00:01 Torque is crucial for jumping higher 02:07 Torque results from applying force off-center 06:13 Understanding and overcoming external torque in lifts 08:22 Understanding torque for better jumping performance 12:59 Understanding torque distribution on the body while lifting weights. 15:15 Longer limbs require more torque to lift the same weight. 19:26 Understanding torque and its impact on internal force application. 22:12 Shorter people can lift more weight due to external torque variations. 25:41 Shorter individuals may need to generate more torque in order to lift the same weight as taller individuals. 27:31 Leverage and torque impact jumping ability.

I'm here to learn about torque from myself

As an aside for after this video has like 10k+ views, I am NOT a physics professor so if there's something you super nerds catch that I messed up feel free to comment below my mistake! Thanks!

Been doing plyos for 2 months and got from just touching the backboard to dunking a tennis ball at 5'11"

This is why I love jump training that dives deep into numbers like this because at the end of the day, it's just about math and physic formula. You match the number, you jump that high.

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Very interesting but I would add, as I understand it, that you could have two people with identical lever systems and that can both move the same weight (say in a squat) but if one of them can move it significantly faster in the critical window where the levers are longest relative to the direction of external force necessary for the movement, that one will be able to jump significantly higher than the other one. This relates to speed of muscle recruitment and ultimately power output. I've seen references to explosive athletes being told to target moving a weight (in the right weight range for an athlete of a specific size and weight) at between .2 and .5 m/s in that critical maximum leverage window. I'm no expert but am very interested in the subject. Have you ever seen strongman Dennis Rogers? Studies show that his otherworldly strength to size ratio is due to his speed in recruiting motor units to a specific force output which is absolutely freakish. Cheers.

Amazing video

Thanks john

such an underrated content

Bro, his stuff is golden… I’m just finding out about you and loving the vids. I want to increase my vert, but my left ankle for some reason lacks the same mobility as right and I’m getting up there in age (38)… is it too late?

17:50 that’s why it’s called the patella tendon and not patella ligaments even though it connects bone to bone. Because the function of it is to aid movement by increasing torque

So it’s effort, force, power since thoughts attracts we have created a life

Random musings... Long levers have a huge advantage for exit velocity. You travel more distance for a given joint angulation and thus have more time to produce force for a given exit velocity. Imagine throwing a baseball with a forearm twice as long; your pitch would take longer to complete, but would likely have a significantly higher speed. In jumping imagine someone with legs half as long; even if they could get their torques equivalent to Isaiah's on squat (squatting 2x as much-ish) they would still jump significantly lower due to insane RFD requirements, at least. I'm thinking of "interesting" comparisons... Jumping insects and frogs have crazy long legs...they jump many times their height but that's probably largely a cube/square thing, think house cat vs Tiger. Tiger jumps higher on absolute scale but lower on relative scale. A 12 foot tall Isaiah can jump higher than 50" but much lower relative to their own skeleton. Are there any comparisons out there of ground contact times vs leg length? Or jump height relative to leg length?

I have pfp in my left knee, to the point where it hurts badly doing a light knee extension isometric, but right knee is healthy. Should I just do isometrics on the right leg for now?

I just imagined myself getting a power level scouter like Vegita’s in Dragon Ball Z and going to the gym and reading basketball player’s power levels. “Power level 3400 newtons!” 😂 😂 😂

when your knee pain goes away how should you start doing plyometrics again?

The progress brother elite athlete, free guideance and now teaching university level biomechanics. Kids dont know what they have. Back in the day it was a pdf copy of airalert 2.0

I am currently stuck at 31-34 inch vertical. If I fix my form to make it look like yours will I be able to get up to 40 inches within 1-2weeks? Or is that just wishful thinking?

I can dunk at 5'6", 168cm, my standing reach is about 7'3" and my max deep squat is 295lbs, I wonder what it is about me that might make me an exception to this general rule (needing to squat a lot more as a shorter person to jump as high), since from a glance I have the same proportions as Isaiah - just scaled down (Torso : Femur : Tibia, ratios seem the same)... even when it comes down to the arm length, oversized traps and big heinie. I will measure myself in lab conditions though just to be certain 28:14.

All of the logic applied here confirms Wilt Chamberlain jumped very high. He already could jump 44-45", and he was very strong and had great leverages and tall height. I mean Bill Russell was also a world-class athlete who had a mid 40's vertical, but no one disputes that.

Bro must get sick of saying 50.5 lmao

What are the worst dunks that regularly get perfect scores in dunk contests? (Pro dunk contests not nba)

dunk session video when???

Can anyone explain the video and what I can do, to maybe increase my torque

I'm 5'8.5" and my femur is longer than Isiah's at 18 inches :o my tibia is shorter than my femur, and so I have lean over a bit even in a high bar squat

Isaiah with beard>

Interesting ! Does that mean that taller athletes (longer limbs) benefit more from bodyweight plyometrics than shorter athletes or have quicker results from that type of training?

May I ask how to deal with Achilles tendinopathy?

Im curious, have you guys ever ran into an 45+ vertical athlete that was just naturally that bouncy (never touched a weight).

I can't imagine what happens in the tendon of someone like Mutaz Barshim when he jumps; if he tore his patellar tendon he would probably generate an explosion

My torque is the same as Isaiah so does that mean I can jump just as high as I you guys one day?

does this mean that shorter people need to put into more work to get higher numbers in weight room?

Is Isaiah the Dom Toretto of jump torque?

Is there a useful takeaway that I missed?

Still waiting for Isaiah to respond to my comments

So according to this, when Isaiah jumps he merely pushes the earth down 50.5 inches 🤔🤓😂 jk

Ahhhh I’m going to be a giant attacking the weight room! LETS-FRIGGIN-GOOO!!!!

Man Titans got that crazy torque 🤣

john you should grow your beard out

Can anyone explain the video and what I can do to, maybe increase my torque

I just imagined myself getting a power level scouter like Vegita’s in Dragon Ball Z and going to the gym and reading basketball player’s power levels. “Power level 3400 newtons!” 😂 😂 😂

May I ask how to deal with Achilles tendinopathy?