Think your in shape? How do you pair up with the rest of us?

[Robert schmitt]

gese i was reading all of this "stuff" it is so confusing. I don't lift, at all. I use to wrestle and I lifted then but once I started pole vault it just all stoped for some reason. Is that realy bad? I have been improving rapidly and not doing any weight lifting? i don't know, all of these numbers are just, numbers to me

For as much and often as I lift I don't recomend it to any of my vaulters. For me lifting hurts my pole vault, When I vaulted my best in college was after our new pole vault coach banned me from the wieght room. You'll do fine if you do gymnastic work and vault.

[vaultinggoat16]

Hip sleds add a horizontal vector to the lift so it pretty much 1/2's or more the wieght you do..I can not do it very well because I am short and the machine is long...

-B

[Robert schmitt]

Hip sleds add a horizontal vector to the lift so it pretty much 1/2's or more the wieght you do..

-B

I've heard that too, and it's probably fairly acurrate.

[vaultinggoat16]

It is just a matter of physics I'm not in a lame enough mood to actually bother doing the vectoring...but it really does cut down on the actual wieght since how the horizontal motion relieves some of the wieght..Goes from a X vector to a X and Y vector


-B

[fong520]

... im only a soph in hs... we dont learn this stuff hahah

[bjvando]

im a JR in college and STILL havent learned that... or maybe i was supposed to.......

[jhesch]

vector physics is rather easy for me. just applyin pythagorean theorem and some basic trig.-stuff im learnin in high school physics. however, if you start talkin about rates of change in terms of this hip-sled, I haven't taken calculus-based physics, though i am in calc, although i would like to and find that stuff interesting.

[Robert schmitt]

Don't forget to take in acct. the coeffiecent for friction for the sled riding on the rails

[lonestar]

For as much and often as I lift I don't recomend it to any of my vaulters. For me lifting hurts my pole vault, When I vaulted my best in college was after our new pole vault coach banned me from the wieght room. You'll do fine if you do gymnastic work and vault.

I agree Robert. I'm a total weakling, but in college I benched around 245 weighing 150, squatted 350ish, and cleaned about 150, but only vaulted 14'0 on the average, 14'6 twice from a 16 step run. The other day I layed on a bench and tried to press a warmup set of 10 reps with 135, and barely got the last 2 reps up - I'd be lucky if I could bench 200lbs on a one rep max these days. I haven't done weights or a sprint workout in 2 years, yet now I'm vaulting 15'0-15'6 consistently from a 14 step run on poles 20lbs heavier and I only weigh 5lbs more than I did in college. All I have done is vault 1-3 times a week, mainly from short runs of 6 steps. Do strength and speed play an important role? Absolutely, but there's a lot to be said for good technique.

[tim hutzley]

im bumping it like becca (^ bump)

[KYLE ELLIS]

I can hold my breath for 3 min. and 27 sec. and gauruntee that i can beat anone on this board in swimming

[wacky274]

ellis, in what swimming events? lol