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no it's not based on jump height, although springy people tend to jump higher. kingfish jumps 40" but looks slow as fuck, he's just very powerful. same for chris hickson when he was around. dreyth, but less so. some people are naturally springy and others aren't, a lot is based on genetic things like body structure, tendon length, and so on. people like you and me have a lower ceiling than people like, uh, actually most of the gifted two-leg jumpers on here are gone (taylorhorton, rip, rutgersdunker). chris m and matt a come to mind, i guess. but none of those guys has the springs that taylorhorton had, or certainly that rutgersdunker has. that dude is an animal.

but we can definitely improve movement efficiency, grace, speed, and power. no doubt about it. adarq went from touching rim to dunking off one leg, which is truly awesome and frankly a big part of why i'm still going at this.

will just make it that much more satisfying when we finally do throw down. 

this morning:

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: left heel
MENTAL STATE: tired, lethargic, unfocused

- warm up

- a few jumps

this was awful. i slept badly the last two nights but forced myself to get up and go jump this morning because i won't be able to work out tonight or tomorrow. could not even get one full knuckle over off one step, so i bagged it. did some layups but even those were rough, and i couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with the fucking ball while i was shooting around. moved around, did some dribbling practice, focusing on my right hand, which i'm worse dribbling with even though i'm right-handed. poor. need to get good sleep the next two nights.

10 minute mile at 270 pounds isn't all THAT bad. i mean it's pretty bad but if you lost some weight you'd be faster (obviously).

WEIGHT: 173
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: good

- warm up

- SVJ x 6

- squat 295 x 1,1,1,1,1,1

- superset x 3
-- DB RDL 60s x 10
-- DB OHP 40s x 10; 35s x 10,10
-- pull down 100 x 10; 110 x 10; 120 x 10

- decline sit up 30 x 10

- stretch

funny, what i perceive as parallel or slightly below parallel turns out to be well below parallel on video.

Looking good^^^

You're still SO slow in your plants and moves and everything... you should start doing some more plyos and sprints and stuff like that when you think you've had enough with strength training.

Just cycle these things out.

agree.

lol yeah it didn't happen. i woke up at 5:45 and was like, nope. didn't get to bed early enough last night. i will do some when i go later this morning but it probably won't be on the court.

just picked up 16 lbs of WPC from truenutrition.com and got half off shipping and 500g of creatine for free. $131 shipped for several months worth of supplementary protein and kind of a lot of creatine. fitna give creatine a try, why not?