Air Umair meets Quarter Squats

[umairsemail]

You've seen how short my arms are relative to my height. I get to about 10'8-10 when i dunk and I can't do that unless there's no ball in my hands, so it'll have to be a lob. 10'6 is not enough to dunk.

Very few people in the 5'9 range, without monkey arms, can dunk...period.

[MBasic]

without monkey arms,

micro-aggression

[umairsemail]

372 lb quarter squats from yesterday.

Dumbbell jump

All is going well!! Have been injury free for a very long time!

[MBasic]

I actually don't jump higher with dumbbells lol. It's about the same. I'll post a video without em if you want haha. Try it yourself. My standing jumps are actually ~38.5" also. I've just been doing a lot of weighted jumps and quarter squats and my vert EXPLODED.

40" > 38.5" . . . and 40" is with the added weight, so . . . . yeah, the advantage IS with the dumbells then.

How heavy were the DBs in the video? How heavy have you tried?

the dumbbells in the video were 5 lbs each.

without dumbbells=~39"
10 lbs total dumbbells=40"
20 lbs total dumbbells=36"
40 lbs total dumbbells=29"
60 lbs total dumbbells=25"

Weird force/velocity curve?

Broad jump with 5 lb dumbbells is 10'8
Broad jump without anything is 10'4.

There's also the effect of throwing the weights down in the eccentric counter movement part, could build up more stretch-reflex effect.
. . . like why a RVJ > SVJ . . . you load the eccentric more.

Better keep this quiet. The guys at the next combine will be hiding 3 lbs of lead pellets in their wrist bands (sweat bands) to mimic the effect.

Btw, the quarter squat experiment was successful. I did it for a long ass time and my vert exploded as a result. I was getting mocked for that before haha.

#1: define, exploded?

#2: What would/could have been different HAD you been doing proper squats at depth? maybe more SVJ "explosion"

n=1 with no control group

Yes I know it's not a controlled study, but there was a study before that showed this:


My full squat was already pretty strong and I doubt going from ~2.25x BW to 2.5x would have had the same effect as drastically improving my power in the athletic (quarter) position. I tracked my progress and bar speed as well (with the Beast Sensor). I ended up being able to move 372 as fast as I could move 312 in november.

... LETS CONTINUE THIS IS YOUR THREAD/LOG.
Mine's getting clogged up; I sometimes actually troll back thru my own log to find PR's, body weights, etc, reference points, etc
Continue here.

[MBasic]

Link to THAT^ study again please?

[umairsemail]

3 months of benching have yielded amazing gains as well. I can currently bench 215 at a body weight of 140. I do mainly speed work and do some heavy strength work
My upper body routine:

The workout:
3x5 shallow (3" above chest) bench press @ 0.7 m/s
3x5 push up jumps for height on just jump mat (can get 14-15" now)
2x5 full bench press for strength

[umairsemail]

Link to THAT^ study again please?

Full study

It's for "highly trained athletes" though.

[umairsemail]

I've noticed that my legs have become differently shaped as well. Like before the distal portion was kinda thick relative to the proximal region. Now the upper parts of my thighs are really big and the lower parts are really thin. Perhaps a result of the partial squat training?

[umairsemail]

Back in it. On summer break (kinda) now.