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Performance Area => Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion => Topic started by: fast does lie on May 31, 2013, 09:09:04 am
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So I joined a pretty competitive league. I must say that though i have been training for vertical religiously the last 14 months, i was actually training for speed. I did lots of squats and hip extensions and hamstring stuff almost every other day at near 90% RM. I am overweight but its okay.
Last night i was able to outrun some extremely gifted athletes, but the problem is when ur running at 50mph... ur kind of out of control and u can't get elevation. I want to be able to run that fast AND get some elevation/control...
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That's what I've been saying off myself - it's not that I lack the ability to develop power, it's the lack of control/breaking once that power has been developed.
Yes I can get very fast but once I'm there I don't have good enough breaks to stop/change direction (and jumping is a change of direction from horizontal to vertical). Hence my obsession with the breaks of the body - the quads.
Obviously there are other ways of having good breaks and taking some of the blunt from the quads, like having powerful calves and a good posture (so the glutes get some of the deceleration as well functioning at the hip).
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So I joined a pretty competitive league. I must say that though i have been training for vertical religiously the last 14 months, i was actually training for speed. I did lots of squats and hip extensions and hamstring stuff almost every other day at near 90% RM. I am overweight but its okay.
Last night i was able to outrun some extremely gifted athletes, but the problem is when ur running at 50mph... ur kind of out of control and u can't get elevation. I want to be able to run that fast AND get some elevation/control...
I'm sure that extra weight doesn't hurt your ability to transition from horizontal to vertical at all....
Think about it, what brakes and changes direction better a 3000lb car or a 5000lb car with the same brakes/suspension?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia
And more specific:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia#Mass_and_inertia
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brakes.
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lol'd in real life.
that baby reminds of this other baby who is just scared of anyone with facial hair lol