Most people who've trained for years assume their results reflect their ceiling. In 8 weeks, this client improved their Abalakov jump by 36% from 23.7 to 32.2 cm. Not because they were the most naturally gifted, but because the gap between their existing capacity and what had actually been trained was the largest.
The Abalakov measures full-body explosive coordination: how well your arm swing, hip drive, and ankle stiffness sequence together to produce maximum height. Most training never directly develops this quality. Strength programs build the engine. Cardio builds the fuel system. But the coordinative timing that connects them is almost universally undertrained.
What the 8-week Power phase did was target that exact link. Through contrast training and plyometric progressions, the nervous system learned to sequence the movement as one unified action rather than isolated parts firing in rough proximity. The 26% CMJ gain happening alongside tells you that raw lower- body power went up. But the whole system adapted together: the Hop Test RSI, a measure of reactive strength and spring-like elastic ability, also improved by 40% in the same block.The less a quality has been trained, the faster it responds when you finally train it correctly.
The 43% gain means the elastic system woke up. Specifically three things happened:
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