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Ahhhh! I'll hit a few sets tonight even though its back day lol!


hmm...I wonder if I could hit them every other day...

In my own experience, the first time you do them will leave you sore, but you adapt very quick.  From the 2nd session, I was able to do them every other day and really speed up healing, then when my knee started feeling better, transition into heavy rep ranges for pre-hab

LOLLLLL

Who saw this coming?  I thought Scooby would have run out of new bullshit schemes to switch to, but he managed to video chat with Kadour Ziani and might possibly take his advice? 

Scooby, you're getting older man.  You don't have time to keep screwing around if you want to dunk.  You know, it's okay to make a mistake.  It's even okay to make it twice.

But, it's NOT okay to make the same mistake LITERALLY 10+ TIMES WHILE HAVING A BUNCH OF KNOWLEDGEABLE SUPPORTIVE PEOPLE ON HERE GIVE YOU THE BEST ADVICE YOU CAN GET... YES, BETTER ADVICE THAN EVEN KADOUR ZIANI.... I'm SURPRISED THE GUY DIDN'T ALSO TELL YOU TO STRETCH FOR 4 HOURS A DAY

Something that Lance has suggested to speed up healing the knee is high rep tonic work.  It has proven to work well in my experience as well.  Doing 2-3 x 20-30 reps of leg curls without locking the knees out to keep constant tension.  Doing it this way gets significant lactic acid buildup that aids in getting blood flow to promote healing.  Try it out.  Increase weight as you are capable and after a few sessions, along with not doing anything to aggravate the knee more should have you feeling better.

For a longer term solution, it would probably come down to something like getting more hip dominant possibly?  If not, simply just doing some more hamstring work/ knee flexion work to protect your knees from all your 45+" quad dominant DLRVJ's and heavy squats

I know you have no interest in running jumps and don't practice them, but have you tried them here and there just for fun to see how high you get?

DLRVJ and SLRVJ? 

It'll be interesting to see how high a heavy, but very relatively strong guy who trains squats + SVJ for the most part does in a SLRVJ.  Or to see if the SLRVJ actually regresses from the added weight + not practicing it, despite the significant strength gains

If Zach Lavine got a 400+ squat, he would be 50+/ TFB level, possibly Wiggins will hit 50 too.  They have perfect jumping bodies with still lots of room for improvement from strength..

Crazy to think about

Yeah I agree about the BW stuff.  I actually jumped my highest when I'm cutting (under 100g of carbs a day).  The loss of water weight has me weighing 5lbs less than normal and I always PR in these situations even though I'm on a caloric deficit diet and stuff..

I use bands on my slightly below parallel squats, and am just now starting to implement half squats.  I was considering using bands on them too but not sure if necessary.  You think the bands are useful for partials from your experience?

There is a happy medium here..

Obviously skill work is of most importance, however if you are the best of the best and supposedly super competitive, getting stronger/more athletic should also be a priority.  It doesn't have to be super emphasized, but I think we can ALL agree that they can definitely do much more productive stuff in the weight room than what we have seen from them time and time again. 

The following are purely my opinion and I don't know much because obviously I can only judge from the limited clips the public get to see

NBA players training is embarrassing.  I have yet to see one player do some real training.  Have you seen the recent Zach Lavine training video?  Didn't see one heavy weight training exercise, just lots of reactive work.  Hmmm..  Zach is 6'6" 185lbs, 46" SLRVJ...  Yeah he really needs reactive work...  Same with Wiggins in this video.

Both are VERY skinny and VERY athletic.  They would not only benefit athletically, but from all physical aspects if they are fuckin put under the barbell and improved their squat by 100lbs and gained some mass.  This is very do-able in the offseason for these guys since they never really did any real weight training in the past. 

Also, that hip thrust looks like the same weight as his bench which I doubt is 400lbs.

I have heard that the trainers either don't know shit, OR not allowed to/ or scared to do some real training incase they injure them and this will be too much of a risk to do so on a million dollar athlete. 

It makes sense, but any real S&C coach will still be able to train them safely.  Doing some 3x8 Squats is not dangerous at all if the coach knows what he's doing.  No need to be doing shit like 1 RM squats or anything.  Football and track and field athletes do real training all the time and they can't risk getting hurt neither.

Whatever the reason for NBA athletes training like pussies, where they never make any real noticeable changes, it's ridiculous the way they treat the athletes by doing a bunch of unnecessary useless exercises where they don't even progressively overload and doing "fun" exercises so that the NBA player (who doesn't know any better) thinks he is getting some good training but honestly is not making ANY gains.

Basketball players for the most part are very reactive, great movement efficiency from hours of playing every day since they were kids, and hardly any explosive strength deficits.  Most just need improved strength and who's to say getting bigger/stronger won't help athletes such as Zach and Wiggins who are skinny even compared to their NBA counterparts.  I'm not saying put them on GOMAD and gain 50lbs, but adding 10lbs of mass on these guys glutes/quads/hams by progressively overloading them with just squats and RDL's or something will do FARRRRR more for them than all the pussy crap they're doing. 

THe music REALLLLY didn't fit with the video too.  They shoulda used some R&B cause that's the intensity of his training