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Damn, PR tie off four? Never tried jumping off all four

Anyway, it seems your strength is carrying over to your jumping more and more. Sounds like improvements in movement efficiency to me.

you mean you've never seen a picture of me before?



 

also, yes, definitely major improvements in movement efficiency.

WEIGHT: 178
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: tired but great

- warm up

- SVJ x a few
PR, first-ever rim touch off SVJ. 

- DLRVJ x a bunch
PR tie off four, ~36, near base of palm. holding the ball was fucking me up, though, could not get a dunk with miniball. damn it.

- SLRVJ x a few
meh, a few rim touches and a few screwy jumps.

YEEEEEEEEEHAW.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_GprOo4rj4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_GprOo4rj4</a>

commented in your journal already, but you noticed it: you're not keeping a rigid line from your shoulders to your knees. try keep that line up top by squeezing your glutes hard, then just accept that you won't be able to do a full rep without catching yourself on your hands. so catch yourself on your hands. i could pump out GHR reps all day leading with my butt but if i really focus on form i can barely get two. it's much, much harder.

neglected to log this on saturday 1/4:

WEIGHT: 176.5
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: meh

- warm up

- bunch of SVJ

- paused squat 255 x 3,3

- circuit x 3
-- DB RDL 70s x 10
-- inverted row x 12
-- DB OHP 40s x 10,8(+35 x 3)

- some other shit that i forget.

- stretch

Quote from: T0ddday on January 02, 2014, 08:40:15 pm

***One last point about specialization.   You should not underestimate the unfortunate lack of carry over that happens when you become a specialist.   You have put a lot of work into your squat...  If you take someone who hardly squats and he has similar bw to squat ratios... He will almost always be faster/stronger/etc.    Getting good at something unfortunately means it starts to provide less aid in similar movements.  You are now a specialized squatter and jumper.   So your 34 inch jump (or whatever your PR is) will translate to a lot less when you have to jump at an odd angle, weird plant , in traffic, or simply without the mental queuing that you have learned to do before you jump in practice... Your old 25 inch jump translated a lot better because you hadn't yet reached a level of specialization...   The guy who had trained his vertical from 15 to 25 inches probably saw your 25 inch jump and wondered why he couldn't use his 25 inch jump to rise up on his shot, block shots, etc.   It's an unfortunate thing that happens when we get really good at something..... but hey it's because you have finally gotten some athleticism !

What does this mean? The more you train your vertical in a certain way, the less it translates in other types of vertical jumps?

kind of. the more you groove a certain pattern for any skill, the farther the gap between your proficiency using that pattern and using any other pattern. t0ddday talked about watching jesse williams, who is a world-champion high jumper, jump around on a basketball court. off two legs or off a normal run up of any kind he could dunk weakly at best. but if he takes his normal high jump approach and then does a rim jump he can pretty much hit his head on the rim. that pattern is just sooooo much more efficient for him than anything else.

it's not that getting better at something one way translates less to other ways, it just means the gap grows. another example: imagine you're a chef and you get really good at chopping vegetables with your right hand. you can do that emeril shit where he's just going nuts and looks like a machine. but your left hand is only as good at chopping as it ever was, or maybe it's a little bit better but it hasn't kept pace with your right. similar idea here.