The "Bradstock" Jump Squat: Is it a safe and effective exercise?

I have been a personal trainer for over 20 years, have trained numerous
Olympic Gold Medalists, World Champions and World Record Holders. I am
a two time Olympian and two time World Record holder ( in the javelin
throw ). I was born with spina bifida, am now 46 and am still
competing. I have never had any back or knee surgery. This is the only
lower body weight exercise I do.

YouTube video link:

The "Bradstock" Jump Squat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPUN1C7V3B0

I have never told any of my clients to do this exercise or shown any of
my athletes what I do. I have found it is an amazinlgly effective
exercise for building explosive power without bulking or tightening up?


I believe this exercise would be great for golfers, pitcher, batters -
indeed anything that requires a maximum effort.

On other forums I have posted this question on I have had everything
from insults hurled at me to engaging questions.

What do you think on this forum?




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roald62

Dnia 2008-05-12 roald62 napisa³(a):
>
> I have been a personal trainer for over 20 years, have trained numerous
> Olympic Gold Medalists, World Champions and World Record Holders. I am
> a two time Olympian and two time World Record holder ( in the javelin
> throw ). I was born with spina bifida, am now 46 and am still
> competing. I have never had any back or knee surgery. This is the only
> lower body weight exercise I do.
>
> YouTube video link:
>
> The "Bradstock" Jump Squat:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPUN1C7V3B0
>
> I have never told any of my clients to do this exercise or shown any of
> my athletes what I do. I have found it is an amazinlgly effective
> exercise for building explosive power without bulking or tightening up?
>
>
> I believe this exercise would be great for golfers, pitcher, batters -
> indeed anything that requires a maximum effort.
>
> On other forums I have posted this question on I have had everything
> from insults hurled at me to engaging questions.
>
> What do you think on this forum?

I think, that this exercise is safe when performed safely, but if enough
people would do it, there would be quite a number of those who injured
themselves with this thing. Why not simply do behind the neck jerks?
Or push-jerks, for that matter? What is the advantage of your version
of squat over those proved and effective exercises? Higher loads,
maybe, but addition of real squats would obviously counter this slight
advantage totally.

IOW there are reasons why some exercises are done very rarely. They are
simply not worth being done more often.

(Though I have to admit that I've seen record holding high jumper doing
something similar. He didn't try to jump as much as performed very
explosive and very shallow "squats", his heel breaking contact with the
floor AFAIR, but not really jumping. Too much at stake if he landed
incorrectly? Possibly.)

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Andrzej Rosa 1127R

"roald62" <roald62.26d9a61@fitnessbanter.com> wrote in message
news:roald62.26d9a61@fitnessbanter.com...
>
> I have been a personal trainer for over 20 years, have trained
> numerous
> Olympic Gold Medalists, World Champions and World Record Holders. I am
> a two time Olympian and two time World Record holder ( in the javelin
> throw ). I was born with spina bifida, am now 46 and am still
> competing. I have never had any back or knee surgery. This is the only
> lower body weight exercise I do.
>
> YouTube video link:
>
> The "Bradstock" Jump Squat:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPUN1C7V3B0
>
> I have never told any of my clients to do this exercise or shown any
> of
> my athletes what I do. I have found it is an amazinlgly effective
> exercise for building explosive power without bulking or tightening
> up?
>
>
> I believe this exercise would be great for golfers, pitcher, batters -
> indeed anything that requires a maximum effort.
>
> On other forums I have posted this question on I have had everything
> from insults hurled at me to engaging questions.
>
> What do you think on this forum?

It's a fine exercise, and you are undoubtedly a great athlete. Whether
this is the perfect solution to every need on the planet is another
question, and I'm sure the answer is no. I have seen Valery Fedorenko,
a world-record-holding Girevoy (Kettlebell) Sport athlete, do this very
exercise. Since his focus is strength/endurance, he advises doing it
for 30-50 reps with a lighter weight, He says he does it for upwards of
100 reps in his own training.

I have neither insult nor engaging question, I'm afraid.

-S-
http://www.kbnj.com

On Mon, 12 May 2008, roald62 wrote:

> The "Bradstock" Jump Squat:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPUN1C7V3B0
>
> What do you think on this forum?

I think that lift is serious business!

Someone here mentioned that tendons get stronger in response to brief,
strong loads - shocks, effectively - rather than the prolonged loads
generated by orthodox lifting. If that's true, your lift will do more for
tendons that conventional lifting, which means that in the long run, it
should actually be safer, since your connective tissues will be stronger.

You've just got to make sure your back is safe.

But:

> I believe this exercise would be great for golfers, pitcher, batters -
> indeed anything that requires a maximum effort.

Golfers? I don't tend to think of golf as a power sport!

tom

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Argumentative and pedantic, oh, yes. Although it's properly called
"correct" -- Huge

On May 12, 12:58 pm, Tom Anderson <t...@urchin.earth.li> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008, roald62 wrote:
> > The "Bradstock" Jump Squat:
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPUN1C7V3B0
>
> > What do you think on this forum?
>
> I think that lift is serious business!
>
> Someone here mentioned that tendons get stronger in response to brief,
> strong loads - shocks, effectively - rather than the prolonged loads
> generated by orthodox lifting. If that's true, your lift will do more for
> tendons that conventional lifting, which means that in the long run, it
> should actually be safer, since your connective tissues will be stronger.
>
> You've just got to make sure your back is safe.
>
> But:
>
> > I believe this exercise would be great for golfers, pitcher, batters -
> > indeed anything that requires a maximum effort.
>
> Golfers? I don't tend to think of golf as a power sport!
>
> tom
>
> --
> Argumentative and pedantic, oh, yes. Although it's properly called
> "correct" -- Huge

Wow I've actually never seen this done before. Hey if your joints
hold up and everything then I suppose go for it.