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mvp805

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36 Year Old Looking To Hop Once Again?
« on: February 24, 2011, 04:00:47 pm »
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Hi everyone, new to the forums.

Back 10 years ago, i had a 39" vertical built on some squats and mainly plyos through high school and jc. I'm 36 now 6'4" 225 lbs at 12% bf. Back then i was 6'3" 190ish with about the same bf%.

I stopped playing hoops about 8 years ago, but picked up it again, about a year ago, playing in some local leagues with the young 20 year olds. It was pretty hard, because your body forgets what it was use to, and i stopped all vertical training.

I have not tested my vertical, but i can easily grab the rim, from standing straight up,no warmup. During the leagues, some of the players were talking about my head near the rim, but i doubt it. I never attempted to dunk, in fear of getting hung. It's just strange when you haven't played in so long, timing, jumping, explosiveness, lateral movements are all off, as if you're uncoordinated.

I workout 4-5 days a week, and have a solid diet, as i have always eaten well.

I want to introduce plyos back in, and knowing me, i would jump straight into depth jumps, and box jumps, which is what i normally did back then. It's probably not the greatest idea, so maybe someone can lead me into the right direction as far as plyos

maybe jump squats, ankle jumps, lateral over an object, lunge jumps?

Should i start as a beginner into plyos again, or maybe novice or intermediate?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
Max
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joejoe22

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Re: 36 Year Old Looking To Hop Once Again?
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2011, 04:28:58 pm »
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Welcome!

Nice to see some grown ups around these parts.  Anyhow, sounds like your in pretty good shape so high intensity plyos might be ok.  Speaking from experience (I just turned 30), I don't recover like I used to.  I mean, not 3 years ago, I would do Army PT, swim at lunch, and play basketball at night, then get up and do it again.  Never felt sore or got hurt.  Shoot, now if I run 3 times in the same week, my knee hurts so bad I can't do anything.  

I would say, err on the side of caution at first.  You can do whatever you want, just lower the intensity until you tell how you will recover.  What are you current lifts?  Mainly: Squat, Dead, C&J, Snatch, Press and Bench?  Just curious.

Make a journal, and post your workouts on there and lots of folks will comment and give their opinions.  There's a lot of good stuff on here, and everyone is more than willing to share what they've done.  Good luck.