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if its low bar, it can be stressful on shoulders/wrists.. or it could be that you just dont back squat often..i think you'll be fine, just inhale some big breathes, hold it, while the bar is on the 'shelf' and you should be fine.. if you're doing that you should adapt to it, if thats all it is.

peace

Quote from: adarqui on October 23, 2009, 06:23:33 pm

Quote from: ESav15 on October 23, 2009, 06:20:50 pm

You mean you cannot dunk at all?!?
man that's hard to believe...I bet you'll fly a couple of weeks from now

well nope i can't.. ive jumped like 3 times in two months..

i have pretty bad genetics for power.. without all that frequency/heavy lifting my body turns back into mush.

damn. I know you always say you got bad genetics,I really didn't realize HOW bad you mean.
that does actually make me respect you more than I did for you athletic achievements.
40 inches with this kind of "decompensation" rate is out of this world.

ya im claiming 39 btw ;d, even if i did hit 40, i didnt hit it enough to claim it.. so its not official.. i know 39 fell for a fact though.

ya man, i have horrible genetics for power etc.. almost every time i've deloaded, my vert would drop.. the only time it didn't is when i just transitioned to pure shock-blocks, which isnt a deload..

without weights/plyos I'd probably be 24" SVJ and 30" SVJ max. heh!

in college I was like < 24" svj and 28" rvj, with just bball training/trying to jump max.

i kept up pure intensity for 2 years to get to ~39" rvj.. it takes its toll on you mentally, when you have such shitty genetics, that if you fucking take a week off it drops hardcore, or, when you're PR'n, you partially tear tendons/strain muscles/develop tendonitis.. etc.. shit gets in your head sometimes.. i kept it out for 2 years but i think after i hit the 2 year mark i was just like...... mehhhhhhhhhhhh...

after I tore my hamstring tendon up a bit, every time i was PR'n my jumps, it would resurface.. that really got to me.. its like i just wanted to have fun and dunk/keep progressing, but then i'd have to work around an injury by doing other crap for a month and no jumping.. probably the worst injury I've had (worse than broken bones/torn mcl etc).. cause it just comes back when im making progress, and feels like razorblades in my knee.

so ya that shit got to me a bit, instead of having fun I was just battling too much crap.

I'll probably be jumping a bit more now.. I miss throwing down some self lob dunks.. plus I can make cooler vids when dunking ;d

I want to make gains w/o weights though, I'm tired of weights... those depth drops from 50" got me using full force in my arms to get out of the chair/bed, i can barely walk, so much soreness.. heheh


peace man

Deadlif
BSS

and deadlift again. 

haha.. Esav is proof that you don't need much exercise variety when it comes to heavy lifting.. two lifts, thats it, good progress..

Hi everyone
I'm Enzo.
I was able to improve my (humble) dunking ability thanks to Andrew's valuable suggestions.
The man knows what he talks about,but maybe you all have already realized that.

Join the Darq side;)

hey man!

how's everything going? you sort out that team/training thing?

thanks for the kind comments im glad you made progress off some of my suggestions.

i am beyond sore from those 50" depth drops.. unbelievable.

just re-watched this.. i love this vid.

I put these up for bowen, the first two are good preparatory exercises for the VJ TO SS drop.. perfecting those prep exercises will improve the landings on VJ TO SS much quicker.

quick lunge with reset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7XpORX90k&fmt=22

quick lunges rebounding with pause: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv5SufqW6JI&fmt=22

quick lunges rebounding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkXW7ltZAss&fmt=22

vertical jump to split squat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On8CtyOXvPg&fmt=22

i'll post the variations later, they are actually pretty intense.

peace

Dude the color scheme for the new domain name is wack, black on dark gray makes it hard to see stuff, and there's so much white on the page anyway because of the text entry box. Maybe it's just my screen or something. Anyway, I've never tried pause rep benching cause I only started benching last week. Seems like a good method; takes the stretch reflex out of the rep which is supposed to be good. I'll try it in warm-ups on Friday.

ya im playing around with it.. I'm probably going to just download a nice theme instead of doing it by hand.. im getting ready to add a bunch of content to the site.

ya well not only does it take the stretch reflex out, it also builds strength much faster IMO, due to longer time under tension in that weak joint angle.. very rapid eccentric contractions..

peace