yea he was Canadian but he founded the sport in Kansas...can't get much more 'Merica' than Kansas.

Makes sense. My thoughts are leaning towards a few reps of grip training during warmups and only strap up for a heavy single or workset. Best of both worlds maybe? I'm with you on the RDLs for PC work primarily,  and since I'm quad dominant any missed reps on PC work is double the trouble.

Ive been mulling this for over a week now and look at that, I get on adarq and boom! Questions answered. Time to find my straps!

They aren't unbeatable but....it won't be easy. You have to remember that we invented this sport and on the whole we're still a few steps ahead of the rest of the world. Take a glance at the NBA, it's the pinnacle of basketball and while there are several foreign born players look how many are 'stars'. Now take that number...divide it across the rest of earth's countries and you have 1 or 2 all stars vs a team of all stars and future HOF'ers. It's easy to see why we are dominant in that regard.

The world is closing the gap it seems and pretty soon we won't be able to send 'b' level stars and waltz our way to a gold.