Squats and Vertical Leap?

facepalm · 06-30-2009, 10:56 PM

The Disturbing Truth About Squats...

This guy says squatting reduces overall vertical leap, decreases explosiveness and running speed.

Ridiculous!

**enright3060** · 06-30-2009, 10:57 PM

lol

Chaos Mitten · 06-30-2009, 10:58 PM

Never trust a "strength coach" who has tiny legs and traps.

BreezerD · 06-30-2009, 11:07 PM

Never trust an Australian.

Sconse · 06-30-2009, 11:16 PM

LOL I have no idea who that guy is, but when I started the video it looks like someone doing some kind of parody clip or something, the guy looks and sounds like a total douche.

lol @ his graph explanation, its like his clients have an IQ of like 10. I guess they'd have to, it sounds like he has an IQ of about 20... tops. Fuck he's saying so many stupid things I don't even know where to start. TIME IS IN (s) FOR SECONDS DUMB ASS. AND POWER =/= INTENSITY...

haha, if you squat, like this, and you go down and you come back up (how else do you squat?), your under tension the whole way down, and the whole way up (well yeh, the weight, and your bw, don't magically disappear halfway through the lift).

jpmx16 · 06-30-2009, 11:24 PM

I'd like to see this guy's strongest and fastest "clients" compete against the athletes trained by someone like Joe Defranco. Try telling Defranco that all the lifting his athletes do is making them slower and decreasing their vertical leap.

Fedorable · 06-30-2009, 11:25 PM

old, been posted three or four times already.

Sconse · 06-30-2009, 11:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fedorable

old, been posted three or four times already.

I've never seen it before.. holy fuck he's stupid though. I hate people like this so much. I hope he dies.

Edit: his graph doesn't even make sense? Should the y axis be force/work? force(work)/time = power. wtf is power/time? Its almost like he walked into a random lecture, saw a graph, didn't really understand it but took it any way and told people what he thought.

Hocky_Balboa · 06-30-2009, 11:38 PM

*Your name*

See what I did there?

Tosa · 06-30-2009, 11:38 PM

I like the part where he explains a graph like it's a novel concept that only the brightest will understand without his instruction. I didn't watch farther than that because he is so stupid it started to hurt. He talks like someone with a head injury and a stroke.