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« on: January 07, 2011, 04:55:23 am »
Yeah probably squatting high bar or with partials is OK for one-leg jumpers as long as the volume of jumping is enough to maintain the form on the jumps (hip dominant) and not allow it to regress to a quad-dominant form because of weight training. There's still a big difference in movement and dynamics between jumping and strength work so only high volumes of quad-dominant strength work and low volumes of correct jumping probably can create that hip to quad dominant transition.
I assume you prefer a ROM that is specific to the jump ROM off one leg in terms of box height. Unfortunately, I don't have boxes in my gym (or any gym I can think of), I only have benches and if I'm to do them on the bench, that's ~ parallel depth.
Why do you favor the barbell variant vs. the pistol box squat variant with the weight held in hands in front of the body? I think one reason, if I'm to dig in, is that with the bar on the back there's even more weight on the back of the body so more glute/PC overload and another reason is that holding a weight in the arms in front of you can cause back problems.
Interestingly (and I need to film it) - I'm limited by shoulder strength with pistol box squats. I can hold a 25 kg plate at chest level and do a deep pistol box squat on my left leg, and it really feels extremely PC dominant (probably looks like that also, remember that pistol squat video of me) but I just can't hold that plate up there for more than a few seconds since my delts die after that so...
That's why maybe I should do both barbell single leg box squats in a workout and pistol box squats in another as a SPP thing.
PS. I need to film my cleans again... form is horrid.