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Sup everyone, my name is Martin (some friends call me guga). Ive been surfing the forum for over a month reading the journals and the funny theards (sexy pics, off topic and some of the hilarious crap that adarqui posts) but I was too lazy and too weak to register ( I wanted to increase my numbers a little bit first lol). Why I train, because my dream has always been being able to dunk hahaha.

So I guess that Im gonna add my stats and training background here and also on a journal.

Current stats.

Age: 26 (fuk)
Height: 5'11
BW: 150-152lbs
Squat (oct-2-2010): did 85kg x 6 reps (190lbs) (left 2, maybe 3 on the tank) so I guess my max is around 105kg (230lbs.. yeah it sucks badly).
Current VJ/CMJ: 24"
Current 2 leg running VJ: 26"

PRs
Squat around the same number maybe 5kg+
VJ: 26"
2 leg running VJ: 28" (crappy explosiveness even when at that time I was feeling smooth on my jumps)

Training background.

Ive been training (if you can call that training) for 5 years. Yes, only 1.5xbw crappy. Used to do only ATG Squats (I mean going downnnnn, not breaking parallel). At the beginning I was making quick gains, but at a certain poin, the lack of quality food (im skinny) didnt let me improve anymore, in short resume I was getting strong, then loosing weight (muscle mass ofc). so I got stuck.

At the beginning of 2010 I stopped lifting since I lost my motivation and I didnt lift for 4-5 months, then I bitch slapped me to stop being a pussy and started to lift again now taking more notice about my diet and adding supplements since a was lacking on proteins (using whey now). Still not as motivated as before but lifting. Now Im squatting parallel since I think it helps more with the force absorption, that is something that I always lacked when I was jumping (I just can jump at my max tacking 2-3 relaxed steps, not from a run).

Since there isnt a single decent gym at my city I bought my own stuff to train at home (I havent found a gym with a squat rack) and I only have pins so I cant squat till failure.

I rarely train my upper body, well I do pull ups and push ups two times a week, sometimes some tricep/bicep.

I guess is too much shit for an intro.

thanks man.

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have you ever done anything like MR tuck jumps/pogos/depth drops for improving your force absorption?

I used to do 2 strenght days and then 1 jump/depth drops day and my vert went up and it was according to my strenght level but the 2" diference between my cmj and running was still there and then I lost some strenght lol and my vert went down.

The funny thing is that 2 months later, after a night of alcohol (to clean my body and spirit) and only 4 hours of sleep, I went to the court and I was explosive as never before. I hitted my PRs and maybe 0.5-1" higher.