I posted this in my blog a while back, but it bares repeating!
Need more proof squatting is good for your hops?
quoting Kelly Baggett
[QUOTE]In one instance I had a client that I felt had way too many movement dysfunctions to ever benefit from increased strength. The guy was fairly strong and thick but didn’t move very smooth and anyone who watched him would probably say the same thing. In a little more than a year he’d gotten up to around a 300 pound squat, weighed 170 pounds and gone from a 22 to 26 inch vertical jump. At this point I thought if he ever wanted to further improve as an athlete the guy should spend most of his time working on mobility, activation, and movement work and less on strength training.
At this point he decided to stop sports training and take up bodybuilding. A year later his bodyweight was up 20 pounds, his squat was up almost 100 pounds, and he hadn’t done any sports or movement related stuff in almost a year. He then told me he wanted to get back into vert training and I fully expected him to look like a trainwreck. After a couple of weeks of deloading and working back into some jump training he proceeded to go out and hit a 35 inch jump and easily dunk for the first time, so obviously my original assumptions were wrong.
After observing a couple of more instances like that I realized I’d fallen into functional overanalyzation trap of the modern day strength and conditioning coach. This type of movmement impairment overanlyzation doesn’t take place in sports like gymnastics and martial arts but people still improve just fine. Train with good form, play your sport, become aware of what proper movement feels and looks like, and most of the activation stuff will work itself out. To clarify I’m also not against the use of various progressions to ensure good form like you like to use.
What I’m against is the notion that training for athletes and training for people coming out of joint replacement surgery needs to be the same[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]He’s 5’10 185. I’m not sure of his exact reach but it’s not that high. I believe he has to jump around 30 inches just to hit the rim. One thing about him is his body-fat is still the same now at 185 as it was when he weighed 170.
He went all the way up to 205 at one point and then spent about 6 months cutting down to 185. It was at that point he decided to get back into vert training. I was still really surprised with his progress but that goes to show you how important basic strengyh is[/QUOTE]
impressive gains, just from bodybuilding as well
as I said before, it doesn’t matter how you get the strength,
muscle mass/strength is muscle mass and strength
A bigger muscle is a stronger muscle.
We all know that, but plenty of people are paranoid of gaining weight and using bodybuilding methods.
All strength training does is teach the body to use it’s existing muscle size better.
And the strength gain will always out number the muscle mass increase weight, if you train right.
No matter how much you trick out a 2 litre 4 cyclinder engine, and try to make it more effecient and rev higher, it can never beat a 6 litre v12 for raw torque, even if the V12 is a lot bigger and heavier…
Horsepower is horsepower, just get it no matter how you do it. Then when you teach your body to apply it, movement efficiency, the end result is the same.
