Hamstring "Bounce" ?

[MazdaMatt]

I move that the word science be asterisked out to reduce the amount of offense taken on this board. The problem with facts is that they can prove anything, right or wrong.

[gzt]

Yeah, except I'd hate for this to turn into one of those "mommy" boards where they talk about feelings and unicorns rather than science, so they think vaccines will kill them and births at home are safer than those at hospitals.

[misspelledgeoff]

Yeah, except I'd hate for this to turn into one of those "mommy" boards where they talk about feelings and unicorns rather than science, so they think vaccines will kill them and births at home are safer than those at hospitals.

Agreed. In the absence of facts, at least we have logic and common sense (current gaggle of trolls excluded, of course).

I move that the word science be asterisked out to reduce the amount of offense taken on this board. The problem with facts is that they can prove anything, right or wrong.

This is troof. I crunch data for a living--doing it myself and managing others who do it. I've always said that if you flog data hard enough, it will confess to anything.

[gzt]

This is troof. I crunch data for a living--doing it myself and managing others who do it. I've always said that if you flog data hard enough, it will confess to anything.

This is precisely my experience. You usually get lies or damned lies rather than statistics.

[milesdyson]

if you're doing it right it should be very apparent in a heavy single because your ascent will be markedly slower about halfway up than during the bounce.

last time i did singles here. you can tell i'm "bouncing" on the third and heaviest lift. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWPmxDEczA

[misspelledgeoff]

That's some fine squatting right there.

if you're doing it right it should be very apparent in a heavy single because your ascent will be markedly slower about halfway up than during the bounce.

last time i did singles here. you can tell i'm "bouncing" on the third and heaviest lift. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWPmxDEczA

[TheTonyT]

First off, nice job broseph.

Secondly, I think I see what your talking about. The deeper in the bucket, the more one should bounce out of the hole like in Oly squats, right ? So lets say if I wasnt going deep enough bellow parallel then the bounce would not be achieved or be minimal ?

[milesdyson]

the best bounce occurs when you reach the greatest depth possible given the depth "limiters" i guess. if you limit forward knee travel to just in front of toes, don't let your knees slide, and never let your lower back come out of extension, there's only so much depth you can get before the hamstrings just "win the war" over the pelvis (this is discussed in SS). they are stretched fully in a good squat, and the bounce is simply the stretch reflex from the fully stretched muscle imo.