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improving conditioning & moderate rep bodyweight exercises/lifts goes a long way towards improving health.. short sprints, 200's, 400's, light running, jump rope, lateral movements, submax jumps from all plants, bodyweight stuff, avoiding risky exercises etc.. improving overall fitness.

To be frank, I'm kind of "afraid" of doing any "long distance" (>50m) sprints... I feel like my heart will blow up and die. I really think about that in my head. I've never had any resistance ever in my life... especially as I get drained of energy almost immediately because of nervous stuff (I get so "stressed" when I run that my energy just drains like rocket fuel).

so you can't jump/sprint anymore without pain? i figured the pain in the knee was still mostly isolated to squatting, considering your recent bound videos and depth broad jump videos.

I can sprint at high speeds without too much pain and I can jump maximally... it's just... weird. For the bounds, I only did them on the left leg, no right leg involvement. And yeah, I can do the depth jumps but there is pain.

if maximal jumping feels fine then it's definitely something else.. if you do slow runs, do them on grass etc, nice and soft, lots of blood flow, lots of very light impacts.

That's just boring... slow runs? WTF? I can't just go to the track and see other people (Nightfly etc) train while I "slow run"... drives me nuts. I mean, I feel like my life is meaningless and shit like that. I know, crazy, but I still think that. Lost time...

Now I know, you're going to say "yes but it's for your healing"... haven't ever been injured in my life... that's a hard concept to comprehend.

if a dynamic warmup is really hurting the knee then man get that mri and get it figured out, thats if you have the right type of medical care.. if you don't, you'll have to do lots of light stuff to help rebuild/compensate to protect the knee.

A dynamic warmup isn't "really" hurting the knee but it does hurt it. When I do the knees to chest jumps unilaterally as part of the warmup, it still is an unilateral jump and land... so that bothers my knee.

But enough about me, hopefully I can rebound like Enzo here 

So this is some kind of inspirational for me I guess

1) Nah, I just ran all three videos in Quicktime and it opens up multiple instances of the program, so I could just sized them to fit on the desktop and then printsceen and paste in Paint. And then cut and paste again in a new document in Paint what I was interested in (so that the rest of the desktop doesn't appear in the final shots) and then save it as a JPG and upload it on imageshack.

2) Yes, I train with these guys.

3) They are in between 2.45 and 2.61.

One more thing - someone commented that since this is a test, it should be canceled because I put my hand down behind me not to fall. That actually isn't true because the only reason I did that is because I landed in a full squat and with the legs in a narrow stance I can't stay in that position since I fall on my back. So I put my hand down not to fall because of this and not because of other considerations.

That might as well be the thing. It's also probably loading different, but I think you nailed it. Interesting adaptations occur over time...

Complex training is great.

Like I said in other threads, the day that I did ~5 cycles of power cleans + depth jumps for length (3 reps for each exercise) it was probably the best power/reactive thing I have ever did. It just "felt" great. And I was heavily tired like 3 days after that day.

It's strange that your right leg was better... it's usually the first leg you plant in a two-leg jump that's stronger and you have more control onto that, because you also rotate on that leg and therefore it's your "base" leg. The 2nd leg you plant off two feet is your "block" leg which doesn't contribute that much into the jump. I'd say the 2nd leg is more quad involved than anything if you look at the angles.

I'm not really reactive, I just "look smooth". I don't get too much out of prestretch when jumping off two feet because I'm not a two-footed efficient jumper in any situation.