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43? Really?

I remember when Russian coaches used to monitor their athletes' heart rates in the morning and see the difference vs. their usual HR when rested. If their HR would be over a certain threshold they would be overtrained and they would skip that day and use it to rest them.

I have a bunch of interesting ideas gathered over the books I read... had to cut short their display on my website because of personal problems... maybe I should look into writing them in a post these days.

Well I prefer a standing VJ as well, I can gather myself better, I get almost no reactive bonus from loading up my "knees" (quad tendons), but to transform taking a step to jump or do a pivot-rotate jump into a "injury risk" is way too much. Com'on now.

Everything we do is geared for fast twitch muscle fibers. They really are the only fibers that respond to hypertrophy, really. Otherwise marathon runners on caloric surplus would "develop slow twitch fibers" and get big, bulgy slow twitch physiques.

How much would you gain off an one-step plant or with a rotate-on-the-planted-leg and jump?

Yes but the adaptability of the hip flexors is much lower than the overall weight gain of the legs. The same applies to the calves - one important reason why when you get heavier you'll be a worse one leg jumper is because the calves rarely get adapted to being stronger as you gain all that weight, and therefore being heavier = more overload to pretty much the same strength level for the calves = more collapse of the jumping leg.

The calves can't keep up getting stronger as the same rate as you gain weight, just as much as the hip flexors can't keep up getting stronger at the same rate as the legs are getting heavier.

I know I know, it just bothers me

Dark sand cascades on Mars:

They might look like trees on Mars, but they're not. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The above image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the interior of Martian sand dunes became more and more visible as the spring Sun melted the lighter carbon dioxide ice. When occurring near the top of a dune, dark sand may cascade down the dune leaving dark surface streaks -- streaks that might appear at first to be trees standing in front of the lighter regions, but cast no shadows. Objects about 25 centimeters across are resolved on this image spanning about one kilometer. Close ups of some parts of this image show billowing plumes indicating that the sand slides were occurring even while the image was being taken.

So basically it's harder to do them seated?

Because man, I struggle with 15 kg dumbbells to do a few reps and you do 10 reps with 18 kg dumbbells. But again, my elbows flare out a ton, my arms don't go straight up.