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wait what is vmo?

I think though that the second leg uses more quad because there seems to be more knee flexion. Not just quad, but more achilles as well; I know this is true for me the way I jump because I feel the soreness the following day. And it makes the most sense if you think about doing a 360, dunk, or 720, whatever. The quads of the second leg plays the role of diverting the body in the desired direction, i'm sure someone has done an in depth analysis or something, wish I had it in my hands, haha
How do you know when to progress from alternating bounds to single leg repeats?

wk 2 , 3 main squatting days the 5x1 at 85, 90, and 95% max completed, feeling the fatigue a good amount today, but the weight was still a little easier than last week
jumping pretty low today
my bud lu who is doing it with me, actually felt more energetic today, last week the first week of it i was feeling more energetic, this week i'm feeling fatigued he's feeling more energetic
THis is definitely what I'm most interested at the present moment; I actually perform mental training on all non-training days, for around 10 minutes minimum, and I've thought of more unique exercises to perform, but haven't seen significant strength gains or anything. THe only time I noticed a different was when I did a lot of trampoline trianing in my head, a lot of overspeed training using springboards, trampolines, other bouncy platforms, and my SVJ became a lot faster with minimal ROM.
What I'd like to see is these studies performed on trained athletes who have already learned to recruit 90%+ of their muscle fibers. In untrained ppl it makes sense to see these gains, but I wonder if it's possible to see gains in MUSCLE through mental training. What if we could trick the body into building more muscle by thinking about it. That would be really cool.
I agree that it's a great exercises, but I'm sure there are others that involve higher forces than full sprinting. How about Single leg squat jumps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q33pqu-zRas
I love what Christie is doing at 50 seconds in, that's a sweet drill