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Originally Posted by Malone32
Aight so I did todays workout. My hamstrings are SHOT. I mixed up day 3 this week with week 2 day three, but the only difference is glute/ham raises instead of partial deadlifts so I think no biggy. The glute ham raises were a bitch, I absolutely could not do them at all. Any ideas/help?
Also the track coach critiqued my plyo form. He says its all about timing, and this jumping is nonsense. I'd ignore him but he had a 44+ vert back in the day and did olympics. He also said I was landing wrong on my jumps (the one legged ones). I would land on the ball of my foot and attempt to absorb the shock as quickly as possible without my heel touching down before exploding up again, this wrong?
Thanks in advance.
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Real GHR on a GHR bench? Or the "Natural"/Floor version?
Your coach was on the Olympic squad? What for?
On the subject of plyos, I would have thought that the goal is to minimise ground contact time and it is best to utilise as much elasticity in your achilles tendon. To me that means keeping the heel off the ground but not at the expense of stability; you really need sufficient calf and foot strength for this to work. Then again I'm no expert here. Would be interested in hearing the reasons behind his views. Out of interest, what exercises were you doing?
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