- YouTube Heres’s my workout from yesterday. I would appreciate some help.
I’m wondering about my box squats. I’ve tried experimenting with my stance. The one in the video is my regular stance. I also tried using a wider stance and sitting farther back so my lower leg would be past perpendicular. I’m wondering which one would help me more. I’m working towards running faster and jumping higher, so I don’t know which one would be more beneficial. Does it really matter? Am I just over thinking?
Box squat wide stance vs. Box squat conventional stance does not matter for improving your vertical jump/track speed.
Otep. You are always there to help me out. I appreciate it buddy.
I filter threads I look at in this forum by the number of posts. If a thread has more than five posts, I assume the question has been answered. If not, then I’ll read it.
And it’s 2am. Are you waiting for Santa or something?
It’s only 12:30 where I’m at. I usually go to sleep around 3ish. And I wonder why not too many people answer my threads then?
Oh. You’re in THAT Washington…
Indeed. Well thanks for the help. Hopefully I’ll get more input too.
[quote]Otep wrote:
I filter threads I look at in this forum by the number of posts. If a thread has more than five posts, I assume the question has been answered. If not, then I’ll read it.
And it’s 2am. Are you waiting for Santa or something?[/quote]
Thanks for that.
LiftSmart, that is the greatest avatar EVER.
A wide stance obviously shifts more emphasis to the hamstrings, so I would think if you were going to choose one of the two, the wide stance would be preferable.
[quote]DjSm28 wrote:
- YouTube Heres’s my workout from yesterday. I would appreciate some help.
I’m wondering about my box squats. I’ve tried experimenting with my stance. The one in the video is my regular stance. I also tried using a wider stance and sitting farther back so my lower leg would be past perpendicular. I’m wondering which one would help me more.
I’m working towards running faster and jumping higher, so I don’t know which one would be more beneficial. Does it really matter? Am I just over thinking?[/quote]
People who run fast and jump high generally have great RELATIVE body strength. So if a 300lb. guy benches 260 and a 200lb guy benches the same then the 200lb guy has more “relative” strength. Relative strength isn’t necessarily the be all and end all, it just gives the person the potential to jump high and run fast. Along with doing box squats deadlifts and so on, you need to go and run fast!
You need to train your nervous system to recruit more muscle fibers and to do it very quickly. Therefore you need to incorporate plyometrics, 10 yd sprints, 20yd sprints etc. Even some overspeed training. But by all means continue to get stronger, it will help for sure. make sure you keep your mobility in the process since your running form will be affected if your lacking in mobility and flexibility.
Technique will be very important as well. The best guy I’ve read about on this subject is Joe DeFranco. www.defrancostraining.com. That basically what he does for a living, he makes guys better athletes by training them to be able to run faster and jump higher. Hope that helps. Good luck.