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Quote from: adarqui on September 16, 2010, 04:07:21 am

what yall think? I mean I think it looks like a pretty legit before & after video

http://www.canhedunk.com/Global/Episodes/Default.aspx

good stuff imo.. 10 weeks, a few inch gains on pretty much everyone, i think one guy looked to have gained around 4 or so i forget.. anyway, no INSANE gains, which is truthful.

next step, "canheBTL.com", take those kids to BTL level, now i'd love to see that.. looool.

peace

They got some okay gains although I have to say that I did not find the results impressive. I mean, if you can pick 7 determined players, most 6' and taller (the only two smaller ones, not surprisingly, were not be able to dunk at the end of week 10) , already jumping pretty well for their untrained state, it is not hard to get their strength up considerably in 10 weeks, which will immediately show in their vertical jumps. I found it funny that they said that basketball players are not olympic weightlifters and have to train differently. If you take complete untrained novices and put them in an olympic weightlifting program that actually produces strength gains, a higher vertical jump is exactly what will occur.

So, this was a cool project and the improvements were solid. But I am not surprised or anything about what was done and what has been achieved through it.

i dont think the programming was very good. they only 2 max effort attempts per week? wtf is that.   also, i didnt see any plyos besides box jumps :/ and didnt see any form of squatting.   nontheless, most got pretty good gains. especially this one kid i saw.

they were only playing aau basketball which is at most 2x a week. not going to impact training too much, esp for beginners.  id still do more testing.

Ben made phenomenal progress over the course of 10 weeks, especially given the fact he was incredibly active with both his high school and AAU basketball teams. It is really hard to make gains in your vertical jump when you have a two hour practice, or multiple games, every day of the week!

I am with you Adarqui, I thought it was a great project from a respected coach. I am hoping to interview Alan Stein about it. The only issue I had was that Alan, who is oviously a damn good trainer and knows his stuff, and who has, like me, got his knickers in a knot from time to time about vertical jump scam artists, and who interestingly has posted in various blogs about the need to customize your training, is now ironically selling the programs used in the can he dunk project.