That vest would affect your ability to create that vertical force in sprinting.

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I feel like at most you could say is that ATG wouldn’t improve a trained athlete’s vertical as well as a THP program. With that said I do think their knee rehab and core injury prevention philosophy is sound. I’m curious as to why you think it won’t do much to help.

@@lumberjacklucci3018 tib raises are a joke. Like a freaking joke. Tib raises only have a place in neurologically impaired populations with actual DF weakness lol. ATG split squats are one of the worse exercises you can do for jumpers knee or PFP, way too much compression, not to mention the loading isnt higher enough to illicit any tendon or really even quad adaptation. It's just going to cause pain. Deep squats and nordics are fine, but you cant really deep squat if you have PT so you'll have to adjust the ROM. Bwd sled drags are fine for a warmup. Sissy squats are okay, but again they are really going to piss off a tendon bc it's so much compression. In a healthy athlete they're a decent accessory exercise at best, though they really just target the quads and that's it. Reverse squats are also kind of a joke. HF strains happen at long muscle lengths, which reverse squats do not train and they aren't even a "functional" exercise either. Not horrendous tho. Their KOT are an absolute joke tho. You will in no way shape or form stimulate any calf adaptation from bodyweight and KB calf raises. Your soleus is INSANELY strong. People that get on ATG start to feel good because they stop doing what hurts and stop actually loading their body in any meaningful way. Then they get back to playing their sport and get frickin railed lol. I've known guys that will do "bulletproof" exercises for 8 weeks for their jumpers knee, then try to return to jumping just for it to come right back. There's even a rumor in the dunk community of some guys doing ATG and GETTING knee pain but that's unconfirmed. They have almost zero variety with exercises, gets stale really quickly. Gotta be able to periodize programming throughout the year and add variety if you want to prevent accommodation. Jump balance is a stupid frickin concept. You end up just becoming average at all 4 plants instead of really good at 1 or 2. They dont do any real power or plyo work or surf the F-V curve that im aware of besides to show off their "pain free bulletproof knees" with some SL or alternated bounding. Jumping off a 50in ladder and landing in a deep squat to a reveres nordic isnt impressive at all, it just dissipates the forces more so there's less load at the knee, no proof of "bulletproofing." They overdo the stretching, athletes don't have to be able to do the splits or reach these extreme ranges of motion. That just ends up messing up the length-tension relationship of the sarcomeres and they can't produce force as well because they lack optimal overlap with the actin and myosin. This isnt to say you shouldn't be mobile and be flexible, but they take it too far lol and that's why some guys start jumping lower. Very little empirical evidence for anything they do too, and most of the studies they cite seem to be 40 years old. The fact that they would train a 70 year old basically the same way as a 20 year old elite athlete is insane and will absolutely under dose the athlete. People that "see gains" on ATG likely just see it from jumping more and doing a little bit of the lifting and would have probably seen gains with any program regardless. Benny P is a scientologist, which is a literally classified as cult in some countries and the main goal of it is just to make money (not joking, their leader is quoted as saying that lol I did a little digging one day). Im all for health and wellness and getting people moving, but I am completely against spreading bad training advice, especially when your target audience is kids trying to get more athletic and are vulnerable to falling for the trap. They are CERTAINLY not an athletic performance program, and they're barely a rehab program, but it suits more middle aged people than actual athletes who want to return to sport. I probably missed some things and maybe they have changed a few things by now. But there's your lecture for the day haha

​@@bendunksdpt this comment could be a video of its own lol

@@BrodieStephens. Im not a big enough creator to be making rant vids like that just yet 😂😭

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i have used it since early 00s for basketball. it will help with explosive movements in bball, driving, crossovers, layups and jumping. Not good for sprints.

Yes, it’s called Sir Isaac Newton 😂 It’s hard to corroborate things that are factual haha

@@IsaiahRivera1 jump height is directly correlated with initial velocity at takeoff irregardless of mass, according to newton. I wouldnt be surprised if impulse in respect to human mechanics is directly correlated with jump height but it looks like you just made that up?

I’ll speak to sprinting, the reason you would sprint downhill is to reduce ground contact time, while going your max speed or faster. The issue is you need to maintain a similar form to when you run on a flat surface, however a lot of the time when people go down hill their form changes, so it doesn’t really transfer. If you went downhill on a shallow enough slope so that you could keep your mechanics, it should work. But, there’s other ways to do that that are less risky.

Overspend training is used.

False. Weighted vests only thing that helped me. And it makes you more explosive. Train with it 5 mins and take it off, you are immediately more explosive. It's literally resistance training with like 10% of my body weight at maximum speed. As useful as plyos + lifting program? No. But for basketball movements, driving, and layups and jumping? Use it consistently, you will see progress.

​@@RealParadox85If weighted vests are the only thing that helped, you definitely were doing something wrong in other areas

Time and place for everything! It’s a potential tool

Weighted vest = great way to hurt back and make urself shorter

​​@@IsaiahRivera1Yeah but every tool has a different level of potential, I don't think max approach jumps are possible with a weighted vest on, and even if they were, it would change the dynamics of the movement so much that I wouldn't even call it specific. Max approach jumps are the most straightforward/specific thing possible; I really don't see how adding weight to it would benefit an athlete. I think that the more specific the exercise gets, the less variation you're afforded to implement

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