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http://www.strengthandconditioningresearch.com/2012/09/11/bilateral-deficit/

I found this very interesting:

Basically saying that you need to really be rested (have close to 100% "battery" or CNS) if you really want to perform off one leg, whereas bilateral stuff requires less peak intensity but more overall CNS burn.

Even more, since we're trying to improve the neural drive and "explosiveness" during our plyo workouts, it should make more sense to use unilateral plyometric exercises since the most neural drive occurs during these movements.

Anyway,

What did the researchers conclude?

The researchers concluded that the ground reactions force produced by each leg during the two-legged jump were less than that produced during the one-leg jump. This was caused by lower joint moments.

The researchers concluded that while it is possible that the lower joint moments in the two-leg jump were smaller than those in the one-leg jump because of reduced neural drive, peak EMG levels in the two-leg jump were only slightly lower than those in the one-legged jump. They therefore suggest that a reduction in neural drive is unlikely to be the cause of the reduced moments.

Rather, the researchers suggest that because some of the muscles must have shortened at higher velocities in the two-legged jump, this caused them to produce lower forces because of the force-velocity relationship. They note that this was the result produced by their computer simulation, as enforcing the same muscle-shortening velocities in both jump variations eliminated 75% of the difference in jump height.

And then people come in and say I only care about the number of my posts!!!

I did it for you... oh Adarqui!

Interesting. That would be the exact opposite of what the KB swing is "made for".

Trust me... there's no comparison between a kettlebell and a plate swing... such a big difference and so MUCH (feels like triple or so with the same weight) more eccentric loading on the kettlebell variation.

By the way - take it easy on those depth drops/depth jumps before squatting. You don't want high volumes of them, especially high depth drops which have an inhibatory effect on the CNS after you do them.

Basically if you go with something like 3x5 low to medium box depth jumps you should be fine before squatting.

I personally go with 2-3x5 low box depth jumps (usually for short ground contacts) and then do something like 2x5 jump squats with a reset in between each rep (so no rhythmical), and then go on with my squat routine.

Quote from: Raptor on September 23, 2012, 06:09:13 pm

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I can get them here in Romania.

I love those shoes, I dont know how to convert the price though to tell if its fair or not.

They're ~120 $

I'm limited to eastbay unfortunately.

OK so I have the option of buying these:

http://www.eastbay.com/product/model:178808/sku:24382/adidas-adi-power-weight-lift-mens/red/white/?cm=searchmenstrainingshoes

and these

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Obviously a huge price difference. Any experience with any of them/comments?