 We're back. Dunk Tip Tuesday. Let's ride. Dunk Tip Tuesday. Yeah. All we do is talk. Dunk Tip Tuesday. Boy, you don't let me choke. Dunk Tip Tuesday. Don't my bird is going up. Dunk Tip Tuesday. And I do it for the love. Dunk Tip Tuesday. You know I do it for my subs. Dunk Tip Tuesday. And I can never get enough. Dunk Tip Tuesday. And I ain't never giving up. Dunk Tip Tuesday. We made it another week. Welcome to today. Welcome to Dunk Tip Tuesday. Welcome to another moment in time. Hopefully you're alive. If not, I'll see you on the other side in the other realms. If you're new to my channel, every single video is us trying to understand why we exist. And one way to do that is by dunking because we're fighting gravity and maybe we'll get off the planet faster. So this week I accomplished two crazy goals. One, I don't think I've ever done this before, although I've had thousands of videos so it's hard to remember. I've had a 9-9 dunk with a medicine ball, a 3-pound heavy ball. I'm going to go into all the benefits, what I love about it, what I'm still learning about it, my biggest takeaway so far, and of course, the energy of the day. I also increased my deadlift by 20 pounds in about four to six weeks without even deadlifting. It's from stamina. It's from doing cardio. It's from doing accessory lifts as well. Something I learned from. I've talked about this book a bunch, but it's a concept I put into practice where stamina equals strength. So stick around for that video. I made a whole video on that and that leads me to leave your comments. Let me know what you want to see. Dunk tip Tuesdays for you to push your limits. So whatever I can do to help. So first off, this was just a random day. Sometimes I have these days every three, four weeks where I say, you know what? I'm just going to have fun. I was going to go play pickup, so stay tuned for that as well because I want to play pickup and dunking games, but nobody was there. So I'm just going to have some fun, work on whatever I want to work on. I brought the medicine ball and I started feeling great. And what I love is the challenge of the medicine ball. If you follow my channel, if you haven't, I struggle with the dribble dunks because I just run so full speed. And we'll get to that later in the sections of my biggest takeaway. But the dribble dunks are super tough because I don't use my arm swing. I can't use as much speed and I just don't jump properly. But that's what I love about the medicine ball. It forces me to really plant hard, jump hard and jump up. It helps me use the weight to go upwards with the ball because I have to think, I have to bring that heavy thing up. Now, number two, what I'm currently still learning is the balance of how many reps to do. Now, a good example of this, I've been working on my handles as well for October and I've been using the heavy ball a lot and I almost used it too much. And you can, it makes sense. If you use a heavy ball to work on your handles, obviously they're going to get stronger, they're going to get faster. But if you only use a heavy ball every time you work on your handles for weeks and then you go play a regular game, you're not going to have any muscle memory of a regular ball. So it's going to be too fast. It's going to be out of control. So there is a balance there and I'm just started learning how to dribble dunk with this medicine ball. So I'm finding the balance there of how many reps to do and kind of learning and listening to my body when to use the medicine ball, when to use a regular ball and learning those reps. The funny thing about this heavy ball is it's hard to jump with and it kind of pulls you up. Because a part of my brain is saying, use this medicine ball for friggin' weeks and I'll just jump higher, get stronger with it. But I know there's going to be some kind of calibration needed with a regular ball, especially off one dribble or a drop step and making sure I have that as well. And of course you just want the reps with the regular ball to get comfortable with it. And a big takeaway is also that it's hard to dunk easy. It's easy to dunk, but it's hard to dunk easy. And what I mean by that is it's easy to get a perfect lob, full speed, full approach and all those different things. But it's not easy to just off a dribble. When you have one step, just take off and dunk it or off a spin move or from a different angle, all these different angles and just be able to dunk on those things super effortlessly. And that takes practice and those are the reps I need to put in. And that leads me to the next takeaway, which is the reps. You need to put reps in of what you want to get better at. It's not just jump higher, jump higher, jump higher. And then all these other things work. You got to rep them out. And which is why I love the medicine ball because it forces me to do the reps and then that will lead me to the last thing, the energy of the day. A big focus of mine, pun intended, is the focus on the reps because as soon as I got that dunk with the medicine ball, I wanted to start flying. I'm like, if I, my head goes, if I can dunk with this medicine ball, I can probably fly off the dribble. But I also need to reps with the medicine ball. I also need to stay with the drop step so I can work on that drop step because I don't want to just be able to do full approach. I want to dunk easy. I want to dunk from different angles. So I needed to stay focused and that's not easy to do. And one other big energy of the day is don't let time hold you back. Time is not limited. Of course we have time where we want to perform a certain way or we have a game to train for or we have a season, but that should frame your training. That shouldn't be your goal, meaning you can't just jump six inches by six months, right? That is a frame. Like that would be a great goal, but don't be down on yourself. And also don't let it interrupt your training. And that brings me back to focus, which is like, say that is your goal. You can only do your best. Only thing you can do is your best with that time. You only have this amount of time till your goal. So just do your best every single workout. Don't just try to do, okay, to jump six inches. I have to lift 400 pounds. It doesn't make any sense. You can't just start lifting that. Your body has to develop. You have to gradually increase what you do. So you have to understand all you can do is do your best. So for this workout, for my vlog, for my dribble dunks in the moment, yes, I want to jump up. Yes, I want to do the sexy dunks. Yes, I want to go full speed and go all out, but I want to use that energy and that focus into those reps. So that way I get better at my main goal to sum up. What I mean about time is don't say, how do I dunk in three months? What's the fastest way to jump higher in three months? Everything's all the same, which is it's the best you can do right now. So release time, let go of time and be as focused as you can be. So you can be in the moment of every workout learning. Okay, this is what my body needs. So when you go to watch these dunks coming up next, you'll see that I switched the ball and I did a really good job of that. And I ended up getting that two hand dunk because I said, I tried it and it wasn't there. So I said, okay, I need to work on the drop step with the two hands. I did it with the medicine ball with the drop step with the two hands. And then I slowly gradually worked up to the full approach. But if I said, you know what, I'm just going to have more fun or I'm just going to go full speed, or I'm just going to try to see how many dunks I can do with the medicine balls. Like, no, I need to go, I want to go down, down, down, deeper and deeper and deeper into the details so that way I can build the biggest foundation I can. And the better you can be in that moment, the better those reps can be. That's what I mean by switching the ball, making sure I work on the drop step, and that all comes down to the body awareness. And that's who does the best. Those are the people that train the best, the people that know their body and listen to their body the best. They get it to respond how they want. And I'm actually making an entire course on body awareness from how to start training your body awareness, how to find that stimulus sweet spot of every workout, how to do proper active recovery, body composition with body fat versus strength ratios and muscles, how to cause muscle damage versus muscle tension, adding cardio, keeping your tendons healthy, all of that because it's just so huge. So it goes down to all those little details. So you know your body the best, you get it to perform the best and you make the most progress the fastest you can. So I'll see you there. I'll be done tip Tuesday. Head on over to Stevencelli.com to dunk on your dreams. Stop waiting, start dunking, let's fly. All your dunking needs.