 Welcome back to another Don't tip Tuesday All we do is talk Don't tip Tuesday Boy you don't want to jump Don't tip Tuesday Always going up baby And I do it for the love Don't tip Tuesday For the subs And I can never get enough Don't tip Tuesday And I ain't never given up Never, never Board cooking We do a podcast every single week And a Don't tip Tuesday every single week So check out my podcast we're leveling up And today is And guess what else we got We also got this, where is it For the OGs and guess what I don't give a if you're new or not I got the sound board it's going to have a lot of fun So really enjoying making this content For you guys today As I bring you It's three keys And I'm all about using dunking As a way to prove to yourself That anything is possible And today is no short of that So let's just get right into it Number one key Is staying injury free And what I mean by that is If you can have a constant Progress trajectory That is upwares I almost had it what the And I tried to get my words out correctly But sometimes I stutter and I got trajectory But that was harder and then I got the easy one wrong And so I was proud of myself and I started thinking Instead of just talking so that's something about me But anyway If you can be injury free You can have more of an upward trajectory Without any blips Progress does have some ups and downs But injuries and overtraining can help you I mean can force you to stay down for a long time They take you out for a lot longer Than just a couple of rest days So injury prevention is huge So a few things that I've learned from mine Is tendons They take longer than muscles to adapt So just understand that for example Sometimes we're squatting so much That our muscles are getting bigger and stronger That we squat more and more But our tendons take longer to adapt So they start to get overloaded Because they're taking a more amount of time To get stronger So our muscles are exceeding What our tendons can handle if that makes sense Another thing about injury prevention Work on your weaknesses And imbalances Because that is what causes injuries That's what causes tightness A lot of my tightness in my body Is because one muscle is way stronger Than the counter balancing muscle So it's just pulling on it Without any balance so it's causing that tightness So if you can work on that balance You can work on your range of motion And mobility You can help prevent injuries And there's always something to work on To be injury free and balance Because for example with my minor hamstring tear Right now I can work on my freaking toes I can work on my fucking Cavs and ankles Is what I meant to say is ankles Ankle mobility, ankle strength And by doing that you're Preventing those injuries in the future Because a lot of times when we land wrong If our ankles can handle that It won't get injured but it's a lot of times when you land wrong We're not ready for that position Which is why I'm so big on being With motion not avoiding them But being in long ranges of motion Increasing that mobility so you can get strong Through those All those ranges so for example When I see somebody at the gym that's doing back And they're kind of yanking it with their whole body Think about that if they're using their body To kind of give it momentum They're probably weak in that area Where they need that momentum So instead of just yanking it to get the full rep Why don't you strengthen that range Of the motion so you're using the entire muscle And not just strong in some positions That's why when some people bench press They're strong maybe at the bottom but they can't get it the up way So you can train those parts and you can do so much With your body so balance Is huge make sure you're strengthening Your body balance because a lot of times We get caught up working with I have videos on the mind body connection I can do more of it by the way answer all your questions The subscriber dunk review will be back Next week the subscriber dunk review will be back Thank you all for submissions I have so many I'm gonna go through a ton of them Next week so stay tuned for next And we're killing it and by the way I have a music video coming out that sounds like But it just goes what you do In yesterday's podcast I used it as the intro I'm super pumped about it and so it's just a lot of fun That's what today's about and so I'll switch On to next number two so first one Is injury free stay balanced Work on your weaknesses and work On balancing your body and working on Being as mobile as possible doesn't mean You need to be Olympic style stretching But The longer the more range you have The more you're using all of the muscle And the more there's gonna be balance So key number two which is what I love About creating content and what you know About me the most is energy So I want you guys to see every piece Of your dunk journey every single Outs of things you do I wanted to say energy again Every thing that you do for your Dunk journey in terms of energy And what I mean by that is when you go For a workout when you go to dunk You're literally using max energy You're trying to explode as hard As possible if you're trying to increase Your vert you need to push Yourself at least 100% I say that because you're really trying to exceed it More like I call it the 101% rule But if you're thinking of sprinting Right if you're trying to sprint Faster than you've ever sprinted Do you think you can run 98% How are you ever gonna Exceed your sprinting speed Same is true for jumping I just use sprinting Because it's a little easier to understand So you have to have Max energy to push yourself past Your limits now when it comes to those Dunk days if you can reverse engineer Your life to have max energy On those days you can have the Best dunk days I'm not just Talking about dunk days but those are what we're going for That's what this is all about when we live the Friggin dunk life Okay that was terrible it says that in the beginning Gotta edit that thing out okay Okay but when it comes to Energy everything you do in life Is using the same energy tank So I'm big on sleep I'm big on nutrition And so when you start to reverse engineer And see where you're leaking energy You can have more energy for your Workouts and now when you have more energy For your workouts they have better quality You're able to do your plow Metrics with more intensity You're able to even recover and stretch With more energy I've noticed with myself When I go to stretch sometimes I do some lifting First and I'm tired to stretch Stretching anymore because I used My physical energy for the day Speaking of physical energy Other things you do take away From your physical energy because you're one body You're one being if you didn't realize that you're one Skin vessel okay When you're home if you've ever had a stressful day People calling you something happens in your family Emotional trauma you're drained That doesn't mean that you have a Separate tank for your physical energy Yes sometimes you can kind of You haven't moved your body so you still have Gonna be a lot less energy than If you had a restful sleep and you've done Nothing and you're peaceful right So think of everything as energy and the last Thing I want to say is I don't want to make a whole video On this is habits and routine is That when I talk about sleep and nutrition And stretching and all the recovery Recovery is Equally if not more Important than the training because it's everything You do outside we train for an hour Two hours a day we dunk once or twice A week but everything else Is how we cultivate that energy How we repair our bodies and when I talk About sleep and nutrition there's a routine That goes into that and when you're trying to Build that into maximum Energy it takes energy at the start More than usual to set those Routines because you're thinking more You're changing your life you're changing Your routine and that's out of the known And the unknown is what's scary which will be The next key hint hint And when you're able to do that And they become part of your routine so It becomes part of your routine meaning like sleeping well And routine and rhythm Nutrition becomes part of your routine going to the grocery Store all those things come into your routine Now they take less energy and those Habits are breeding more energy So think of your Your whole entire Dunk journey as just energy And you will see how you can unlock Your potential and that leads me to the last one Which is simply faith Believing in yourself That you can achieve those goals And what I mean by that is if you Truly believe that you will get to the Level you want to get to You will never stop working Every single obstacle Injuries or Lack of energy you will become You will be able to see them As ways you can learn and you will start to See the solutions but if you don't Have that limitless mindset When an obstacle it comes it will Stop you it will It will slow you down And you will start building momentum away From your goals so you need to have This unrelenting relentless Mindset that you will achieve these Goals so that every obstacle that comes Is just another learning Curve for you to get over And I use that mindset with my injuries To continue to learn even with this hamstring Try this try that try this try this And when I overcome it you're better For it with my knee I had knee Paid for so long and when I finally said You know what I'm gonna cure it no matter what Sorry I got a call oh a guy I did it out of here that's so funny I got it recorded now when I finally Committed to curing my knee I was able to not only reduce The knee pain but get it stronger Because now I understood what happened And when you can understand your problems And understand them you can find The solutions and overcome them And level up and that's what it's about With this dunk journey so I'll leave you with this The end of this is what I want you to notice Notice your mind in every Single work out in every single Moment of your day do the doubts Come and acknowledge them Notice what they are I don't think I can heal this I have no idea how I'm gonna jump higher I don't know what to do next All those doubts make them Known because then you could start Answering them I don't know what to do What could I do to learn here I don't know how to heal this hamstring Okay well who could I ask what could I do What have I tried what have I not tried What what does it feel like there's so many Questions that come from them and if you don't Start answering them you'll be stuck Right at that doubt and you will never Move past it so Acknowledge your doubts in the workouts For example I don't know if I can lift this weight Instead of doubting that think about What if I lift this weight how would that feel If I achieved it and then let go of the detachment And let go of the outcome that's detachment I don't want to get too spiritual on you But notice that because If you can notice those things and you're willing To acknowledge that fear you can now And you can start to move past it and level up So I'm just trying to break you free Unlock your potential and live limitless Have a great fricking dunk tip Tuesday let's go Don't tip Tuesday Don't tip Tuesday Don't tip Tuesday