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Quote from: maxent on March 09, 2016, 03:28:28 am

why cant i dunk during games? my fitness wasnt bad but i just run out of juice and i cant do ME type movements like dunks in that state.

A questions for the ages. Maybe it is basketball conditioning that allows for these ME movements during a game situation. It's one that's largely escaped me. May be a slight mental hurdle as well. I know I jump far higher when not thinking about dunking than when thinking about dunking.

Btw, where is your tournament?

Lol .. must be one of the most embarrassing moments when you get rimchecked while wide open for a dunk you'd never miss if not for being fatigued! I think we're on the right track that its a conditioning thing .. more specifically energy system related .. we'd never normally be in that state when dunking in training (at least i wouldn't)? or if you were in that state you wouldn't bother trying to dunk cause you know it would be a losing proposition and yet in a game you can't pick and choose what opportunities you will get to dunk, so when you get one and you're not able to take advantage it feels pretty devastating.  After the game was over and i sat down for some minutes i went to the rim and did some dunks which told me it was a fatigue thing but hten i also missed a dunk straight after. It was pretty humiliating. It's in Brisbane.

Dunked @ 97.65kg / 215.28lb with the weigh vest maxed out at +20kg/44lb. Then proceeded to miss two bodyweight dunks in a game cause my conditioning doesn't allow dunking when fatigued.

BW: 75.2kg / 165.79lb

Decent post refeed spike ^ .. ! And ah yes, familiar post-squats soreness .. how i missed ya. Going to do some decent squat volume and then taper off closer to the comp for gainz.

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I reviewed video of the weighted dunking from last night and im not sure if i wanna give up on the heavier version .. it looks a lot better than it felt. May find a compromise, one workout with +10-15% volume, 1 workout with less volume of ~+25% and of course the bodyweight dunks after each? That should cover all the bases. It's purely ego which compels me to chase a 100kg dunk if i'm honest, im not convinced it will actually help me become a better athlete tbh.

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Next squat workout might be work up to a heavy single PR and then do 4x3x125kg. That should be challenging but progressive. Of course i may not be recovered enough for that by tmr so may do a light workout instead. Will play it by feel.

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In general i do want to taper off volume .. esp on upper body exercises .. but i do also wanna look like i lift, which are competing goals. have to find some decent middle ground there.

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go.
get.
it.

 

Wow.... standing dunk.  I dont understand it.  I can do all the other dunks.  I caught oops w 40lbs vest and belt added (be 250)... took it off...  i am still a good 6 inches from standing dunk.  I do not understand how you make that look easy..  i swear its impossible!

Thanks both! I think weighted dunking is a game changer for me. I've cut to low bodyweight before but I lose somethign in doing so, probably the strength component to dunking going from heavier -> lighter means each dunk is less challenging to the body in terms of strength and power. Dunks got quicker and submax-ier but that was it -- just easier, not higher -- wasn't jumping out of the gym by any means.

Now with with weighted dunking in addition to cutting i'm getting lighter but not just maintaining my strength with the weighted vest but actually increasing it since i'm going into each dunking workout weighing more, it may lead to even more pronounced athletic improvement. It remains to be seen how this plays out when i've reached my goal weight (both in morning bodyweight AND weighted bodyweight) by end of cycle. Lets watch and see!!

TBH weighted dunking AND hip thrusts AND RDLs are the most exciting thing in my training in a long time. These things are actually improving WHILE cutting which is something ive never been able to do with squats to any meaningful way. Squats go down on a cut but these other things for me are somehow improving, promise some tantalising athletic gains to come. In theory squats should be enough but in practice unless i'm consistently squatting heavy, hard to do while cutting, my (PC & dunking) strength goes down. Now i'm not limited by my squat mid-cut, i can actually work on strength (PC & dunking) outside squats which is a game changer indeed. I can't wait to see how I perform in the tournament. Hopeful.

my envy, it knows no bounds. two-handed tomahawk off a couple of steps.

Thanks bud! It's tantalising to think i could be a bit more athletic just by wearing better shoes, not being dead from fasted walking/running etc, not to mention being on a chronic caloric deficit and a bit lighter and use a grippier slightly smaller ball. And more importantly a heck lot stronger via RDL+HTs+2xBW-BS!! I can't wait for Day 21 .. shud be in lifetime PR territory for athleticism!

 

1. Noticed a few things today from a bball workout. A) On layups im releasing the ball very low .. as in close to the bottom of the backboard. Maybe it's because i subconsciously internalised that dumb rule about aiming for the top of the square and for me that means i'm setting a target that's too low? It's prob a rule for children anyway who are a lot smaller not for grown men who can are both tall and can jump relatively high? I wanna work on that next time and video tape to see if it looks better.

2. Have been doing too many junk miles in lieu of fat loss. This was understandable but now it's starting to eat into both recovery and ability for squatting. This is unacceptable .. I won't abide bad squat workouts again, so from here on, no more fasted treadmill walking or running. IT was just a stupid thing anyway .. not appropriate for someone as fat as me. It's more useful for someone who wants to burn off stubborn fat etc -- NOT MY situation so that's jettisoned as of today.

3. Fasting in general is a performance killer. It's time to prioritise performance so im going to shorten my fasting intervals from 24-16hrs to ... i dont know, whatever feels right. I'll experiment. Even consider eating breakfast .. it will probably make me stronger and more athletic.

4. However there is a caveat to all of this .. i should get sub 75kg/165lb first before en-acting these changes. Just because I don't like to leave things unfinished and i'm very close now anyway, what's 0.25kg .. a 2000kcal deficit? I can do that in a coupla days and get it over and done with.

5. Sort out the problem with rest days where i have to do a lot of walking to make a decent deficit otherwise i have to eat bare morsels which sucks. Eating 250g of chicken breast gets old real quick .. but if you stick it in 2 bagels it suddenly transforms into a delicious and decent meal -- only too many calories lol. Maybe if i cut down on fasting i'll be able to do the walking without fatigueing my squat muscles? Need to experiment there.