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Too_Old:
Hi all,
I'm Russell. I found this forum a week ago or so from searching articles/videos on how to increase vertical leap. I am posting a public video to show I'm not lying about things and future video's will document my progress. Due to my weight, I tried a vertical leap in my apartment, and upon landing, it hurt. I'm guessing my vertical leap is about 12 inches now. When I played playground basketball in the 1980's and early 90's my vertical was somewhere around 31 to 33 inches. I was just about 1/2 inch shy of being able to dunk on a 10 foot rim. I could dunk on a 9' 11" rim though.

Here's the link to my video's of my start to improve my health, and my invention of a hand spread stretcher.

https://youtu.be/oHjt3MDpSn0

https://youtu.be/8JtQiu4PHqE

LBSS:
welcome. what are your goals, specifically? lose inches off the waistline? jump higher? get back into pickup ball or get better at it?

Too_Old:
Hi LBSS

I'm wanting to get back into shape to play some basketball. Also, I had a former neighbor who was older than me, but she was so obese she could hardly walk and had to use one of those walkers to hold on to, to help her walk and not fall down. Her age was probably late 60's. I need to lose weight so as not to end up like her.

But there is more. I scoured the internet for articles on increasing vertical leap. I'm not disputing that those methods don't work, but many of those exercises that involve jumping like weighted squat jumps, box jumps etc.. These exercises are hard on the knees. I have developed a theory about how one simple exercise that does not  involve your feet leaving the floor, (like jumping hard 200 times a day). I searched the internet to see if anyone else has published an exercise like I just started doing, but I could not find anything like it. I will not reveal what the simple exercise is, because the exercise only takes about 15 minutes to do, and you do it 3 times a week. If my theory works and I can increase my vertical to be able to dunk on a 10 foot rim at 60 years of age, within one year of starting this exercise, would you consider that something extremely valuable?

I recently found an article from 1987 describing Karl Malone's strength training program. https://www.si.com/vault/1987/11/09/116554/lets-get-physical-finesse-is-taking-a-backseat-as-teams-vie-with-each-other-to-get-the-big-bangers-who-can-tough-it-out-under-the-basket    The article stated he lifted weights for 4 hours a day. I am not dissing him as a respected Hall of Fame player. But was his success on the basketball court due to weight lifting 4 hours a day? I don't think so. He could have lifted weights one hour a day and still be a Hall of Fame player. Did his lifting program get him a 45 inch vertical leap? No.

I am looking to disprove the notion that extreme exercise efforts is required to develop a high vertical leap. I'm going to video record everything I do and date stamp when it was recorded. Most of the video's will remain private. I will make public, video's of my weight loss at first. And later when I lose enough weight to jump higher, (as I am right now too heavy to do jumping) I will post those video's public.

If it doesn't work and I'm wrong, then I guess I'll fade away and disappear in time.

Sorry for the long post. Thank you for asking that question.

Let me add that my weight loss efforts are paying off. I've lost some 28 lbs since mid August.

Too_Old:
My current hand spread. Right hand, 9.25 inches. Left hand 9.0 inches. I'll try my hand spreader everyday for a few months and see what happens. Unable to post photo as file size limit is exceeded.

LBSS:
fascinating. seems unlikely that you have unlocked a secret to jump training that went undiscovered or undeveloped by generations of professionals, and i'd say that it's impossible to get really good at jumping without, well, jumping, but who knows? i hope you're right. if you figure out how to dunk at 60 years of age, with your current state being "unable to jump 12 inches without hurting knees," then hell yeah i'd consider that valuable.

in any case, good work on losing all that weight so far and good luck on continuing to get in shape.

side note: it's funny that you'd point to karl malone, who had a 28" standing vertical (i.e. ~4" worse than mine when i was training for it; i am not a super athlete) and wasn't exactly known as an above-the-rim player. whatever training he did worked for him like gangbusters.

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