 Let's go Yo, here's the deal Yo deal is this Whoo got a lot of energy as usual and I'm headed to the gym About to go jump at least I say jump instead of dunk because I don't know if I'm gonna really dunk I definitely want to get that jump stimulus, but the last dunk session I had I went super hard and my hamstrings really painful And I've had injuries with my paint my hamstring in the past where I've kind of pulled it and that's how it feels It's not just sore. It's very painful. I have like no range of motion if I just bend at all It's super painful. It's definitely different than soreness and I felt it in the past It's not that bad, but I don't want to make it any worse And what I think it is thanks to John Evans for kind of pointing it out as I was jumping I was pushing off my left leg Into my penultimate and I did that so hard so much a little bit probably too much For the amount of jumping I've done in the past meaning I didn't really get gradual to jump that much in one session I felt it during the session, but it wasn't that painful But as soon as I stopped it was pretty bad and now it's pretty bad So I don't want to make it worse, but I do want to jump so today will probably be mostly Vert jumps maybe some drop steps maybe even some left right or maybe some plios off a box But I feel like as long as I don't extend my leg unilaterally like I'm running or sprinting type thing I feel like if I jump it'll still be beneficial all things being said. I need that any who I need to get my Drop-step jumps up because I don't want there to be a big disparity as there has been in the past and feeling good Otherwise, I just gonna keep really careful care of my hammy and Dunk life Never stop never stop always Extend my legs so probably gonna keep it super light today Just try to break a sweat and jump straight up straight up and down and that's about it But I think it's still progress because I need to work on my vert so I'm feeling really good about it I just hope my hamstring doesn't take forever because I want to hit my peak real quick and get back to strength training So I could have time to transition back to this elastic phase before a dunk camp. I got like two and a half months Me that's how good it feels hundred percent today totally forgot about it Feel perfectly comfortable changing direction and hopping off it. That's great. I believe very well the past few nights I just keep waking up early wanting to do shit like get the day started So it's hard if I like wake up around whatever and I just have things I rip my mind starts going immediately It's hard to stay in bed. I'm enjoying life man. All right. Let's do some jumping Exactly nine nine and a half I don't even do my dynamic warm-up today because I just feel like extending my leg would hurt my hamstring and make it worse I think at least I can make progress with my standing power jumps. What? That jump was actually pretty good. I got up decent height But right before I jumped I realized I haven't really jumped at all today And I was about to go like full hundred percent and I realized just like when I have a dunk session I got to gradually work up to that so pretty good for my first jump probably about like 70% Let's see if I can get that two-hand rim hang off vert today I'm happy with it because it feels really balanced I went for two hands there and I just feel really balanced jumping equally off both legs, which is good My reach is about I think it was 91 inches 91 and a half inches. So just touching nine nine and a half. What is that? 26 inches so like I'm think I'm jumping like 30 inches because I'm grabbing it like Three inches down my hand 30 inch max vert. It's terrible Maybe like a 30 31 inch standing vert. It's pretty bad, but I never do it So it's good to kind of get numbers on it and keep track of it I think at dunk camp. I got like 32 or 33. I'll double check but standing vert atrocious I got both fingers to the top and not enough to grab it probably probably about one more. Okay, right here on my hand Not the most exciting day, but it's good to kind of have a baseline. It's good for me to kind of focus on one thing I never do just straight vert jumps. I wish it was like more of my choice than just like because of my hamstring But going forward. I think this is definitely gonna be helpful I definitely want to have days like this where I just do this So that way it gives my full approach some rest because it works different muscles And I'm not going full speed and it also works on my power a little bit because I've always had trouble dribbled dunks I think that's part of it. I don't work on this enough So all in all good stuff and hopefully hammy heels up I'm just gonna be doing this until my hamstring heels up not just straight vert jumps But just babying whatever I need to baby and staying in shape and doing what I can to stay elastic and work on me Elasticity, I'll probably do some today actually some line hops Those are really great for feeling explosive whenever I do those consistently I feel the quickest ever so I definitely want to do that today as long as it doesn't aggravate my hamstring I might as well just do like the the double leg ones. Let's get fast Right jump for good measure. There's always something you can work on. I mean unless you're completely immobilized I know it sucks to work on the little things when you want to dunk But there's always something you can work on and just let that fuel your discipline So that way you can make progress learn from me that injuries Take you out, but you can learn from them a lot So try to learn from me so you don't have to learn from your own injuries, but keep pushing stay disciplined I got a really good question on Instagram recently Can I talk about nutrition and self-control and Healthy eating something like that and I'm gonna do a whole podcast on it because I have a lot to say about that But it's it's about your you always got to visualize what your goal is so I have huge dunk goals So for me today if I think if I push it today, I'm not gonna be able to even jump at dunk camp That's only in a few months But if I want to think years down the line where I'm gonna be if today would make me towards that goal or away from that goal It makes it really easy to stay disciplined because I want that goal so badly if that makes sense Well, it does you know what I mean, but just try to stay aware of your goals try not to be in the moment when you're doing your workout, but Always have your goal in the back of your head and your intentions on what you want to do and that discipline will come Easy if it's exactly what you want to do because I want to do this bad Bro, it's a whole life bro. Don't fly. All right. That's it. Don't fly. Love you see it