I can assure you your hip flexors will get far more explosive on a bike (dedicating to it) than doing squats. It hits those hard. Try wearing ankle weights on a stationary bike and revving it fast for 10-20mins & use 1kg/2.5kg plates with your arm swings (20sec repeats). No way are you gonna be the slowest guy on court.
Try it.
Explosive hip flexors/explosive arm action & you will be blazin' to your first 5-10m. Gotta keep dedicated though.
For an elite bball player that can already run, ball & dunk who puts 100lbs on his squat in the off-season won't be coming back the new Kobe, lol.
hah, no i saw it , thats why i said, im sure the reason hes doing it is to improve his hip flexor power because thats super important to him. Its not because in the offseason tons of nba guys get on the stationary bike since they are getting less court time.
what is your opinion on adding chains to the stationary bike? accommodating resistance for more explosion?
Sup, this is your boy adarq (King Terd of BoingTerd) and well, i finally got a glimpse of boingvert's secret exercises, and i must say, i am floored.. astonishingly effective at improving performance. If any of yall know of any more, through secret contacts, please link the vids.
Ok let's get started...
Secret society exercise #1. Advanced spiraling technique for arm swing
ok well this doesn't need explanation, it's already been leaked on here..
Secret society exercise #2. Riding a 6 foot unicycle
In the words of Alex Maroko, this exercise is awesome. I was told that it has to be a 6 foot unicycle, in order to trick the CNS into thinking you are 45+ inches off the ground, which helps to rewire your cns and give you a new sense of kinesthesia, making your current vert feel like easy work. You must also not wear a helmet, because this causes the fight or flight response to kick in and helps to enlarge the adrenals so that you can produce more adrenaline when dunking. Another interesting aspect of this exercise, is that if you pull back on the pedal stroke, it really hits the hip flexors hard blu, real hard. This will help you land BTL's alot easier with your new vert, as now you can explosive hip flex at elite levels and get the ball between your legs much easier.
Apparently you're supposed to ride for 5 minutes a day, non stop 5 minutes.. if you fail to achieve 5 minutes straight, rest for a minute, reset mentally, and get that 5 minutes.
Also, while pedaling, you want to be thinking about your event, so, think about jumping 50 inches, as it helps to associate the fight or flight response of unicycling on a 6 footer with no helmet to dunking a basketball.
T-dub, GC, Airdogg, Jonesy, and Werm can all do this WHILE facebooking, no excuses for you.
Secret society exercise #3: Increasing flexibility, the plexiglass bottle technique
Apparently this was passed down from Air Up There to TFB and then to BoingVert, and finally, onto yours truly.
Anyway, increasing flexibility to elite levels is so important. Bottom line, if you can't jam yourself into a 24" by 24" glass bottle, then you have major power leaks throughout the tendons and musculature. This helps give you elastic ligaments, tendons, bone, and muscle. This elasticity causes your body to become a bouncy spring, hence the name "boing" vert.. This exercise is extremely important, and should be performed once a day, for again, 5 minutes at a time. Basically, you contort yourself into the bottle, then you RELAX in the bottle for 5 minutes.... I cannot urge to you enough, YOU HAVE TO BE RELAXED WHILE IN THE BOTTLE.. If you are not relaxed, then your alpha gamma coactivation is too tight and will instead work against you, causing a shift from beta receptors in the series elastic component into more of a theta receptor in the parallel elastic component.
T-dub does this for 10 minutes, but, most people cannot work up to such feats.. So, set your sights on 5 minutes.
See the difference? Jonesy's core is so strong, that there is no power leakage through his legs, causing beta alanine receptors to fire optimally. What you need to do is, start off with a mini cooper, working yourself up to a hummer, and finally to a bulldozer.... If you can withstand a bulldozer running over your stomach, well folks, according to Guy from BoingVert, you have finally made it, and now you can boing.
ok well, that's it for now, try to keep this info on the hush hush... and remember...
This thread made me lol my head off, thanks guys. What it boils down to is some people dont want to hear that they just simply arent strong enough, they want to believe in magic and find some super secret extreme iso upside tuba playing tai chi meditation reverse grip fleshlight hold that will make them better. If you look around long enough there will be SOMEBODY out there agreeing with you, then when they get on the hamster wheel and dont improve, they give up and usually quit training.
squatting isnt even close to EVERYTHING there is to performance training, no one says that, it DESTROYS pedaling a bicycle, holding planks sideways, and jumping with medicine balls between the legs though. Its a great exercise to work a very large number of the muscles that need to be extremely strong and powerful for jumping and speed.
and lol at using kobe bryant as an example against squatting............
11 seconds in, I missed the bike riding clip pulling up with the hip flexors as a primary focus (lmfao) though Im sure he does lots of those to focus on the most important performance muscles, the hip flexors.
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btw lance, how did you miss the bicycle clip it's in there at 5.5-5.57 seconds.. quick frames, u need a quick eye.
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sickenin, what are some of the key differences between NFL athletes and NBA athletes, which explains their different levels of strength/power?
i'm curious as to what you think is responsible for nfl athletes having far better standing vert's than NBA (at comparable heights/bodyweight), same for RVJ, 40 yard dash, broad jump etc?
the squat is apart of every football weightroom in america, from high school to college to nfl.... the squat is hardly apart of basketball weight rooms... does this have anything to do with the differences in power between nba and nfl athletes? is it all genetics/limb leverages?
what is it?
why is the nba bench press test 185, not 225 like nfl? is this simply due to longer arms or what? most point guards in nba can barely rep out 185 for anything impressive, yet defensive back's in nfl can rep 225 out 20+ times.. why is this?
what i'm asking is, why are nfl athletes so much more impressive than nba athletes for the vast majority?
thanks in advance for your detailed response, peace.