t0ddday, help me out here. can't articulate a response to that well enough to try.
WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: left soleus (?)
MENTAL STATE: blah
- warm up
- MB OH toss x 5,5; no step x 3,3
- LTMP squat 155 x 20
weird combination of easy and hard. made it to 20 without much difficult but don't know how many more i could have done. racked it the interest of protecting my back, which felt okay today but which was out of sorts yesterday.
- superset x 3
-- pull up x 5
-- dip x 5
-- TTB x 5
pretty weak workout all around. fuck it.
LTMP or MEBM? seems like beast mode.
confused why you think submax repetitions of an exercise impair movement efficiency. how do you learn a new skill, except by doing it with less than full effort until you're comfortable enough with it to push yourself?
But you're not learning a new skill. You're already pretty far along in your jumping movement efficiency and have done tons of max effort jumps (already comfortable doing max effort jumps). I think a submax jump might have subtly different mechanics from a max effort jump, which is why I think they might be ineffective as movement efficiency work. Once you've progressed past the point of beginner movement efficiency gains, what's the point?
I have seen people on the forum encourage submax jumps and they seem good on the one hand cause you can spare your cns/joints but I don't know how much they actually help improve
one answer could just be 'fun'.. get some jumps in, staying nice and relaxed, just enjoying it. If you jumped submax most sessions, and max effort for only some, then yes I think your point would be more valid; detrimental. Part of the skill of jumping is to learn to focus on producing force 'fast' in the first place, don't want to teach yourself to produce force slowly. But one session, or infrequent sessions, aren't going to be enough to be detrimental imho. I mean just look at it from the point of view of tempo sprints, submax running etc. They can still be used as tools to build work capacity, fitness, movement efficiency, and even qualities specific to max performance (cardiovascular development in running for example). So IMHO, the same applies for jumping.
I've personally been doing lots of submax jumping the last few months for a few reasons:
- i just love jumping, feels good to jump even if it isn't maximal
- want to focus more on 'relaxed max jumping sessions', ie, how high can i get if i don't amp myself up mentally (amping myself up mentally takes a toll on me)? similar to a TRAINING MAX in lifting -> max lifting without psyche ups/amp ups.
- need to improve SLRVJ as a skill in each leg
one thing I try to do when jumping submax, is still get off the ground fast.. For where i'm at right now, It's the difference between a 10'3-10'4 or 10'8.. so I lose ~4-5" when jumping submaximally: relaxed runup, relaxed jump but get off the ground fast/fast but smooth arm swing, no amp up. I can probably perform hundreds of those jumps, compared to only ~10 or so max effort jumps.
pc!
