feet on squat jumps

[chiquita6683]

So today I had a guy shadowing my trainer and I, bc he's becoming a trainer......
I had never done this exercise before but I was standing on this big square thing, I had a big belt with elastic ropes attached on either side for resistance. He had me squat down and jump up for a minute a few times.
Anyway after I was done, the guy shadowing told me when I landed/squated I was turning my feet out, on the sides with my arches up a little and that he did it too.
Is there anything wrong with that? Does it matter that I do it?

 

[chiquita6683]

Also.... when I do calves or even squats at times, the middle of my foot gets really really tight. It feels better when I do a calf stretch.
Patrick?

 

[P-funk]

Okay, I read your question a few hours ago. Scratched my head and went to train a few clients.

Then I came back and read it again. Scratched my head some more.

Here is what I got for ya:

a) Why the hell are you jumping on the vertec anyway? What are you training for and how does that fit into your training. I just don't see the point unless you are training for a specific sport and even still, I don't see the point unless you did a phase of training where you learned how to land first, prior to having this thing pull you down to the ground faster.

b) I am not fully understanding what you mean by turning the feet our during landing. You mean like externally rotating or you mean like inverting your foot - like rolling to the outer edge of the foot. If that is the case then yea, that is horrible! You are setting yourself up for an inversion sprain. Good thing you had to trainers working with you and they didn't correct it!

c) Mid-foot tension may be tension in the plantar fascia. When stretching the calf, you are dorsiflexing the foot, placing a stretch on the plantar fascia, which is probably why it feels good.


Patrick

 

[chiquita6683]

Thank you Patrick!
He changes things up all the time, he loves to challenge me, I love it too.
Plus I think he was showing off for the guy shadowing us bc he knows I'll do everything he tells me to. I'm not training for anything in particular but I love being in shape Now I just need to get my diet in check
I don't think I landed like that but rolled it out while I was squatting, rolling to the outer edge. Really I could sprain it? Hows that?

 

[P-funk]

Thank you Patrick!
He changes things up all the time, he loves to challenge me, I love it too.
Plus I think he was showing off for the guy shadowing us bc he knows I'll do everything he tells me to. I'm not training for anything in particular but I love being in shape Now I just need to get my diet in check
I don't think I landed like that but rolled it out while I was squatting, rolling to the outer edge. Really I could sprain it? Hows that?

if you are rolling to the outside the ankle (meaning the medial part of the foot is coming up a little) into supination/inversin you can absolutely sprain it! Inversion sprain is the most common ankle sprain there is - ever just step off the side of a curb wrong and roll your ankle?

if you are going to do plyos, learn to land properly and stabilize. the vertec is a resisted jumping mechanism, IMO you have to earn the right to be on that thing.

Patrick

 

[Merkaba]

Get a new trainer.

 

[T_man]

I sprained my ankle like that playing basketball.
I'm a point guard but I found myself covering the power forward's position, and I'm not the tallest of players at 5"11 but I can jump high. So I found myself vs their centre running up and laying up for a shot but I bust a nut to block the shot but as I came down, my right ankle was slightly rolled outwards and landed with all my weight on that one foot. Blam!
I thought I had an open dislocation on my right ankle - thats how much it hurt but it went numb and I couldn't feel it move, but I looked at it and it was still intact!
I couldn't walk for 3 days.

But anyways, yea, watch your landing according to my story if it's even relevant. I'm not sure it's even talking about the same thing.