 Yo Steve yo Steven working here. You're gonna get the vlog up today or what it's done tip Tuesday Well, what I'm I'm working on it as we see people are waiting. You keep interrupting. I can't do anything So no it's done tip Tuesday. I'm well aware stung tip twos. It's done tip twos. They don't tip twos. They I know tip twos They don't tip twos. They Don't tip twos. They yeah, all we do is dunk. Don't tip twos. They yeah boy. You don't want to jump I know it's a good vibe. It's a freaking bumper. Bro quit joking around get it done Uh-huh. I mean, I'm okay. Nobody cares about your vlogs. Hmm. Well, I look I like to document been documenting everything Nobody cares. I like to document for myself, bro get others to dunk teach him how I'm showing them through my my journey I'm showing them what I'm doing so they can why are you doing clone videos when you should be doing dunk tip Tuesday? You're 50% of the clone. Actually 100% of the clone videos without you. I'm nothing Why did you lose nine inches of bounce injuries setbacks, bro? Give up already Never dude. It's a mindset. It's a lifestyle. It's my yeah, I mean it sounds like excuses to me not an excuse It's just me. It's just this it's I mean, but come on the mountain sometimes the mountain you fall and you go You have to climb it sounds like excuses to me motivation inspiration people love that energy. They love it Do you feel delusional sometimes I feel delusional, but it's fine. Why are we why are what are we even doing? Why are we even doing anything? I mean, I have no idea. That's the best point you've made I I literally think about that when I wake up. What's earth doing? What are we doing on and we're crawling around? There's a fireball. There's like rocks and the moon spinning around it all the moon actually doesn't go like this It goes all over the place. You're not your body. What am I doing my skin? Why do I care about my skin so much? I'm like so much more my skin than my senses. We have five senses, but I love that energy I love giving people the energy. Oh, you're so great. We want to hear. Oh, Steven. We love your energy We love we want to hear more. Yeah, we want to hear. Yeah, sure Is that oh please yell at us some more. Oh, we love when you yell at us I'm not trying to yell. I'm just I just get I get excited Beginner gains are overcoming this injury every week making progress feeling amazing, but it's been a long time coming Are you willing to overcome any obstacle that comes in your path during this dunk journey? Are you willing to be patient? Are you willing to make those tough decisions of what your body needs now? That's the art of training. How good are you at making those decisions and stimulating what your body needs to respond? That's the name of the game. That's what we're trying to do We're trying to push our body to those next limits But our body wants to just keep us safe. Our biology does not want to go into the unknown We have fears. We have doubts. Can you overcome them? That's what it's about That's what it's all about in the freaking and that's what we're doing today Let's freaking go yo Great week of work so far today. I woke up with insane energy. We live for these days It's not every day like this even yesterday. I was just feeling like I don't know what I'm doing But today whoo, so I headed to the gym to go dunk keeping it just Optimal meaning I'm going to do what I need focus on the drop step to stand still focus on what I want to do And not just go nuts and lose my mind, but I still do that inside, but I channel it All right, so the second after this dunk session I went right to stretching which is one of the hardest times because I'm fatigued I don't feel like putting in more work But I really need to because this is a really Optimal time for my body to go back to tightness because I just compressed it by jumping on it So I really at the length and I'm doing downward dogs looking shredded as can be Focusing on pushing my hips high. It's really hard for me to even keep my heels down and keep my back in the right position So I just do these loaded beast type positions and slowly just kind of use my legs as a lever to keep pushing my hips higher and higher Now I'm doing the pigeon stretch here. Just really trying to hit my hips. My hips are incredibly tight So I have to hit them right after I dunk right before I dunk all the time Just stay on them because over the years of my training. I've made them so tight and inflexible That I have to really stay on them to really carve new patterns I know I say that a lot, but it's a really tough thing to do and I'm noticing just how consistent I have to be Pigeon stretch is fantastic Try to keep the hips square the knee at 90 degrees and just really feel your body and breathe breathe breathe Couch stretch one of the biggest keys for me is that back glute staying flex So as you see as I'm leaning forwards like this, it's really easy to let that back glute relax But you really want it tight as if it's flex that you can it's a stiff muscle not stiff But it's it's flex is the best way to put it So you could really feel the hip flexor working and you could really feel the rectus firmoris getting stretch Which is a deep part of your quad muscle here I'm doing some pulses to try to increase my range of motion But again flex that black black back glute as much as you can keep it flexed All right, so after this first day the next day I was filming for my dunk project workouts and I was doing the workouts and I started to say You know what? Let's see if I can get a couple of dunks down By the way, stephencelli.com my website You can find all my free workouts my instant jump tech six week program to master your technique and the dunk project Learn more if you want so the day after a full jump session I was just trying on this super tough rim and you'll see how I did here Ah that felt good There we go Hey, not bad for a rusty McRuster sin Vic it's only been a couple weeks. I've actually jumping. I feel like I'm disconnected from my legs So we're getting that back But I'm happy to be able to dunk on this freaking hard ass rim. So we're back Feeling cool And excited to uh be flying again Gotta stay disciplined on that drop step and do whatever you get to do. What's up? I'm telling you this puppy's up there. Is that oh Exactly 10 feet, but it feels stiff It's like 10 feet on the top, but that boy feels up there. I'm telling you can be but I'll take it So I was happy with that session and then the next day. I'm like, you know what? I'm really going to leave it up to see how I feel. Do I feel fatigued? I'm going to go to the gym and recover But I was like if I have energy I'm going to push it with the heavy lifts and that's what I did I got 225 pounds on the rdl pushing that hamstring carving new patterns remolding tissue It's a non-stop relentless pursuit to get my body in the shape I know it can get in and that is climbing the mountain How hard are you willing to push yourself? How high do you believe you can push your potential? That's what I'm all about. Thanks for sharing this journey I'm so pumped to get these game dunks to get back to dunking. Let's freaking go. I'm going to new york I'll see you there Right there