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I really really have no idea what they're talking about.

Maybe they mean the other leg acts as a stabilizer or something. Doesn't make sense at all.

In a single leg press the other legs does... nothing. Maybe some irradiation generated contraction or whatever but that's silly.

That's interesting. Let me tell you about my hams (sexy, I know) something equally interesting:

They really are strong, that's a fact. When I do my single leg leg curls, they are pretty much equal in terms of strength, speed of movement etc with the same weight. When I do hip extension stuff like straight leg one-leg deadlifts or lunges or step-ups, WEIRDLY I can do them much better on my right leg. That doesn't make any sense. The right leg is obviously weaker but if anything, it's really really weaker quad-wise and not posterior chain wise.

The left leg has much stronger and bigger quads (especially VMO) from the thousands of jumps I've done off it. And when I do lunges or step-ups, I feel so much better off the right leg because it probably hasn't been programmed to be quad dominant. Instead, if I jump off my right leg I bend at the knee like crazy and I'm 100% (or whatever) pure quad in that jump (~20 inch jump off right leg).

Really intersting. Glute dominant on strength exercises and quad dominant on jumps on my right leg. Interesting and weird. Any ideas on that?

It could also mean that one leg is hamstring dominant (in terms of posterior chain "separation") - the left leg, jumping one, and the other is glute dominant, the right, non-jumping leg. I'd rather have it in reverse and use more glute for the jumping leg if anything.

PS. This brings me to my discussions with adarqui with me telling him he should involve the posterior chain more and him replying that he doesn't thinks so, because the "quad is the way" for his structure. I don't really agree with him.

That's not good, I have a few under my hamstring-glute connection now, probably from that ass pain.

But I get these as well... if I'm trying to find them, I do so... Anyway, a small infection can cause that or even too much dunking (I usually have these problems when I dunk alot due to so many extension and so on). HOPEFULLY IT'S THAT.

Yeah I know that, did it a couple of times.

If I'm to analyze my jumping mechanics off one leg by the way I feel my muscles activating (not by video), it really feels like the quads load a lot when I first touch the ground to go as breaks and stop forward momentum, they also push into the ground but then as I rise up and knee angle lessens I apply a lot of glute/hamstring power into the movement.

I always feel the quads as the limiting factor because they usually aren't able to break properly and the knee collapses. Probably because I bend forward sometimes in my plant as well.

I understand what you're saying, that I need to work on posterior chain activation so that the quad overloads less in the plant, but the quad still needs to stop the knee from collapsing and I'm not sure it has the amount of strength that I want it to have to prevent that, even with better posterior chain involvement. It's interesting when you think about  it though, that great glute activation can actually help against knee collapse through the illio-tibial band (the illio-tibial band acts as a knee extensor).

Strictly from a strength perspective, would the one-leg wall sit improve on that? (quad strength, especially VMO)?

Hahaha wtf

That reminds me of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air with the health jokes:

"Nobody loves me... ... I feel like crap".

"That's OK man... at least you're healthy... um... what's that lumpy thing growing on your neck?!"

I used to laugh histerically at that.

PS. I kind of sucked in this song but heck, I feel a lot better when I listen Roxette play live - they seem to suck more.

I was wondering if something like this with weights in hands could help single leg jumpers like me to help with quad strength:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE9KoQRCiDU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE9KoQRCiDU</a>

I used to do iso stuff for ~20s as a target (so adjusting my weight to be in the 10-20s range) on one leg with the BSS variety:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMEH2u0N-lY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMEH2u0N-lY</a>

What I'm doing seems more prone on the posterior chain thing but the wall sit on one leg seems aimed more towards the quad thing, and I need that. If I compound that with holding a plate in my arms at chest level or two plates to the sides at hip level, that might increase my quad strength. What do you think? Also, do you think I should focus on the 10-20s range (like RJ was telling some time ago) or go for a longer period of time?