tendons, not muscle...

[bawang]

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It would not be a bad idea to start easy and work up to more intense forms of plyometrics, but the idea one must squat or deadlift a specific amount before one attempts to perform plyometrics is just silly!

one must squat or deadlift a specific amount before one attempts to perform plyometrics

[Scott R. Brown]

one must squat or deadlift a specific amount before one attempts to perform plyometrics

Tell that to a Ballet Dancer arguably the most able leapers there are!

But go ahead and blindly follow the ignorant masses if you wish!

[bawang]

Tell that to a Ballet Dancer arguably the most able leapers there are!

I have found a ballet dancer and told her, she said I am right.

[Scott R. Brown]

I have found a ballet dancer and told her, she said I am right.

Did you ask her how much she can squat?

[bawang]

Did you ask her how much she can squat?

she can squat YO MAMA POOSY

[pazman]

Did you ask her how much she can squat?

Frost mentioned it earlier but for plyometrics (not just "leaping") to be safe and effective, a minimal standard of basic strength is required. Any professional dancer I've known does squats, and being able to squat 1.5x or 2x bodyweight really isn't an issue for them. In fact, getting 1.5x bodyweight is a pretty simple process. I'd be very surprised if somebody practices martial arts for more than a year and hasn't geared their training to hit this relatively modest goal.

[Scott R. Brown]

Frost mentioned it earlier but for plyometrics (not just "leaping") to be safe and effective, a minimal standard of basic strength is required. Any professional dancer I've known does squats, and being able to squat 1.5x or 2x bodyweight really isn't an issue for them. In fact, getting 1.5x bodyweight is a pretty simple process. I'd be very surprised if somebody practices martial arts for more than a year and hasn't geared their training to hit this relatively modest goal.

Not historically, weight training for athletes and dancers etc is still a modern phenomenon. It is unnecessary to have that kind of strength base in order to perform plymetrics.

It just is not true or necessary, but as I said before, feel free to limit yourself accordingly.

[IronFist]

In fact, getting 1.5x bodyweight is a pretty simple process. I'd be very surprised if somebody practices martial arts for more than a year and hasn't geared their training to hit this relatively modest goal.

I would be willing to bet that more than 50% of martial artists who train at a McDojo for more than a year cannot squat 1.5x bodyweight. But I don't mean the people who also strength train.

Most people cannot squat 1.5x bodyweight, or even their own bodyweight, without specific strength training.