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But if i get the job in Virginia which i will hopefully, my plan is buying a somewhat decent house with a lot of land, and building a gym thats bigger than my house, probably a joe defranco type gym

Quote from: Ineedtodunk on April 24, 2011, 12:04:42 am

I'm asking advice on how to successfully get leaner/lighter, you provided no advice on that, so I don't get what advice I should be taking... and lance has not posted anything here idiot.

Why can't I compare myself to nba players? I'm not comparing skills... 

Either way I'm just using them as an example.  A lot of players, if they put on significant more weight from muscle mass, they are more at risk of injury, and will become less mobile/agile/athletic...

People do have optimal weights they would perform best at

Take care of OSD first. You can't even think about jumping high until you've fixed that.

Simply running a calorie deficit works ok if your body fat is reasonably high and you just want to get leaner and lighter and don't care too much about maintaining as much mass and maximum strength as possible. Strength work to maintain strength and increase protein retention and extra conditioning work to burn a few more calories and get in shape for bball along with running a ~500 calorie deficit a day and keeping your protein/carb/fat ratios alright will be much better for performance.

A huge drop in calorie intake, even if you drop your expenditure considerably, tends to not work well for a lot of athletes.

You still need to sort your knee before you should worry about that though.

Strength training makes you more resistant to injury, not less, and there's no reason to become less mobile,agile and athletic unless your training wrong. Really, getting stronger should make you more agile, faster and jump higher.

Forget about optimal weight while your still growing getting taller and filling out makes it a pointless worry. Optimal weight for adult athletes is mainly a function of focus on training between skill, strength and conditioning. For you optimal weight is what ever you gain while doing a little bit of strength work, eating properly and playing and conditioning for your sport.

If you're knee can't handle being 150lbs it won't be able to handle jumping a couple of inches higher at 145lbs. Get your knee sorted. Back off anything intense, keep moving with light shootarounds etc and ice and ibuprofen, what ever your PT/doc says and then strength, mobility and activation work.

Haha, can we be more antagonistic than this or what? Let me guess, you also like Carmelo, Rip Hamilton, Bruce Bowen, Raja Bell, Ron Artest, Dennis Rodman, Bill Laimbeer, Chauncey Billups, Anderson Varejao, Manu Ginobili?