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New Post 9/8/2008 8:50 PM
  sportscience1984
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Relative Squat Strength and Vertical Jump Height 
Dear Professor Dr. Verkhoshansky,

I'm interested in the average relative strength numbers of elite level highjumpers in the squat exercise. Also, do these high jumpers ever reach relative strength levels that don't allow for further transfer to the high jump?

Is there a general guideline derived from practice on how much relative strength is enough for athletes interested in maximizing vertical jump height? I'm not only asking about jump height off a single leg like in the highjump, but also about vertical jump height  from a standing start or from a run with both feet.

Yours respectfully,
Nizar Abu-Hamdeh
Vienna, Austria


 
New Post 9/27/2008 11:28 AM
  Prof. Verkhoshansky
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Re: Relative Squat Strength and Vertical Jump Height 

Dear Nizar Abu-Hamdeh,

your questions include different aspects:

1)      relation between the maximal weight of Barbell Squat and the maximal force developed in the legs extension movement - this relation could be influenced  by the athlete’s Barbell Squat execution technique;

2)      relation between the maximal strength of leg extensors and the T&F high jump result - this relation is strongly influenced by the T&F high jump execution technique;

3)      the nature of the leg extensors maximal strength; in other words, what kind of training method has been used for the maximal strength increasing - if this strength has been developed using Bodybuilding methods (with muscle hypertrophy), it could not assure the explosive strength increasing.

 

So, there could not be a general and universal guideline on how much relative strength is enough for athletes to maximize vertical jump height.

But to have information that could help you, you should find specifics experimentals results of in publications. These experimental results must be referred to the parameters of high level T&F high jumpers group: the relation between their results in high jump, vertical jump (Abalakov) and the maximal weight that they are able to lift in Barbell Squat in the same day.

Unlikely, I have not these data.

 

Yuri Verkhoshansky

 
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