Thanks for your post Jean-Paul and also everyone else that has posted.
Yes this is indeed a good forum, with people that are interestied in discussion unlike some other forums - yikes - I had no idea I would get some of the reactions and personal attacks. But that in itself was an interesting experience.
The title of my post was a two part question: Is this exercise safe and is it effecitive? I showed myself doing a set of jump squats with a lot of weight. Almost everyone focused on the weight and only the weight which obviously is part of the equation but what about the actual movement itself?
My thinking is that yes there is an increased risk as the weight increases but the limited range I was working in reduces that risk. I was in a rack, I had warmed up and I had done several periodizations cycles leading up to what you saw on the video. I am an experieced athlete, coach and trainer and I have a very specific reason for doing that exercise / movement and with that much weight. I had weighed up the risk / reward ratio for myself.
I am not claiming to be some guru. I am always experiementing - on myself - to work around the growing number of physical restrictions I have to over come and to see what new effective exercises I can create. Also, to keep things fresh. I always ask questions of myself and others. All you have to do is to look at my YouTube videos to see that.
My training as an artist is to look, to watch, to ask questions - thats what I do. To grow we must be open to new things and as Captin Kirk would say: " To seek out and boldly go.." I do not believe everything is written in Stone. The fitness Industry is so, so new still.
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