Depth Drops And Joint Health

Alright so basic goal here was pull the legs up and then upon landing feel as if I’m still pulling up vs extending down

Be able to stick that landing and then half a sec later, drive back up cleanly stopping a couple inches short of full extension

Practically what I’ve felt with this type of work is more control over my tissue and better response from it, particularly the joints

For example in the depth drops above when i dropped and continued to pull well, landing really didn’t feel impactful at all

When i dropped and lost it and felt the legs extending didn’t have that quite as much

But when done right, these felt quiet and clean - like the only thing that was really working was the legs, and they took the impact without any problem

Which i think is one aspect of my training that may often be misinterpreted - the goal isn’t to do this and just beat your body up and feel terrible

The goal is to do A LOT and be able to recover from it

Because there’s basically two ends of the spectrum

Not do anything so you’re not prepared but put yourself at almost zero risk of injury (except when you actually want to go do something in sport)

And then secondly to train so hard and put in so much stress that you get injured and are beat down

So neither of those are the goal

It’s to be able to do A LOT and recover from it

That’s it

Cause then you can go out and do whatever you want in your sport

And at the same time not feel like a pile of poop

45 min of these today

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Worth noting here is this type of work doesn’t replace jumping and sprinting and actually doing your sport

This would be like very very isolated scenario, me purely working on how precisely i can control my system in that scenario

Doesn’t mean it will be perfect like this when you go out and actually compete

But that’s fine - goal of this type of work is to build a buffer so your system stays in better and better position more and more consistently when you ask it it to perform out in sport

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