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train around it! if a specific exercise is giving you pain, stop doing that exercise! do something else! ankle hops are not the only barrier between you and dunking. just stop doing them. do max effort broad jumps or bounds, see if lower-intensity hops are okay and if they are do those, see if your feet will let you do short sprints.

i'd like to be able to do a barbell overhead press again sometime but at the moment my shoulder doesn't like any overhead pressing with any kind of external rotation. so i bench and do dumbbell overhead presses and pushups.

have been working out pretty much randomly since i got back from my trip 3+ weeks ago. i've had a few good jumping days in that time but i'm not doing anything structured and that worries me. also i don't feel like i'm overloading at all, which as we all know is necessary for actual progress. the holidays are coming up in a few weeks. i have it in mind to do as much of flying in four (EDIT: plus upper body shit that will continue to be de-emphasized) as i can between now and when i leave for christmas family time, use those ~4 days as the adaptation period, and do the final workout or two as basically priming days for testing just before new year's. time for a big push.

starting tonight. gonna do the intermediate version because i can't claim a 2x bw squat right now. but i'll keep adding weight pretty aggressively (10-20 lbs/workout) on squats until i can't anymore.

also, just an observation: my best jumping comes after a leg workout (jumps or depth jumps, squats, and RDLs) plus an extra day of rest (~72 hours instead of ~48). occasionally, those rest days include something like moderate-intensity tennis.

today just did more shooting around, layups a few ME DLRVJ and then a bunch of pull-aparts, push ups, and cable hip thrusts. about and hour and fifteen minutes total. back in the normal swing of things this week. it was a good holiday.

thanksgiving was great, lots of family time. bout to go watch the washington john walls take on the new orleans anthony davises. got caught up with gf's family today and didn't have time for a full workout but did make it to the gym for:

- shooting around, dribbling practice, and full-court layups x 40 minutes

shoulder was hurting and bounce was not great so didn't do more than a couple of ME DL jumps, none from four steps.

man take it easy. don't push for no reason, if you're hurt be hurt.

and maybe get back to dropping some weight? i know being heavy make everything harder on your back.

i like the bench plan. good luck with it.

how's your heel? general injury/health status? you said you recovered from your cold...have you trained at all while you were sick?