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Quote from: Raptor on February 10, 2011, 02:05:14 am

Quote from: Eric on February 09, 2011, 09:06:02 pm

btw raptor i read the article, please dont try to debunk it, cuz youll get owned by him

I might like it.

There are other OBVIOUS reasons why you leg press much more than you squat and I don't think quad strength has anything to do with it, or if it does, then it's a far away factor in terms of importance.

yea, raptor is right.  The fact that you are leg pressing the weight at an ANGLE, not vertically, reduces the load immensely in itself, then factor in that youre not lifting your bodyweight, then factor in joint angles, rom, etc, and you cant compare loads in leg press/squat accurately at all.

Exactly. Quad strength is not an important factor at all vs these^^^

There's also no need to stabilize the weight and the weight point of pressure is on the hips/low back vs upperback, meaning you have a shorter lever in terms of weight application vs your body.

I mean, imagine if you had the same legs but your torso is 30 feet tall. If you put a bar on your back with the same weight you're squatting now, it's going to feel immense because it's so hard to stabilize a bar that is so far away from the point where the tension is generated (hips/legs).

Same goes with leg length. If you have a very long femur you're going to need a much higher strength base to stabilize the knee in a jump than a guy with a shorter femur.

I just have a theory, based on nothing than just plain good-ol' right side of the brain intuition, that high rep work helps elasticity. I just can't really explain why, but I feel like high rep lunges or high rep squats (say 20-50 reps per set) help elasticity (elasticity as gains during reactive movements like running one-leg jumps or running two-footed jumps). What do you think?

Well, you're going to need a lot of money for so many roids.

Quote from: Raptor on February 08, 2011, 04:44:02 pm

Dave Tate on box squatting:

http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/training-articles/efs-classic-squatting-from-head-to-toe/

The love of the box squat comes from the fact that it allows WPO powerlifting guys to mimic a competition squat while lifting in training without the suit.

It does have some uses with athletes though. It's very useful for teaching lankier guys who can't squat easily to load the posterior chain.

He says a lot of bullshit in that article though. Like, the quads are not that important for squats because if they were, we'd all be using leg press weights in the squats. I mean, you don't need me to start debunking that, right?

Interesting volume to intensity transition...

Quote from: Raptor on January 20, 2011, 08:22:43 am

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Quote from: taylorhorton on January 13, 2011, 09:47:34 am

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Raptor

I use this:



Take a good luck at that picture, you're going to need it after you see me jump!

185 kg x 5 reps = 208 kg 1RM according to http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/OneRepMax.html