 Holy shit, I'm alive What a day, you know What a day it's been great so far happy Saturday. I got great sleep had 14 million dreams that were fucking weird One I was like in a hospital, but like doing good things like feeling good I think I was thinking about my body so much. I don't remember anyway having a great morning already It's just such a beautiful day. I sat on the patio listen to the goddamn birds chirped Yeah, and What's good dunk live daily 38 I think people buying my book give me great feedback So if you want that go get it I might give one away for free. So if you want that free book comment below and I might pick a winner tomorrow, but um Jumping feels great. My body hurts a little bit But I guess I have to say this life insight. I want to go off on a whole Episode about this about my life insight, but I want to have a lot of good information for today Not that's not good information, but I have some Detailed information about my actual training that I think is very valuable that wallets in my head and fresh I want to give it to you, but my life insight is I'm an entertainer. I like doing this I like throwing the camera on yelling at you whether it's Wrapping or podcasting or making videos on YouTube. I love the entertainment. I love the thought of people Consuming my stuff and just like having a better life. That's like the simplest most general Overall picture of what I love to do and it's such it was such a nice Thought of like what if I can make my life around that because I was like I want to help people train and dunk But I think the number one thing is entertainment So if you came here for the training and all the things just know you're in for a fucking fun ride at all times I'm gonna find a way to make you laugh or something. You can't force it though It can't force it. Anyway, what I wanted to talk about today Which is my training is My diet and my body and the mind-body connection and how I've made a lot of progress there I'm gonna call my friend Justin too because he's been helping me with the diet and the physique And he's a dunker as well, but more on the Aesthetics side too, so he's coming from like the aesthetics bodybuilding and then meeting at dunking And I'm coming from more of I don't even know what I'm coming from but we meet at dunking We're both he's a high-level athlete as well He's a really incredible jumper did track in high school or in college actually and then Yeah, I'm just gonna have him on the phone and talk about my diet because he's I'm on point right now. I'm fucking on point. My phase is going super well. My hamstrings getting healthier I did sleds yesterday if you watched my Instagram and I just feel the most lean the most cut I have cuts in my body I didn't even know I could have and then on top of that to make progress in those cuts and to learn about my Body is the most intoxicating thing and I put it on my story today is that I'm just incredibly fascinated by Places I didn't even know exist. I can take myself dunking is obviously one of them But my body is another one so making progress there I think is so important because when you learn that mind-body connection and you're able to do things with your body You didn't know you can do then my lifting will get better my jump technique will get better and it's just Understanding how your body moves is so important to everything you do training wise So I just wanted to give you all those details in my diet has been really good for the phase I'm in because it's keeping me lean keeping me light Which is what you want with jumping but you don't want to be lean like super light and super crazy lean like a body Builder because then you're gonna have no energy and you're gonna have no elasticity. Oh here. He is right now ready Can you see that oh? I missed it. Let's go. Call him back real quick. So yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna discuss it with him Come on What's up, dude? You're up. We're up. We're live. We're live right now So I was just telling them Good morning, sir So I was just telling them how how you were helping me with my diet and also that it's like the best It's ever been right now and how I want to be super light and lean but not like bodybuilder light and lean where I've no energy And I've got no water. So what's the balance there? What do you think I'm doing right with my diet? So because you saw what I ate yesterday. So what do you think I'm doing right so far? Connection what fuel your body needs to so it's not just You know my body connection into the mechanical aspect is also a nutrients What you know, your body's craving what it means and you're you're staying the course and I think the water You know, you got the constant feel worried at the constant You know good proteins that the constant good vitamins going on all time good fiber So I think it's all for you and it's been you know a couple months and now you're drying out your lean You're strong and your output is probably, you know approaching You know a little bit of a pee because now your body fat is dropping dramatically, you know any lower right now I think that you would start losing energy levels So you really like you're in that sweet spot now some people could get leaner than others But I think they're really in that sweet spot where you know, you're using all your your your fuel properly Your hormones are probably in a great place your mind's in a great place and you're bouncing gonna be in a great place Yeah, so thank you first of all so then So now tomorrow morning like I'm planning on dunking So what would be like a good fuel up night because I usually have as you know Like the chicken quinoa and avocados some fats and carbs So what do you think would anything different or any any other important things that other people should fuel up with their body for a dunk day I like the refeed and the carb load with my before and something super light in the morning. It's not anything If you're gonna jump midday, I would have a high protein breakfast high fats I get your carbs in a couple hours before And then you know people because you don't want to get too lethargic if you're gonna like carb load an hour before You can be like black, you know, you're right over so, you know Jump in the morning try carb recede Recreate the night before and hit that caffeine or more of a cafe People sometimes people need you know that morning fuel as well It's you know depend on the body, but I would say I would start with the carb recede the night before I get the glycogen storage filled out Have a light breakfast stay light because that's also, you know, we want to stay light We wanted to keep those energy levels high get an inflex bike in the morning and my crash energy levels Right. You gotta be careful about so so what are you what phase are you in right now? Are you still jumping? Well, you know, I was in that speed phase and I was feeling really good I was probably approaching a peak and I heard my ankle a little bit So, you know, I can't get those speed left in that I want to so I'm just gonna imagine I was bashing my skull to win And So good question here, I got a good question for you Good question for you is that since you got injured people that like we're doing well like say for myself I got injured. How would your job diet change to stay lean but not lose too much? They're not gonna be there To see how that feels Would you agree that you don't want to just like add cardio in slowly because then I you don't want to lose your explosiveness So what could you do like explosively while you have like a bad ankle? So whatever movement I'm doing I'm doing until my most, you know Explosive capacity where it's a curl a bench press at my body connection. You know, yeah, I agree You know, you don't necessarily have to go to the web But if you're really you know in that moment and you're feeling it out each even if you're going through it Oh, but I think that's something important to do as well, you know for me right now, you know Yeah For sure Yeah, I just like the I just like the idea that keeping the concept keeping the concept Explosive like even if it's just your upper body keep that work because I think that's important for people to know is like You're not just like going to cardio to start shedding you're trying to still with that explosive movements All right, buddy. Well, I'll let you go. I appreciate that go kill your workout. Let's go All right, buddy talk you later. All right, so that's that's Justin Sikari appreciate that a lot as you heard It's a lot about the mental it's a lot about the My body connection as I mentioned before but stay explosive with your stuff I don't really do I'm doing more cardio now come trying to dunk in games, but that's because I'm jumping if I hurt myself I wouldn't do long distance cardio. I would still try to do something explosive even swimming I'd like to do Explosively but something you can do work around your injury But stay in that explosive movements if you're in that speed phase So as you can see there's a ton of variables with ever phase you're in That's what I do with my training if you want to work with me and him we actually work together Our training is custom to you custom to whatever ailments you have and get you right. There's so many variables Everybody's got injuries. Everybody's got different bodies. So it's about learning that body That's why I was I really wanted them on the phone So you can see how much we focus on our mind body connection with our training because that's the only way you're gonna Give your body the right stimulus you need for what phase you're in What stage you're in like how long you've been training and then what your goals are because right now my goal is to jump my Higher sometimes your goals is to get your strongest So you need to feed in a different way But it's about fueling your body correctly and using that fuel correctly and that's bars right there All right now for everybody's favorite segment of the day on this day in history every day you can make history Okay, today's August 17th yesterday was my grandpa's birthday that passed into the realm of the unknown of the beauty of the love So shout out to him. I love you and August 17th today. 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