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I was at 67 kg up until 21 years old (when I weighed 64 kg). Skinny fat, no abs.

For me, I naturally have sucky pushing muscles (triceps, quads, chest, shoulders) and naturally good antagonists of these muscles (biceps, hamstrings, back) but at the same time, at least as far as the lowerbody goes, I USE the weak muscles more than the strong ones (since I'm in pretty excessive anterior pelvic tilt).

Also tiny wrists and ankles here and small chest. I have pretty beastly pulling strength, especially if I use a very narrow grip (maybe since that limits the contribution of the posterior deltoids?).

I'm not really taking creatine anymore, just every now and then, but I stopped about a week ago so I have no idea if it's out of the system or whatnot.

Considering all this, these are good reasons why I always thought you should be a good one-leg jumper and practice that instead of those ugly two-leg jumps... it stills remains a mystery to me why you're not. Obviously there are differences but you look to me like the kind of guy that has the potential to go up pretty good off one leg.

You have focused a ton on squats though without any calf or too much plyo work so...

We're pretty much have the same body apparently... I'm at 6'0, weigh ~85 kg (probably 86) and my waist is 89-90 cm.

You might have more upperbody muscle/strength (at least in the pushing muscles) and I might have more lowerbody muscle, and probably move overall muscle since I weigh a little more, but I might also have a bigger bodyfat... so... who knows?

What's the tempo on the deep squat?

Definitely looking good. Sometimes my form sucks with low weights, I get bored and just go through the motions... which is why sometimes the most dangerous weight is a low weight. You don't respect the weight = bad form = injury.

Maybe you should try some low weight snatch grip deadlifts, see how they feel. If you do them right they should do pretty well in glute development, especially if you prestretched the hip flexors before and you exaggerate that posterior pelvic tilt.

Just took back my negged votes on the pitbull posts.

1) what tends to be the problem when one's RVJ is virtually the same as SVJ, and maybe even lower?

2) what factors cause one's actual vertical to be so much lower than theoretical vj calculator?  Shorter than average height?  legs to torso ratio?

1) Calf strength and jumping movement efficiency (lack of practice of actual jumps to the rim, not plyos)
2) Lack of jumping movement efficiency. When you build strength you build POTENTIAL of better jumps. To use that potential you need to practice jumping.