Hi, all!
I live in New Zealand (but am an asian
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), 16 year old, play basketball, 6' tall looking to dunk and eventually, get over 40 inch vertical!
Dunking is one of my goals that i seriously want to achieve.
I'm a newbie when it comes to weight training, i barely have done it for nearly a year or less, and when i look at all the posts and comments, i do understand some of them
but always get confused at some point by the languages that weightlifters speak.
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Anyway, right now, i can just touch the rim, i don't know how high i can jump though.
I have been training for my vj since about march 2012, but because i'm young, don't have enough money for gym AND there aren't that many gyms in here,
I had to use homemade weights, which are just milkbottles filled with water, bag full of books ...
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in total i had about 30kg which is about 66lbs ( here we use kg instead of lbs)
Yeah, i know that it wasn't good at all but i was worked on with those weights as a beginner.
But then i got stronger, and was able to touch the rim, and my vertical gain stopped from then although I worked for it for at least 6-9 months.
By then, i was so confused and frustrated, wondering what the problem was, and i guessed that it was because i had too light weight.
SO i tried out many programs to get knowledge, and eventually got vertical jump bible.
Now i made some more weights (which is just another bag full of weights and MORE MILK BOTTLES LOL) so i have about.. 40-42kg which is about 88-92lbs.
Now, with vjb and adarqui's MEBM ( i don't think i will try LTMP... because well i'm not that used to those high volume training, i think i will try using MEBM then when i'm stronger i will add LTMP as well. But please recommend me to use LTMP if i'm wrong.)
But recently, about 2 and a half months ago, i hurt my ankle (i think the ligament) and is still in process of healing... but i think it's nearly healed.
But i couldn't do anything for that much time, and had to waste it without doing anything.
Gladly i didnt lose that much vert, which i'm glad about.
Anyway, i'm here to achieve my goal to dunk, but more importantly, how i can achieve my goal with my 40kg homemade weights... Helps would be greatly appreciated
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Thank you!