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411? What kind of monster are you?

Some of those jumps look 40+ by how high your arm is over the rim, is that 10'?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NHRD10DmCc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NHRD10DmCc</a>

I started at 27 and have more than doubled my SVJ. Although to be fair I was almost intentionally de-training SVJ type qualities by running long distance (20km plus)  and being weak as fark (no strength training).

When I first read it I was like "oh man, this guy has a 54 inch vert!".

I don't think there's such a thing as a "typical" improvement, unless typical means "the guy reaches ~2.5x squat", since that's the squat value were more strength usually won't transfer too good to explosiveness. If you take a guy from a 0.7x squat and get him to 1.5x squat and he improves by 6 inches and stops his squat improvement to 1.5x instead of continuing to get it up to ~2.5, then how can you say that that's his near max ceiling of improvement?

So in reality you could say "your limit in terms of strength to SVJ improvement is probably a 2.5x squat" instead of throwing a number of inches or a % of the original SVJ around.

So if a guy has a 2.5x squat and jumps 26 inches, besides that he must be humongously unexplosive (and he should train that), then yes you could say that maybe the structure is very bad for jumping and therefore he doesn't have much ceiling to improvement.

But if you take formerly weak people, regardless of structure, with say a 1x untrained squat and get them to 2.5x, wouldn't you expect them to improve a lot? The only factor at that point becomes if they ARE ABLE to get to that ~2.5x number.

Maybe you're becoming more efficient at utilizing your current strength and then when you back off you lose that efficiency and fall back into using a lower % of your strength to apply in your jumps.

So either increase strength or keep on jumping.

So far:

Squat: 132 lbs x 5 to 435 lbs x 5
SVJ: ~27" to 36"

I got mine from ~20 inches to 30 while taking my squat from 80kgx5 (90 1RM) at 67 kg bodyweight to 120kgx5 (135 1RM) at 82 kg bodyweight. So as you can see that's a 10 inch increase in SVJ and I'm still under 2x in terms of squatting strength. Once and if I ever get to 2.5x I should have ~38-40.

So it's all a matter of strength, strength application and structure as the most important factors (if we're to ignore the factors I talked about in my previous post). So basically it depends IF you can increase your strength as far as a 2x-2.5x squat to reach your genetic limit more or less.