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My plyometric routine consists of sprints/ single leg bounds/ depth jumps/ pogos

Lately, I have been doing them at a high frequency.  Weird thing is, the following days, my back is super sore, and my obliques as well.  I did feel my obliques working hard during my sprints though, and my lats a little bit from the arm swinging during the sprints.  How the hell is my back so much more sore than when I do a weight lifting for volume day on my back?

Could this possibly mean, I have weak obliques or something?  Would strengthening them help my sprints somehow?  Or nothing to worry about?

Also, my INNER shins start hurting a lot.  It's like they absorb a lot of the impact on each landing.  I don't think doing dorsiflex exercises would help, because they work the outside of the shins.  It's the inner side and they hurt...

Anyone ever experience any of these things and know what's up?

So as a basketball player, I feel like my lack of handles is holding me back the most.  I mean, in a typical pick-up game at my universities rec center, I'm usually the 1st or 2nd best ball handler in the 5on5 game, but that's against average guys.  I want elite handles.  I have VERY good 1st step quickness which I blow by people with all the time, but I feel like it can go up another level if I had more handles.  I have a pretty good jump shot, good at finishing around the basket, I just want some yo-yo handles.  Now you tell me to stay consistent and work hard training for vert?  Easy, I'll do it as I currently am doing.  Want me to work on my jumpshot?  Easy, I can easily go to the gym and put up hundreds of shots a day.  Want me to work on my handles?  Not so easy.  I end up quitting after like 10-20 minutes and just shoot instead.  I have no structure unlike the other 2 things to train for.  I don't know what drills specifically to do that'll carryover the best for me.  

I was going to buy Effective-Ball Handling, (I know, Moroko = bad) and I know I'm basically just paying for a schedule, but I don't care.  I need a structured workout laid out for me when it comes to this.  BUT, it seems like he's not selling it anymore???

Do you guys know if Taylor Allan's (I know..) Ball Handling Mastery program is any good?

Are there any other ball handling products out there?  

So I am a HUGE NBA fan, and I always seem to notice they're training habits as well.  For one, they train way different than most of us do here on adarq.org.  Obviously this is the case because their training is more injury-prevention/endure a grinding season/have a longer career-oriented.

But I see other things too.  Like this summer, the skinny as hell Brandon Jennings says he will do boxing and martial arts to get stronger.  Now If I was a new guy to come here on adarq.org and I said, I am a quick and athletic basketball player and I need to get stronger as it is holding me back, I don't think anyone here would advise me to do boxing or martial arts, and I wouldn't advise anyone with that either.  Sure it'll help, but wouldn't a dedicated weight training routine be the best way?

I also never see NBA players training for vert/athleticism, when it can help so much for some players.  And when I do see some doing lower body lifting, they leg press over squatting.  

There are more examples but I cannot think right now.  I know these NBA players are athletically gifted, and it is not their job to know these things even though they THINK they know (example, Air Up There thinks jumping high is all abs, and no legs), but shouldn't these professional trainers the NBA organizations hire know what the fuck to do?  Or are they no different from the average personal trainer at 24 hour fitness who don't know jack shit neither?


P.S.  I know AUT is not an NBA player, but you get the idea.

So, when I do conventional style dead lifts, I try hard to keep my back straight, use my lower body/hips, and keep my shoulders pulled back/chest out.  How come recently, when I dead lift, like the middle of my back, like where my spine is, in between my shoulder blades, it gets uncomfortable and kinda hurts.  The pain is not that much, it just feels weird.  This is weird, because before I used to never feel anything on my upper back, only my lower back when I would perform with improper technique.  Anyone else experience this?

Hi Lance, so I'm a single leg jumper, and right now I'm am ~30" SVJ and ~38" RVJ.  I am parallel squatting 220lbs for 5 reps at 153lb BW.  Strength is obviously my biggest weakness right now, and I have been primarily focusing on getting my squat to 2xBW lately. 

But when I think more about it.  Since a SLRVJ is more p-chain dominant, wouldn't a conventional dead lift be the best primary strength builder for a single leg jumper like me?  Right now I dead lift around 235lbs for 5 reps, (I have been squatting much more consistently and I have short arms, making dead lifts a lil harder).  I would say I am good enough at using my lower body for dead lifts considering that my hamstrings are the main muscles getting murdered, and I lift the weight by snapping my hips forward.  However, what's weird lately is my glutes don't burn at all during dead lifts (just like my squats as you have read from my other post), and for some reason, although my back is pretty straight, my UPPER back tends to get a weird uncomfortable feeling after heavy dead lifts?

Well lately, I have been keeping squats as my primary strength builder, with the trap bar dead lift as supplementary exercise.  I am abroad right now, and my gym is tiny, and I would like to stick with what I am doing, which is 2 big lower body lifts.  If you were currently in my situation, which 2 of the following 3 would you do, and which would you concentrate on as your primary lift?  Squat / Dead Lift/ Trap Bar Dead Lift.

Thanks.

So what I don't understand is, when I first started squatting, I did quarter/half type squats.  I just went down until I felt my glutes burning up.  During these squats, I would always be sore in my glutes the next day, no quad soreness.

I switched the parallel squats, and now I feel the burn on each rep on my quads like crazy, but no glutes firing.  The next day only slight quad soreness.

Today, I continued my parallel squatting, but for some reason, I felt the burn on my quads AND MY HAMSTRINGS for the first time.

What's going on here?


Also, how come my glutes are NEVER sore now, even if I do dead lifts primarily focusing on using my lower body?  I end up sore as hell in my hamstrings the next day when I dead lift but no glutes at all?

I noticed that my jumps would peak/PR after 2~3 weeks of having frequent jump sessions and plyo training.  My vertical would linearly go up as I practicing jumping and doing plyo's.  After those 2~3 weeks, I would stop and not really jump for like a week or more.  My jumps drop again back to where it was. 

My question is, is this ALWAYS going to be the case, or is it a situation where if I at the least keep practicing max effort jumps longer than 2-3 weeks, the gains will stay longer?  Is it that 2-3 weeks of initially jumping higher isn't a long enough time for my body to adapt and grasp this new ability?