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Message: [QUOTE="SUskibum, post: 5629649, member: 149"] One of the all time renowned strength coaches, particularly across olympic 'power dominated' sports, Charles Poliquin 'Strength Sensei' [URL="https://www.youtube.com/c/StrengthSensei"]Strength Sensei[/URL], would tell you it's from the training dogma that was dominant from the 1980's for the next 40ish years. The main idea, particulary for lower body was that squats and other leg press type movements should be restricted so that the hips go farther back and the shins stay more upright, supposedly helping take stress off the knees. The problem with this adjustment is the the back gets extra stress and you never load the ankle in full flexion (which would require the knees traveling over the toes which was a no-no for decades) If you consistantly load the ankle (and knee) in a shorter than natural range of motion, and then play a sport that stresses those joints beyond the trained range of motion, you get issues (duh!). For example, look at Angeli's foot/ankle angle when he plants on his injury, he was asking for maximum torque while his ankle was a maximum flexion, a level of force he may or may not have trained at that flexion angle. Recently, some top sport scientists like Brad Shoenfeld, PHD and others (including influencers like Ben Patrick 'knees over toes guy') have been proving this hypothesis out with scientific studies, but since a whole generation of trainers have dominated sports training for a generation, it will likely take time to shift. When you hear coaches talk about building strength (and power) though a full range of motion being emphasized, or 'mobility' work, thats when you know you have a trainer who is taking the more modern (actually ancient if you ask Charles) approach to stressing and training the joints as completely across the range of motion as possible. This loading across the full joint range makes them less vulnerable when they are put in high strain situations way beyond the range of motion you see typically trained by trainers that came out of partial range of motion school from 1980-2010 [/QUOTE]

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