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Sprinting SPP ballistic trap bar

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CoolColJ:
The Keiser  stuff would work better for this kind of thing, since there is no weight involved.

I see Su Bingtian does a lot of this stuff and he is the fastest accelerator ever over 60m and under.
He did a lot of Keiser seated calf raises to bring up his soleus power.

FP:
Yeah that machine is awesome. Su is definitely someone to study as far as joining lifting and speed work. I feel like with attempting to make lifts specific its pretty hit or miss, maybe some of the criteria for specificity are met really well while others are so far from the movement its use becomes really limited. And understanding and applying the structural change component is pretty tough as well.

But I think the upper 1/8 of a squat is potentially so difficult to maximally overload, the leverage is so good, that for an elite speed athlete, maybe even a leg press would be maxed out before approaching overloading the 1/8 RoM. In my mind thats the potential magic of a very well set up variation of this lift - tension generated earlier in the lift, but max force having to be applied at the very top due to the bar bounce no longer assisting at that RoM. But even if my theory is right, getting the loading and height correct, mastering technique and having to probably make adjustments to avoid injury, more likely than not it would be pretty impractical.

FP:
https://youtu.be/jBBU2BryWlQ

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CoolColJ:
Looks just like a belt squat

FP:
I mean yeah, basically. Ive only used a pit shark/belt squat setup once, but imo its also much more specific than popular lifts. If I get a landmine setup maybe ill be able to do a variant of it.

https://youtu.be/QjTgRyptaKI
So looks like the lift is 400kg?

But something I just realized: looking at his feet, the somewhat unnatural (slower) rhythm in which they move, the high level of tension in them and how they seem to be driving the movement. Maybe its for the feet.

One of the main movements Cal Dietz uses is a split squat w safety bar and front heel elevated, hands holding rack in front for stability. Supposedly it overloads the arch with the heel elevated (in addition to training quads and p chain more specifically, going through the balls of the foot, not the heels) and high level athletes can get decent RoM with 500-600lbs +

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