oh yeah that was a good routine. didn't help me jump higher, though. might it be worth getting away from the track for a while, because it's been the site of some discouragement for you? like focus on weights and SVJ for a bit, go full kingfish?
t0ddday put RVJ last for me, as well, and after trying it that way a few times i just ignored the instruction and put it after warm up and skater hops or MB OH throws. it helps to have one or two exercises to get firing but then RVJ should be done un-fatigued.
As much as going full kingfish is tempting I'll try to do it as written initially. Despite the crap season, I really like running and training at the track and it would keep me in touch as least.
rvj is last half for convenience, half because athletes jump higher last. it all depends on your work capacity and muscle mass.
OK I'll give it a try. When's your site going up btw? Very keen to check it out.
We have a site in testing. You can check out our instagram:
Don't worry about when you do the jumps. LBSS does them earlier because he jumps higher that way. That's the only rule. Do the jumps when you jump highest. The reason I like them last and a lot of athletes jump best when very very warm and sweaty (see raptor and my posts) and a easy weight circuit and hip activation takes care of this AND I trained a lot of athletes to jump where the gym and bball court were separated - so we would do gym THEN court. It was a pain to do gym, court, gym. I prefer gym then court (with jumps) because I think squatting after bball conditioning is worse. If you don't have this need for convenience you need to get a lot of volume of very high jumps however you can...
So what program are you going to be copying exactly? And how bad are the achilles?
This one:
I'll update the weights when I get a feel for where I'm at over the next few weeks. I decided to lighten the second gym session a bit weights-wise because it'll be on the weekend and I may be able to do more jumps then. But I'll see how it goes. There's a spot where I can do SVJ/DSVJ reliably though I think. I also might be able to get shed access at the track to get a shotput and tape measure. That'd be sweet.
Schedule would be [
MON: rest //
TUE: Track#1 //
WED: Gym#1 //
THURS: Track#2 //
FRI: Yoga //
SAT/SUN: Gym#2]
One thing that could change things a little is that some of my aths mates want to play in a bball comp at my gym, which would be pretty fun. The standard is not anything near what I used to play at, just hacks messing around mostly. If they get in it'd be on Mondays, so in that case I'd maybe attenuate the track session the next day (just shot tosses/tempo, less jumps). Would be good to get some pre-game jumps/dunk attempts in. I couldn't care less how I play though lol, just in it for the hops!
The achilles bursitis is feeling OK atm. I'm really wondering if my shoes were giving me issues over the last 6 months. I got some Nike Zoom waffle racers (cross country flats) to train in around August/September to replace my trusty Nike Free 3.0's that had holes in them. I seemed to get this issue roughly around then. The other day I played some pickup ball in some Nike Free 5.0's that I have, and the next day was expecting to wake up in pain, but weirdly it was fine. Hm, something to note. But overall, better.
P.S. Site looks awesome btw! Pretty cool to be training NBA players.
