hey guys,

I'm Henry and I live in Brighton, England.

I'm 23 and have lifted weights for about 7 years. The first 5 and a half of those years were spent doing bodybuilding which I kind of regret now although I liked it at the time.
I regret it because I now think of all the time I could have used to get more athletic is wasted tbh although some aspects of it were useful (I was stronger because of it).

The other year and a half I have used trying to be more athletic and powerful (trying to increase my vertical jump because I like to play basketball) I recently started doing vf2. Infact, the reason I found this forum is because I can't get on to the forum on vertfreak101 and I was searching for another way in on google and I got a link to the topic on here that was basically killing Adam Linkenauger saying that he's a scammer and stuff by advertising squatflex btw, I totally agree there. The squatflex looks totally crap and a waste of money.

I'm currently doing qualifications to become a personal trainer, only low level atm but I intend to progress. I'm interested in becoming a specialist in strength and conditioning so I may well have many questions to help with my own training which I hope will help when I come to train clients who may wish to increase vertical jump, decrease sprint times etc...

I look forward to future conversations 

hey hey, that's cool.

I train in an independent gym called cheetahs gym http://www.cheetahsgym.co.uk/  It's predominantly a bodybuilding gym and there are many guys that go there who do bodybuilding shows. Also one of the guys who used to work there did strongman competitions.. he was pretty big.
Apart from there not being any plyometric boxes or anything like that it's a great gym with more weights than I've seen in any other gym I've been to - although I've only ever been to commercial "leisure gyms"

I do play basketball when I can although I'm not very good at it so wouldn't really call myself a baller, I just like to go down to the park and play with a few of my mates and whoever's there at the time (what with it being the winter there aren't as many people there now as there is in the summer so I can't wait for it to start to get warm again). When it is warm I like to go and play 2 times a week or more if I can.

I'm 6 feet tall and can grab the rim with one hand although I have been at that level for a number of months now, that's why I decided to go for an actual jump program because I'm sure with proper training I can do better

welcome man! what are your lifting stats like (and bodyweight, height 6'0)?




haha funny, glad those call-em-out threads are popping up in searches





it definitely will.. there are many new-age coaches who 'fail to improve their own performance to any significant degree', you can see this in the usage of ineffective training methods they utilize with their athletes.. so improving your own performance will definitely transfer very well to improving your athletes performance.




same! peace man

You must have really short arms.  If you're 6'1" and can only reach 7'4" (87")? 

Anyways, what's up with the kilos?  I thought yall invented the English units, where's the lbs??

ya that reach seems a little low but who knows, double arm or single arm reach?

regardless, got to get that relative strength up! 1.6xBW squat, needs improvement.

look forward to seeing your progress man.

Double-arm reach only a quarter inch below single-arm reach?



Makes no sense at all. Unpossible. I don't believe. Pics or it didn't happen.