I sometimes wonder if Matt London ever reads any of the other threads on Letsrun or if he even knows what distance running is.
My guess is he just posts his thread and then immediately leaves the message board.
I ran distance 1993 till 2015. And also 400 meter dashes. That's pretty much the only reason why i'm not getting 45 to 46 inches in this right now from a stand still.
When you measure via 1-arm the ability to rotate your shoulders and sneak 1 arm higher than the other is about a 4" delta
And you were nowhere near 6" over the rim
If I was nowhere near 6 inches over the rim on the paused frame. Then what's your calculation on how much I was over the rim? Just round down instead of up.
Damn I just jumped higher than 75 percent of NBA players and pretty much 93 percent of all NHL players dating back to 1890.
At 43 years old.
Compared to 24-37 year olds.
Don't have exact percentages on the NFL yet. I'll have to research NFL stats dating back to 1990 for the NFL combine and compare how i'm jumping against NFL players at similiar body weights.
I'm hoping to get at least a 28 percent number. Meaning hopefully i'm doing better than 28.93 percent of NFL players at similiar body weights. The NFL is going to be alot tougher to compare to.
So we'll see. I'll have to do my research over the next month and come up with a reply for this.
They jump with one arm in NFL combines. So not too sure what you're talking about. But ok cool.
Also just to give you all an indication on how much of an improvement this is for me.
Here's the 27.5 inch PR video from August 2020. At 5'11 and 209 LBS.
I've not missed a workout since 1991. So it's not like I just recently started working out or something. And that's why i'm now getting 30.75 or something.
Strong work brother. I’m still reading and processing this post, but I’m already jealous that your local stores have 71° air temp; I’d be inclined to squat there to save money on electricity this summer ;) haha. 30 inches is a big milestone, you bet that can transfer to your sprinting ability
Yeah it is so far. My PR in the 20yd dash hand timed was 1.96 this past November 25th, 2022. Just this week I ran 2.00, 2.00, 2.00, 2.00, 2.03, 2.03, and 2.06.
Ran 2.00 a total of 4 times in a row. Which is very close to a PR for the 20 for amount of times in a row that I get the same exact time. I think 5 times in a row was my PR for the 20.
But the thing was that there wasn't any wind at all. I always run exactly .10 of a second faster with winds up to 15mph. I don't really count anything with anything over 15mph winds.
So the 1.96 was done with 15mph winds. This means that this 2.00 with no wind is just about a 1.90 with a decent wind. But yet again I ran that 1.96 with temps around 46 degrees out. So didn't have the heat factor. Need 95 degrees heat and above to run my fastest times. Combined with 15mph winds. Then I should be able to get around 1.85 hand timed.
30.75 inches in the standing vertical jump at 5'11 and 217 LBS. The first jump was the PR. The second two jumps were around an inch lower. But both of those were still higher than my previous PR that took me years to get.
I stood under the hoop and measured exactly 24.25 inches from the top of the rim. I then jumped 6.5 inches over the top of the rim. Previous PR was 28.5 inches. And previous PR before that was 26.5 inches.
My best from 2009 till 2020 had only been 24.5 to 26.5....
This is getting crazy for me. Improving my vertical has been one of the most diffulcult things for me to do. I'm literally always getting like 1 inch below my previous PR of 28.5.. So 99 percent of the time out of the year i'm doing around 26 to 27.
All of my calculations are adding up finally. I knew that I would continue to recover from distance and gradually get stronger well into my 40s, I just didn't know where the cutoff point would be at, the point where I just got too old to improve.
And this past week I did 360 for 3 on bench equivalent on the smith machine. Meaning 210 on the smith for 3 with one arm.. Bar weighs 30 so it was 180 of real weight for 3 with one arm. Which was really easy. Felt like I could have gone to 370 for 3. My PR in that is 375 for 3 from last summer. So looks like I should be close to a bench PR as well. With a bounce though. Not paused. Still getting close to PRs for me on that even with the bounce.
The temp in the store was only 71. And I didn't do my standard 8 by 35 yard dashes before doing this. Usually after doing 8 by 35 yard dashes I broad jump the best. And I need hot temps to get my broad jump near PRs. So I don't know what I can do in the vertical now if I do it in the right conditions of 93 degree temps and high humidity and after doing 8 by 35 yard dashes.
Also I don't know how this compares to an NFL combine vertical because it seems like it would be easier to try and jump up and move one of the levers so that I have a point to go for. Seems like I could get a bit more on an NFL combine test. I really need to get one of those NFL combine vertical devices. But they are around 650 dollars I think. Which sucks.
Also another slight factor going against me was that I was wearing cargo shorts. Probably not much of a difference there though.
But I don't see any reason why I couldn't get 31 or 32 on this given the right conditions..... The heat, humidity, after doing the standard 8 by 35 yard dashes to fully warm up, and in just spandex shorts...........
Also someone mentioned something about jumping shoes. I'm going to have to see if there are any shoes out there that could give me any type of advantage in this. Like a quarter to a half inch is all i'm asking for. But damn. I can't believe I got this.
I've been doing this one hip speed squat thing at the gym and that seems to be working really good. I'll post a video on what that looks like later.
I'll have to see what this does to my times on the track in the 10,20, 35, 40yds, and 60 meters. Not doing anything over 60 this year. Have been doing that since 2015.
One thing I think I can work on more is throwing my hands down faster. So i'm going to do banded throw downs as fast as possible to work on that. And more lat pulls. I need to get my lats stronger. My upper back and lats really aren't that strong due to the distance. Never really had time to develop them.
I'll write more about this later. But this is good enough for right now. All time PR and i'm so pumped up about this right now due to the diffulculty level for me in improving this by literally anything at all.
Have you had these measurements verified by a third party? Say a Wal-Mart employee.
Also, does the 30.75 account for the springiness of the floor in WalMart? I used to own a company that installed floors for WalMart. Their floor specs involve a return factor that they use that is supposedly easier on the legs in order to keep people shopping longer according to their research.
Why do you say it in a way as if something is wrong with Wal-Mart? I'm confused here. What exactly is wrong with Wal-Mart?
This. Walmart is well known in the Vertical jump community for having springy floors
Ok so update is PR in the 20 yard dash. Tied my PR from Nov 25th of 1.96 hand timed. So the vertical correlated to PRs on the track like I knew it would.
Nowhere near PRs in the gym though because i'm currently having my workout ruined by my 76 year old second cousin who's playing games and somehow finds a way to ruin my workout every week either by not answering the phone on purpose therefore making me call up to 200 times per day or by answering the phone and crying wolf and pretending that she needs help with something when she actually doesn't and making me drive up to 2 hours at a time to go help her with pretty much nothing when I get there.
Or pretending that she needs to add in an additional pill to the 28 pills she takes per day for all of her so called problems which include paranoid schizophrenia in addition to stage 7 out of 7 dementia, which means very severe cognitive decline, and about another 20 problems she claims to have. And go to 29 or something.
Somehow I found out that she's been doing these scams for around 50 years straight since she stays home all day and pretty much hasn't worked a day in her life.
She's been pretty much at stage 7 out of 7 though on the dementia since she was 58, so nothing new there.
Therefore making me go out of my way for nothing.
I'm pretty much good with her cry wolf scam though since I just blocked her number so I don't have to deal with her anymore.................
So I should be good to get my full workout in at the gym like I usually do.
Haven't got my full gym workout in, in like a month now I think. So looking to really focus in and get back to near my PRs in everything at the gym. I'm either plus 10 or negative 10. Meaning 10 LBS over average or 10 LBS below average at the gym. Which is still 10 LBS off of my PRs. But I go with that over or under 10 thing.
Now because of her scams i'm negative 20-25 LBS on everything. So I should be well below 1.96 in the 20yd dash once I get back to within that plus 10 or negative 10 range at the gym that i'm usually at. So I just need to get all of my sets and reps done even if they aren't 100 percent all out on every rep like I usually do. So just need to go 85 percent on everything for right now.
And really need to go heavier in half rep hip squats to get my broad jump and vertical better. I'm nowhere near my PR now in the vertical. I'm about 2.5 inches off. But that's still only a half of an inch off of my old PR in the vertical which lasted a long time.
I need to get the half rep hip squats over 750 LBS somehow even if that means going to just quarter reps on it.
Why do you say it in a way as if something is wrong with Wal-Mart? I'm confused here. What exactly is wrong with Wal-Mart?
This. Walmart is well known in the Vertical jump community for having springy floors
Ok so update is.
Did 29.75 inches this past week. About an inch off my PR.
Also got 360 LBS for 3 reps with a bounce on one arm smith machine bench equivalent bench press at 5'11 and 219 LBS.
My PR is 375 LBS for 3 reps at similiar body weights from 2022.
Did .78 in the 10yd dash. Hand timed.
And ran 3.69 in the 35yd dash at 5'11 and 217. My PR is 3.65 and 3.66 from 2021. Hand timed. So really close to a PR in the 35yd dash. There are some years I don't break 3.85.
Also deadlifted my standard 505 for 5 reps.
Also ran close to PRs again in the 20yd dash. Ran 2.00 hand timed. Need 1.79 to 1.89 range though hand timed. I need to somehow break my PR of 375 for 3 on bench this year and do at least 390 for 3.........//
This. Walmart is well known in the Vertical jump community for having springy floors
Ok so update is.
Did 29.75 inches this past week. About an inch off my PR.
Also got 360 LBS for 3 reps with a bounce on one arm smith machine bench equivalent bench press at 5'11 and 219 LBS.
My PR is 375 LBS for 3 reps at similiar body weights from 2022.
Did .78 in the 10yd dash. Hand timed.
And ran 3.69 in the 35yd dash at 5'11 and 217. My PR is 3.65 and 3.66 from 2021. Hand timed. So really close to a PR in the 35yd dash. There are some years I don't break 3.85.
Also deadlifted my standard 505 for 5 reps.
Also ran close to PRs again in the 20yd dash. Ran 2.00 hand timed. Need 1.79 to 1.89 range though hand timed. I need to somehow break my PR of 375 for 3 on bench this year and do at least 390 for 3.........//
That's a good point poosmacker. What happened Matt - was it the tape measure you used? I know that if you measure your height at different times of day you can get different results due to walking around/time etc.
This. Walmart is well known in the Vertical jump community for having springy floors
Ok so update is.
Did 29.75 inches this past week. About an inch off my PR.
Also got 360 LBS for 3 reps with a bounce on one arm smith machine bench equivalent bench press at 5'11 and 219 LBS.
My PR is 375 LBS for 3 reps at similiar body weights from 2022.
Did .78 in the 10yd dash. Hand timed.
And ran 3.69 in the 35yd dash at 5'11 and 217. My PR is 3.65 and 3.66 from 2021. Hand timed. So really close to a PR in the 35yd dash. There are some years I don't break 3.85.
Also deadlifted my standard 505 for 5 reps.
Also ran close to PRs again in the 20yd dash. Ran 2.00 hand timed. Need 1.79 to 1.89 range though hand timed. I need to somehow break my PR of 375 for 3 on bench this year and do at least 390 for 3.........//
Looks like Father Time has gotten the best of you. He remains undefeated even against the best.