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My favorite MJ vid
Analysis: he kicked ass because he was 6'6', ran a 4.3 40 in college, had enormous hands, and jumped high as shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWvxijHNWB4
You really can't go wrong with hanging leg lift progressions like in this article:
http://www.dragondoor.com/articler/mode3/329/
That vid of you and Eddie is impressive. I think you get up higher and jump with more power, but he looks like he's barely even trying.
Rearfoot running usually coincides with lack of glute activation/overactive quads. When your pelvis isn't inherently in an optimal position and you try to run on the balls of your feet there's a ton more force involved then if your pelvic position was optimized. If you ever get a chance, try doing about a 30 minute walk up a slight incline, focusing on contracting your glutes. The next day see if you notice a difference in how you walk and how your foot inherently hits the ground. Also have you ever worked much on hip flexor strengthening? Given your body structure that in combo with glute activation work (which I know you're already doing), usually does good things.
I think you're also getting a form of neural stimulation with the sprints. I think I wrote about it before way back when. If you're a bball player and you go out and do some top speed sprints beforehand (minutes or even a day), it makes everything taking place on the bball court seem slower and jumps seem easier. The problem is they can also contribute more to fatigue, so not everyone is in position to take advantage of them.
ok, after the first week of the HFPSE (high frequancy pistol squat experiment) I can say I'm quite satisfied:
now I perform the pistol a little bit fluently and max 5 reps (I've never do it before) but I've a little pain in the lumbar region, exactly in correspondence to the spine.
A question for the experts: is there a relationship between full squat and pistol? I mean: if one knows, for example, that his max squat is 240 lbs, could him calculate his max pistol with kettlebells and vie versa?
I hope I explained it well.
saluti.
it would make total sense if there were NO bands...
if he was trying to eliminate the concentric, unfortunately, he'd have to have spotters help each rep up, or just do a negative and hit pins, re-rack it, repeat..
the reverse band setup is practically pulling that bar off his back on the way down.. it's canceling out the effect of those weight releasers..
Yeah the bands do look like they're too strong in the video cause it looks like he's pulling the thing down with him, but if he had 110% of his max on the bar or something then he could have had the weight releasers to cancel out the effect of the bands on the way down and on the way up the band would help him lift it back up. Down part=weight of bar+(weight releasers-bands=0) up part=weight of bar-bands?
Andrew, you're the type of crazy I could only dream of being. Just reading about all of these 400s is making me sick.
Go get it man, that sub 50 will be yours.
Got it- I thought there was some discussion over here or something directly related to your training. Now that I've switched to 400m I will be very interested to see what you can accomplish if you do ever start competing
roger nelsen jr is my hero
his ideas on 400s aare dead on.. the more i improve on them the higher i am going to jump, as long as i keep squatting/jumping.. improving squat & getting to sub 50 400 is my goal.. ;d
I must have missed this conversation- can you explain why RJ thinks improving your 400 will boost your vertical? Sub 50 is very very legitimate time, if you could do that will a couple months worth of sprinting then I'd say you have some serious talent...
