This comes from an advertisement not scientific study:
www.somatics.de/FascialFitnessTerraRosa.pdf
The advertisement is pretty dishonest as well. Kram and Dawson's paper is about whether hopping is favourable in arid climates, their paper never mentions the word catapult, nor do they mention gazelles. The statement is quite silly because most mammals (including humans) can jump farther than can be explained by just the force of muscular contraction. This is why we jump father after an approach, we are able to store energy in our tendons. This is why plyometric training in addition to strength training allows people to jump higher.
If you believe that this tdubs athlete is able to jump high because of some technical prowess that is fine. But to claim he is able to twist his myosin filaments and then severely misquote an advertisement which severely misquotes some scientific papers is unnecessary and does a disservice to those who read your posts.
It also makes people refuse to consider the possibility that this athletes take off mechanics allow him to store more energy from his approach, something which is entirely possible. However, I will tell you that I have extensively studied long jump mechanics and even written papers concerning the long jump and that Carl Lewis and Mike Powell both jump close to 30 feet and have drastically different takeoff mechanics and takeoff velocity. So even if this athlete uses this take off to achieve his high leap, it does not suggest at all that this is the only way to do it.
The source states;
'Here the tendons and the fascia of the legs are tensioned like elastic bands. The release of this stored energy is what makes the amazing hops possible'. Its exactly what it says on the paper,
a catapult mechanism. It's the exact same principal.
They didn't need to mention gazelles, they could have refereed to deer, proghorns, cheetahs, puma's etc which use the exact same mechanism. There all in the same boat as kangaroo's.
Can anyone give me the low down on T-DUBS plyometric & strength training program?. For me to add any exercise into my program, it has to be GREAT. The most recent addition is T-DUBS planting technique for 8-12 continuous reps (core compressed). Man, it's a killer. It's my core that takes the brunt but the plant/then change of direction/to plant etc has to be hitting the Achilles just the same.
I think comparing long jump to dunkin' is like apples & oranges. I think long jump is more horizontal force based where as dunkin' to be more vertical force. There is also the consideration of the run ups too.
Picture Carl Lewis at 27MPH at the free throw line trying to dunk. Even if he pulled off the dunk, he could really end up hurting himself.
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