 What is good happy Friday Friday feeling feeling friggin good today Whoo, I'm sure you've seen by now Hopefully if not actually not hopefully because not that many pieces at 4,000 views boy. I dunked really well yesterday So check that out that vlog. It was just yesterday. You know how to fucking find videos Just go to my channel. You know, it's the latest one. Okay best dunk so far of 2019 might be my highest day ever I matched my highest day which was which was my head at the backboard on a 10-foot rim which I did again yesterday first try and I say I matched my highest day ever because I've only I've done that before I didn't really measure today But that feels amazing because it's I didn't even expect to jump that well But I wanted to jump even higher soon. I want to anyway check that out. Welcome to dunk life daily We on day three. I want to keep this as consistent as possible dunk training life Training to what it's about. It's about both. I learned about life through dunking and life I learned about through living it, bro And the more I live it the more I love it and the more I want to share So other people can live it to the max I'm all about maxing it out obsessed with progress and I want to start every single day with that Energy as you probably know by now, but that's what this is about. So I hope this the minimum you get from this boost, you know little boost up So yeah, that's what it's about another thing I wanted to mention leave all your comments below This will be the community that you can see all the comments because I get a lot of DMs of the same question So leave them below. I'm pumping out content, bro I got vlogs and podcasts all platforms friggin whatever So just if you have any questions from wherever you hear drop it on this YouTube video So it's all in one place because then other people can read the question. That's what today's is about It's a very popular question. I get which is about knee pain jumpers knee pain How to fix it? How do how do I know if it's jumpers knee? My knowledge is a lot of experience and a lot of talking from trainers and dealing with it in many different ways myself So And the other thing I want to talk about is patience because it goes hand-in-hand with fixing your jumpers knee and also just life And training as well. It's very it's one of the hardest things for me is having that patience because I want to do the most But sometimes patience is the most productive. So with knee pain jumpers knee I think every dunker is probably going to experience knee pain It's a simple formula to get knee pain and that is your loading your knee tendon too much Jumping is the biggest force you can put on it unless you're like trying to jump with like 500 pounds on your back The point might what I'm trying to say is like lifting weight if you're lifting like 400 500 pounds on a squat You're usually going down slow and up and that's a lot of tension on your knee But jumping could be produced like the way I jump like super powerful super fast as hard as I possibly can Most of the time you're jumping you're jumping as hard as you can. That's what you should be side side tip Jump as hard as you can When you're doing that you're applying so many pounds of force through the ground That's what jumping is it's applying force and producing force And that's why you need to get stronger another side tip get stronger and faster. You'll apply more force So applying that much force is going to cause a ton of tension a ton of load on that tendon So when you do that and you jump over and over again You're probably going to load that tendon too much Because if you went from not jumping to jumping a lot Which a lot of us do when they start dunk training is you're going to develop some pain there So now how do you fix it? You have jumpers knee main thing is mainly stop jumping. That's a big one patience, it's really tough to stop jumping So my tips for how to fix jumpers knee and how to get back to strength My knees are the best they've ever been by the way So I could share my experience in a second but the best tips I have right now are Stop jumping and then get to know your body yesterday's was about awareness You got to get to know your body that pain skill of your knee you want it under a three So like where it's bearable pain, but it doesn't like kill So just do nothing just try not to even like go upstairs try not to even like bend it full range of motion Just try to really lay off it and ice and things like that just to really get the pain low Then that's like that's when it's like the worst Then you want to do isometrics and everything I talk about in this in this rehab formula is Gradual super super gradual so take that jumpers knee do some isometrics If you don't know what those are just you too But it's just where you hold a weight and like keep it basically flexed in your knees So you stimulate some Whatever the fuck goes on in your tendons recovery to do that, but you want to do isometrics once a day Hold it for 40 do like three sets of 45 seconds You could do it once a day right do that for like a couple days, but see how it feels in two days You have to give it a two-day break and every time you do this by the way This is shout out to John Evans who helps me with this specific Timeline like this every every two days every say you like put like ten pounds of weight It's like super light ten pounds of weight two days later. It feels the same It doesn't get worse you can check that off that you can handle that So that's how you want your mindset to be and that's what I want to teach on this podcast Is the mindset behind these things because teach a man to fish and whatever the quote is is like you give a man a fish He's for a day teach a man to fish you can do it for for life dunk life So yeah, so you do that then you add more weight then you add more frequency So at some point you'll be doing isometrics three times a day, but that's all you're doing isometrics three times a day Getting it strongly be 50 pounds of weight three sets of 50 Three three sorry three sets of 45 seconds and give it a couple days. So what I did is isometrics for a couple weeks It sucked. It's just like all I did in the gym is just like isometrics Let that pain get really down and I couldn't even body squat without pain like the second I bent I felt pain so just keep testing that a little bit But you don't want to like you don't want to do like 20 body squats as it hurts me like I wonder if it's gonna hurt No, do the isometrics try like one body squats see if it hurts then do body squats and Super gradual into that and be patient again Do like two body squats if you have no pain you win wait two days if no pain You're good if it hurts then go back a little bit You know you got to go back in you might have to rest again So if say you do two body squats and it kills in two days for whatever reason you got to go back to what you did before that and Rep out that range so like no body squats a little bit heavier isometrics you get the point So you do body squats and then slowly work up to weighted squats again slowly slowly slowly And then the best thing for your knee tendon is jumping because it's like it makes that tendon the stiffest Which is makes it the strongest which is like the healthiest it can be so you work your way up to body squats And once you can do body squats, and then you're adding weight So you're adding like a hundred thirty five pounds then you could stop the weight and start doing baby jumps You could watch this all on my vlog I did this for the past few months from like November to January or month February. I did all of this It's all on my vlog. I went from ISOs only to babe to body squats to to To lightweight with the just a bar squatting and this was all like every two days I was doing this and then slowly I would push a little bit You got to push it and test a little bit But you you have to the best thing to do is to know what you're doing Patience wait for it give it time because then you're gonna strengthen it So then you go up to baby jumps and then you start pushing it a little bit and then do different things try one-legged jumps Plyometrics are really great for when you can handle it now that I'm so healthy and I dunk and I have zero pain That's what whatsoever. I'm still pushing it So I'll go on a high high box and just step off it and do landings and I'm constantly pushing my tendons So that way they keep getting stronger, but that took a long time I went through months of not even lifting not even lifting the bar just straight ISOs and body squats, so Patience and now a little bit to end it on patience is I have a lot of times where I want to do more But you can't always just keep pumping keep pumping keep coming. You got to be productive with it So for example, sometimes I want to produce a video like that night I know like for example yesterday I edited like crazy But if I had too much to do I would have wanted to get it out that day because I like to pump it The same day and Thursdays I guess is a good day for YouTube sometimes But I got to remember sometimes my sleep is more important and then the next day I'll come up with better ideas make better videos and make better content and that patience is something I've had to learn that with this training is that you can't there is no shortcut. There is no secret You're never gonna ask that you're never going to have some one of these dunkers. Oh the secret is this It's for again Butterfly skips that I just made up those are the secret everybody who's jumping over 45 inches is doing That no it's just straight patience But if you want it if you want some height check out my latest video that was So much patience. I've been waiting to jump that high for since last year since like two months after last year's Dunkamp, which was like July August like August September. I haven't jumped that high. I got hurt I had to rehab my knee. I did all this stuff I'm talking about then I got back from Dunkamp just now And I was like ready to fly my highest ever because I was feeling really bouncy But I couldn't go full approach because of my hamstring because that I like really overworked it And so I had to be patient for these past two weeks and plus I'm publicly posting all my progress So all and my YouTube does the best when I dunk vlog So the patience is the hardest for me because all I want to do is show the progress But I can't so like my YouTube's writing on it my own personal mood is writing on it's a lot But stay patient. That's what this is about. I know we start with energy But that energy is to make sure you're staying focused and make sure you're staying on your grind And it's worth it because now I have no knee pain. I'm feeling the healthiest ever And I actually pushed my hamstring a little bit this week Which I think I'll talk about on tomorrow's podcast Which is like how to know how to deal with pain how to deal with that pain scale and what you're doing, but stay Patient that's the toughest thing to do and don't and when I say stay patient Also, don't just like go for goals because they're goals like I had that windmill Wednesday post if you saw it It's like don't just push yourself to get a windmill on Wednesday if you want to land one That's what makes it worth it is that when you're healthy like right now I can jump as much as I possibly want and my knees feel the strongest I've ever been not even a wince of pain even when I finish a dunk session They feel amazing and that's because I took the time to build that foundation. All right, this is kind of a long one Last thing I wanted to say is do you want to see a live stream this podcast because on the weekends I could probably do a live stream, but I need I need some feedback So if you want to see a live stream or you rather just see this in the morning That's cool too because the live stream or the the the recorded one like this high quality, baby Audio video everything the pot the live stream will be probably just my computer camera Which is fine, but the good audio and it but you can ask your question So if you want to see a live stream, it'll be tomorrow morning around 9 p.m. 10 p.m. East I mean whoa 9 a.m. 10 a.m. Eastern So let me know if you want to let's see a live stream dunk life daily we out Let's get it stay on your grind work it keep working. Let's get it to the loop