A long penultimate usually will mean a low penultimate as well. It's in the search of "low" that you do that long step, and pretty much everybody else does IMO. If you reach out with your leg forward you will automatically lower your center of gravity as well.
What if you get your penultimate LOWER instead of longer? It might be better as there will be less breaking effect due to length, that is currently occuring.
Check 3:40 here where he talks about seeing the shirt in the mirror. I can't really do that, I can barely lift my chest enough to see my chest in the mirror, meaning my chest is almost parallel to the ground:
This also happens when I jump. When I plant off two legs, VOLUNTARILY trying to throw my feet forward in front on my body (otherwise I have the tendency to put both my legs straight under me like in a one-leg jump), my upperbody automatically bends forward as in an effort to try to stabilize the center of mass, and from there everything messes up.
The people I see that jump very well are the people that can plant with the feet in front of the body and kind of sinked into the hips with the torso almost erect (as in sitting in a chair basically) but because they have good approach speed in the plant they don't fall on the back but instead go up.
For me it's more a matter of preventing myself on falling on the back, on the heels, and thus bending forward at the waist. I want to correct that in both the deadlift and the jump.
How can I correct that? I don't even know the the nature of the problem is: flexibility, bad mechanics (using the wrong muscles in the wrong places), or just a mental thing that forces me to take into account these possible scenarios and make me get into these positions.
It's really weird and I lose tons of inches in my VJ. Even in my SVJ you can see that I go a bit down at the hips, knees bend forward BUT MY TORSO GOES DOWN and comes close to being parallel with the ground.
So instead just going down as in a squat with a torso as much as vertical as possible, I do a goodmorning and jump opening up my chest instead of using the legs.
I have a quick question that is VERY important for me to solve as of this moment: what is required in terms of flexibility for someone to be able to get in a low squat position without bending forward at the waist? As in to keep the torso erect and vertical, as much as perpendicular to the ground as possible?
Also, where do you need to be flexible to do a proper below parallel overhead squat?
As of this moment, whenever I jump off two feet I always (ALWAYS) bend a lot at the waist and jump forward or collapse into the jump (and no, I'm not overanalyzing, this is a serious issue). I look at a lot of people and they're always able to throw their legs forward and keep a vertical torso and jump, I can't do that. And my two footed jump suffers immensly because of that. It's also very frustrating.
So any ideas? What's the flexibility limitation that keeps on forcing me to bend forward at the waist (also happens in the deadlift, I can't keep a vertical torso to save my life or my spine - in a deadlift my torso is almost parallel instead of perpendicular to the ground).
You had a really loooong and a bit to the side penultimate step, interesting. I think going a bit to the side is your way of lowering the center of gravity a bit more.
I can find myself (and other friends of mine) completely in what k6mi says. A friend of mine fell down and hit his tibia on a wooden stick with blood and all that, and the doc said it was bursitis. And all kinds of crazy shit.
yea, all those years of education, those guys have no clue. just put some injuries/chronic issues down on some strips of paper, fold them up and put them in a hat. Use your 15 year old education and mind and draw one out, convince yourself thats exactly whats wrong with you, then ask how to treat that on an internet forum. Yall are right, wtf was i thinking... doctors,,,, smh.
Go to the doctor, see what it is for sure. Could be jumpers knee, could be something worse, you have no idea until you get it looked at, dont try to self diagnose.
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