Originally Posted by
sanjuro_ronin
Energy from where?
Produced by what?
Muscles.
You do realize that the only way to "strengthen" tendons is by "load baring activities", yes?
There are methods of training that can increase the amount of energy released by the tendon in proportion to the muscle, i.e., training the tendons.
I know they have successfully trained basketball and volleyball jumpers to jump higher using this method of training. For example, holding a medicine ball, then dropping down by releasing your knees, then before you stop, changing direction and frog jumping.
Or doing dips, and with your arms straight, using just the flex in your muscles, pop your hands up off the bar, then land, an repeat as long as you can.
There's a name, plyometric? or something like that, for the training.
I think it not unfamiliar to SPM or Pak Mei either.
So, yes, you train the muscles, but the way you train changes the physiology too. Like fast twitch training and slow twitch...
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