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I'm back! I'm almost done with PT and just began jumping again, but my ankle still feel sore. The surgery was a 100% success . My standing vertical has fallen to 23.5" from 10 months of inactivity/atrophy and my running vertical has fallen to 26.5". My left leg currently has a standing vertical jump of 19" and my right leg has a standing vertical jump of...9". So, basically, my right leg is doing nothing at the moment. My PT tested my single leg broad jumps for both my limbs and said that my broad jump with my left leg was the furthest distance she ever measured! Any tips for such asymmetry? Thanks!

Btw, LBBS, how has that arthritis affected your training and VJ aspirations?

I actually emailed my doc a few days ago and think I pissed him off. Hopefully he doesn't mess me up lol.

Quote from: alestor91 on August 26, 2015, 03:12:20 pm

Bad news guys. i went to the top ankle ortho in Chicago and he told me that my two deep deltoid ligaments are totally torn and my posterior tibial tendon is degenerating. I will be getting surgery in two weeks and the recovery will take a year...

god damn. how did that happen?

The deltoid ligament complex in the ankle is actually made up of 4 ligaments: 2 superficial and 2 deep ligaments. The two deep ones were completely torn, but the radiologist simply noted this as a "partial tear" because all four deltoid ligaments were not torn. My new ankle ortho, upon viewing the actual MRI, said that this confused my old ortho and explained that the deep deltoid ligaments are the most important ligaments in the ankle...if they are completely torn, surgery is needed. He said that the posterior tibial tendon gets more load and degenerates if the foundation (deltoid ligaments) of the ankle is compromised and said that he would need to clean out the inflamed synovium surrounding that tendon as well. Apparently if left untreated, I could have developed a flat foot due to the degeneration of the posterior tibial tendon. He said I should make a good recovery though with time. Thanks for asking.

I had a dexa scan to measure my body fat % and it was 19%...This is probably because I've never worked out. I don't think I've ever been under 15% in my life. The breakdown of body fat per body part is as follows:

Glutes-29% bf
Hamstrings-23% bf
Calves-23% bf
Lower back-21% bf
Quads-18% bf
Biceps-16% bf
Triceps-15% bf
Abs-14% bf
Chest-13% bf
Forearms-13% bf

Very interesting to say the least...

it's hard to say man. everything happens pretty quickly but there's not much to show how high you're getting. it looks like your approach is really inefficient: you seem to be shuffling your feet at the end and taking a little hop step before you plant. approach should be a smooth acceleration into the plant.

watch me at 0:23 and 1:15 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaiZOr-tOcw

then watch scooby here: http://www.adarq.org/progress-journals-experimental-routines/scooby-2011-journal/msg104719/#msg104719.

see the difference? i'm not wasting any steps, each step i take adds speed, but not so much that i collapse or can't convert it into the jump. scooby got way better after this -- and i used to jump like that, too -- but in this vid he's chopping his feet and it's ruining his shit. read through the comments from me and chris and others about his approach over the next few pages of his journal.

How to I elongate my penultimate step and increase my speed at takeoff? Thanks!

kind of impossible to tell there because of the angle and the speed.

but your feet pointed downward at some point, which means you have calves, so that's good.

Does my jump look explosive and fast?