Dude,
I'm 36. Still jumping as high as when I was 25. Only difference is that I'm a lot heavier, and need to drop a lot of fat (I was heavy squatting in the Rippetoe era). Don't worry about age. Keep training, but don't force it, it will only lead to injury, I've been down that road. As long as you keep training, vert will improve. But take your time!
Also, in my humble opinion, full squatting isn't the only way to jump really high. There are tons of other exercises to achieve the same.
Keep it up
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As much as I agree with arnoud there are tons of workout, but as I adarq said in the sprint thread that simplicity is key, all you need are the basic strength workouts to develop strength, then power workouts to transfer that strength to power by doing plyometric or explosive workouts. But avoid being creative and doing any fancy workouts.
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As much as I agree with arnoud there are tons of workout, but as I adarq said in the sprint thread that simplicity is key, all you need are the basic strength workouts to develop strength, then power workouts to transfer that strength to power by doing plyometric or explosive workouts. But avoid being creative and doing any fancy workouts.
Hmmm interesting, Joel Smith does come up with many fancy workouts .....
x2 .. he utilizes some stuff from Schroeder, inno-sport, WGF, & gait guys, but he's not a full blown brainwashed cult member that's for sure. Joel seems to sprinkle some of those "fancy" exercises which he finds most effective, on top of the basics, which is why he will most likely continue to be successful. It's when people dive into the "magic" empty pool head first where they get destroyed. It's the reason I left the DB Hammer forum so long ago. I realized that forum was toxic poison, people becoming convinced of some system by some "artificial coach", training humans like they are intricate machines, using tons of protocols & exercises which have not been fully vetted or refined. Plus much of it drew from ideas created by Jay Schroeder and such. I'm sorry but I personally have a very hard time digesting ideas & concepts from someone who is a compulsive liar, no matter how good they sound. That DB Hammer forum was one of the worst things that happened to my brain as an athlete and at the time, a coach. /rant
The WGF Forum was even worse. That's where that LDISO fake coach promoted 5 minute isos all day long.
One day we'll probably uncover a plot by Putin to ruin American athletics, and his bread & butter: variations of isometrics & snakeoil salesmen.
I'm curious to see what Joel does with "overthehilldunker". The first video he dropped, looked very inno, which worries me a bit. But we'll see.. Hoping for success obviously.
As much as I agree with arnoud there are tons of workout, but as I adarq said in the sprint thread that simplicity is key, all you need are the basic strength workouts to develop strength, then power workouts to transfer that strength to power by doing plyometric or explosive workouts. But avoid being creative and doing any fancy workouts.
Hmmm interesting, Joel Smith does come up with many fancy workouts .....
Fancy workouts are good too when you need them. You almost certainly don't need them yet, though.
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some advanced fancy stuff like drops, high box depth jumps, single leg bounds, banded/chain accommodating resistance, can be very effective. Some less fancy stuff like low level reactive work can be very effective also, such as stiff leg pogos, MR tuck jumps, double leg bounds, line hop drills, med ball throw variations, plate swings, etc.
most people wouldn't even consider that fancy, because people are just inundated with fanciness everywhere. But to me, even those things fit somewhere in the fancy category. The basics for athletes, runners, jumpers, and sprinters are sport specific skill training (if applicable), basic lifts/strength exercises (bilateral lower body push (back/front squat), unilateral lower body push (lunge/bss/stepup), upper body push (bench/overhead press/dips), upper body pull (rows/pullups-chins-etc), and some assistance rdl/curl/calf raises etc), cardio, running, sprinting, jumping, and focusing on things like body composition, nutrition, sleep, progress tracking, nutrition timing, training timing, flexibility/mobility etc.. so, just some fundamentals and learning how to put them together for ones self & ones life constrained to things like school, job, family, responsibilities etc. A good coach can definitely help, but most of us on forums like this don't have a coach and probably don't want one, there's a "figuring it out" aspect that lots of people enjoy. Also, obviously there is room for adjustment and inclusion/exclusion of some things in the exercise department, specific to ones sport/goals etc, but to dive into routines which comprise a majority of "fancy stuff" without having a good understanding of improving these basics, is a major problem IMHO.
so when I speak about fancy stuff, it's pretty much anything that falls out of that tiny core framework. The thing is, that core framework is so important. People want to rush into the "fancy stuff" without addressing their sleep patterns, nutrition, timing, core lifts, etc. This is where S&C falls apart in my opinion. That core framework has so much potential for growth it's incredible. Really drilling down on it and figuring out how things fit together, per individual, is just so incredibly important. Everyone wants to do the fun stuff, but IMHO, from what i've seen and experienced, it's the mastery of the mundane which gets you the real results. Monotony, mundane, boring, those are important attributes of good routines it seems.
edit: I'm guilty of many of the things I mentioned above!! I've also gotten it "right" a few times, and when I get it right, it's usually pretty simple (definitely monotonous) with nearly everything falling in to place.
dno went off on some tangents.
pc!
