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Callen's Impressive Jumping Ability

A discussion about Callen's exceptional jumping skills, particularly on one leg, and how it compares to his parkour abilities. The speakers express surprise at his natural talent and speculate on his overall jumping capacity.

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Speaker 2
like that guy could triple jump incredibly if you went out and did it
Speaker 1
and track yeah he's always kind of very chunky style of parkour as well and yeah when I shared Brady's six foot one uh he uh he did he beat it Callen deliberately when he did I was like oh good look I don't but it's like Callen is a real real good jumper and better than me but I didn't think it was that much better than me but like on that one leg what he's capable of is it's just yeah like it's so like just level it's like okay that's interesting to me because yeah the the level that he's been up for so long it was interesting to see it be reflected in something like a single leg altitude drop because yeah he stuck it from you went just over six foot I think and uh yes it's almost like do it does the altitude drop to one leg does it reflect the jumping capacity of an individual that much because yeah he's probably that much better than the out parkour how much better he is at the single leg drop yeah he is similar in the level of our sport as well like I'd say I'm I'm intermediate or high intermediate perhaps I don't know I'm I've trained very broadly I've known as specialized in things so yeah could I be better at certain things yeah maybe I could do some hard things like then whereas Callen is in advanced athlete it has been an advanced for a long long time and like when I was like oh I think you'll struggle more than you think he didn't believe me for a second but oh no I know it's fine and he did do it and he's never trained him yeah oh that's interesting yeah
Speaker 2
it it does make me think that really single leg is in terms of like athleticism sprinting jumping off on leg triple jump long jump like maybe single leg is a little bit more of a thing with that and I know I also I remember that my best year in track college track and high jumping and triple jump triple jump I have a lot um I was doing a lot of just single leg hurdle hops um like pretty not not drops but I mean within each one is basically almost a drop I mean there's not that many degrees of difference to be honest um and in wait and for me it was actually more more to be very tough
Speaker 1
to get over hurdles and still attack the ground like I think it's a definite weakness for me like I um yeah you talk about I've tried some uh little hops that I think it's about single leg it's tough
Speaker 2
yeah do you think um you know just curious do you think that that um is anything to do with your background or more maybe your build like you strike me as someone who's more the strength the bilateral strength type athlete more so than like a obviously a lanky jumper like a track jumper or something yeah exactly
Speaker 1
like I'm five foot five I'm pretty built for my size just through not through aiming to be just from training like yeah the idea of the gymnastic strength space training and things like that and just generally training to be stronger is something that I've enjoyed um so yeah kind of my my frame is not that of and I'll eat jump like that's for sure um something that I do find with a single leg drop so if my century rate of force was faster like if I could so I don't have great ankle mobility and with the single leg drops it felt like I ran out of ankle mobility before I could decelerate
Speaker 2
that
Speaker 1
makes sense don't like yeah I couldn't go into a not I obviously aiming to land relatively stiff but I felt like I couldn't even I couldn't attenuate the force enough in the time that I had available um in my joint angles type of thing like well how much I could flex um which might be just being an excuse but that's what it felt like yeah it felt uh yeah I just couldn't so yeah if my if I could produce more force quickly to decelerate then I'd be okay but I couldn't so it was yeah greatly reduced compared to my
Speaker 2
higher drops yeah that makes sense why it might have been easier for you to just bounce or it felt easier to bounce out of a eight foot high drop because like if your ankles are running out of doors or natural door deflection range early it does make it a lot harder to stick that landing because now you can't use the ankle as much you got to like bend over more at the hips or something it just and then single leg just compounds it you don't have as much on other places to work that uh with the single leg as well yeah
Speaker 1
again can't hide what you say like I've been really sadly can't you can't really you can't hide on one leg it really highlights um yeah any issues that you
Speaker 2
have yeah um so tell me a little bit about the strength impact so you said you had done like a like a more of a strength cycle prior deadlifting try to get triple body weight um when you were doing all these drops and working up were you how much was lifting a part of your program then and then and the aftermath of that how did you notice um strength like just weight room strength
Speaker 1
um i've heard of people talk about quite so I didn't get any weaker it didn't drop off but I didn't I didn't experience any uh notable strength gain saying my squat already thin my squat sits just just below two and a half times body weight so that's another factor in the ability to take the drops maybe is more of a strength base uh yeah if you're getting squat one time your body weight uh the drop is going to be as effective maybe maybe not but I didn't and then maybe someone who can only squat one times their body weight and maybe they get a strength increase in their squat from doing the drops because there's more room to the crossover there but yeah I I was I can't really remember when I was using so I what actually that that's what at least one day a week I was using a flywheel to squat and I was purposefully doing like eccentric overload as well like methods that would be centricly overload that first quarter or half so kind of a full range spot into a half squat full range spot into a half squat and to eccentrically overload like yet trying develop my eccentric capacity in that range and I think yeah I was squatting normally another time another day yeah and so I didn't I think a week I had a thing it's stronger it's seen relatively ineffective for me um which makes sense because of that emphasis on the squats but um yeah no no detriment over gotcha yeah I'm
Speaker 2
curious

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