Running the numbers, even a good casein powder is cheaper. At least locally, for me. But the texture is nice. It’s filling too. And the carbs help stimulate insulin which can be a pro/con.
FWIW, I started seeking out mustard when I was stupidly underweight. I don’t normally consume it much.
That’s how they getcha!
It just about started a riot when Kennywood tried to stop using their ketchup. 
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Oh dear Lord I can’t believe I used to worship mark Rippetoe when I was starting. Dude just said last week in a video that you CAN’T really train power production…
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In total fairness to Mark
He can’t.
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That’s a tricky one.
Some would say that you can’t train the neurological system to perform beyond its maximum potential.
It has more to do with neurological structure and the maximum potential signaling strength than going faster and heavier on speed squats.
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Sure, your power/explosivity/speed whatever ceiling is genetic, that doesn’t mean you can’t train it. That you can’t train yourself to recruit more fiber, express your power, and he’s saying you can’t increase your vertical… I have increased mine by a good 6" despite my max squat having gained what like 10 kgs, with proper power training
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I had seen Mark Rippetoe’s stuff, but my first real routine was 5/3/1 - the original '08 article on this site, so I ended up researching more Wendler in the beginning. Then, in the Marines, some really fat navy guy was training his tiny friend in the power clean, next to my friend and I in the base gym, and his friend was almost killing himself every time he tried one, but the fat guy kept insisting really loudly that he had been to an olympic lifting seminar with Mark Rippetoe, and that didn’t help my opinion of him.
I run to the opposite extreme of most of this generation of lifters - most of them really like him at first and then back off a bit as time goes on, whereas I was way too critical of him before reading more of his stuff. For beginners, I think he lays down some really big foundational ideas and sticks to them, and some of his writing is great. Then he shoved himself into a pretty narrow field of view and stuck there.
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How many people have the ability to train their neurological systems to their maximum potential?
If Power is Work/ Time can’t you just do your workout faster to train it?
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Right. You’re talking about expression with jump height increase.
But once that expression meets/matches the maximum potential, that’s it. That’s as far as one can go.
Not many, if any.
At a friend’s place we used to connect to a tendo unit and computer that would display all kinds of cool stuff, but my main limiting factors were a tendency to tear muscles and dislocate stuff (spine).
Without an entire lab full of stuff, it’s hard to even guess what the actual signaling strength is, let alone the potential.
I get what he means but it’s false by definition (the statement that you can’t train to increase power).
Power is defined as force production per unit of time: F/t.
You can’t decrease the time component past a certain point, but you can definitely increase the force production. So yeah, more strength = more power.
I give up.
You guys win. 
I wasn’t disagreeing with you for what it’s worth.
I understand. I’m not put off by it, I’m just tapped out of actual info on the subject.
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I also got what you were saying, for whatever THAT’S worth, haha.
Yeah, my open ended question was about the extent of my info 
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I just hope it came across as anything better than a word salad. 
It’s been a long time since I’ve even thought about any of this stuff.
All good mate, glad to have had the discussion with you.
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Indeed, indeed you are right. The jump is just an example.
You are also right about strength training. Increasing your strength will increase the maximum power and speed you can produce, as well as a bit your actual demonstrable power. That’s why for beginners, general strength training trumps all. But if you don’t train at some point for power you won’t be able to tap into that potential.
Unfortunately I don’t have studies about this under my arm
Even then not everything is understood. Like the different types of fiber. Well the fibers 2x are the one that react the most to explosive training. Not great for hypertrophy though
Absolutely. There are measurable adaptations that take place, even in the motor cortex.
In my brothers case (a c-5 quadriplegic) I’ve seen improvement in movement and signal strength in therapy sessions using biofeedback equipment, but even those techniques/technologies can only go so far.
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