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Oof. Kingfish is a monster. I am but a peasant in comparison!

Slow week of training due to cramming all my hours into a few days at work to get a small 3 day getaway in. No real "progression" just continuing to try and get stronger/more stable in all ROMs/positionsand maintain some springiness. So, here's a vid from after Tuesdays sesh. I find depth jumps are usually a good "bounce check" for me since I haven't had time to get a a real dunk/jump season in FOREVERRRRRR (yes I'm having withdrawals).

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHjlpJAg1t0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHjlpJAg1t0</a>

Notes: Boxes are 27" and 39". BW 193.

This just in: haven't trained since ^ day. Fuckin cluster migraines are back and my prescription shit isn't even touching them this time. Back to the doc Tuesday. Fuck.

Thanks LBSS, they're going to start me on a different med. The last one (rizatriptan) well, it definitely took away the migraine but holy F the side affects. I was useless the rest of the day. No bueno.

On another note this is the longest "episode" I've had. Going on 4 weeks daily. Normally they last about two weeks. I have cluster migraines behind my right eye fwiw. They differ from a normal migraine in that these are sharp, stabbing bursts of pain that come and go as fast as they appear. Usually if i can catch it IMMEDIATELY I can knock it back to a dull pain in my ass lol but lately they're impressively strong so we tried a prescription migraine med and it incapacitates me for hours lol dizzy, barely awake, feels like I ran a marathon, nausea, etc etc. Bleh. Just picked up the new prescription so... We shall see.

So I did what any same person would do after theyve taken double the recommended dosage of Excedrin migraine and Ibuprofen yesterday... I lifted 🙄😁🤷‍♂️ Probably helped because it lessened after I threw up post sled drives. I did gain some weight the past week so BW was 195.5lbs but I felt decently springy all things considered. Managed to try some SL running box jumps to try and get my form better. Took a clip of a few for reference later and filmed a 2 step approach on a 51" box DL. I REALLY should have filmed the first two one step attempts. The RL plant was decent but I avoided busting my face by about a millimeter on the LR plant 😂. I'll post the vids I did take in a few.


Annnnd that's basically my last week or so in review. Yay.

crazy box jumps as usual. sl one looking smooth.

with single vs double, the simple process of "thinking" about the jump might cause too much interference with the speed of a single leg jump. for a double, you're on the ground longer, so it's probably not as much of a problem. but for single, those conscious mental signals slow it down a bit. in a game, you're mind is on something else (or blank and just reacting) and you just perform the movement relaxed & free.

so maybe don't worry about it as much in training. because in games/amp'd up sessions, you probably will be able to let loose more and get that extra performance bump. as long as you're getting those movements in, it'll get you ready for the epic jumps.

Has anyone here tried to transition from a power type to a speed type SL jump?

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towards the end of my dunk lyfe i did. i rushed into it though. after a few months of L-SLRVJ'n, my thigh got wrecked and I couldn't jump. I was getting up pretty good too.

but it happened out of nowhere.

one day i just wasn't landing any DLRVJ dunks, so I said let me try an L-SLRVJ and i got way up. was crazy. then i started trying to shift completely into a single leg jumper, which felt much more normal for me.

these jumps happened when my left leg (jump leg) was really wrecked. sux. had tons of potential with it and was enjoying it more than dlrvj (because of the speed component).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_nXbwu89fA

pc!

BW was 192 today. Looked way leaner. Celebrated with ice cream after dinner 😅

Actually got a day off so I was able to train early vs super late and that was nice. Hamstrings were incredibly right from Saturdays lifting. Almost painful but not. Decent lift anyway. Managed to run by the court afterwards for literally 30 mins lol

Walked in post weights gym and changed shoes. Did some light shooting and decided I'd film some jumps to see where I am after no on court jumping in a damn minute. Phone didn't record. Blah. So I did the same handful of jumps again.

Conclusion: my timing sucks dick. And I've lost speed into the plant and some form (although these could be from the really tight hams). Felt as if I was shortening up my penultimate and plant steps significantly versus before. I'll have to check some old footage to be sure. I didn't get any SL footage the second go around but I'm DEFINITELY more explosive off one even with tight hams and no "motivation"

Gonna look at vid now and probably cut it down some. Will post later.

Sigh. Had to take a week off due to some crazy work scheduling/these stupid headaches/family duties. That said....my L knee pain came back somewhat. Dropped weights and spent a few days doing rehab circuits and it seems better now. So tonight it's back to the weights. I did check my FS and conventional deadlift on Saturday after a short warmup. 295 FS and 405 dead moved easily with no sleeves/wraps/belt. Sound sgood but my weight is still a fat ass 195lbs. Time to add some sprinting cardio to the end of workouts I REALLY wanna be back around 185.

Goal: lose 10lbs by Thanksgiving. Nice slow cut to maintain strength I hope.

Keep grinding yall

My training consistency is shit currently. SMH. Work is killing me lol! That said.... Some weird stuff today. Maybe I'm just fully recovered but I was quite explosive in warmups. Also, more flexible???? Idk how that happened considering I don't stretch often outside the gym/warmups/cool down. Also BW was 191.2lbs so that's headed in the right direction! Just gotta watch the portion sizes!