 Yo what is good dunk life daily episode 2 day 2 let's go yo more pump than ever for this podcast bro I'm seriously loving it it feels perfect to me and it feels like it's everything culminating every every strength that I have into one and I'll explain the dunking aspects pretty straightforward it's my training it's updates on my training everything I learned through training but the dunking the whole journey the process the mindset the nutrition all of it is a fucking you know leads into all aspects of my life and the dunk life part of it the life part is what the fuck is going on so my choice in that question answering that is just enjoy as much as I can make the most of what's happening and that's what I want to inspire to do and that's what I want this to be about and what I love about this is that it's the dunking is my passion and the expressing myself with my passion and that energy is my passion so I start this podcast started every morning with that energy so that if you don't learn anything at least you start with a little bit of that fuel boy you feel me so today I wanted to also mention that any questions you have dunk life related put it in the comments below because that's what I answer them and I figured that's the best way to do this because obviously great for engagement come on but also if you DM me I'm getting the same question over and over again for years now and we've always wanted like a forum but if you post in the comments below other people can read them people can like them it'll just be a lot easier and I can answer them less so yeah answer your questions below and I've gotten some great ideas already for podcasts such as knee tendons and friggin strength training oh you know all the different basic trainings type of things that will definitely be covered in this podcast and yes I'm really pumped it's day two I'm feeling really good about it I'm trying to make it more structured trying to make it if you were listening to the podcast last season I should call it is that I was all about self-improvement reading books different things that were really beneficial little tips and tidbits and little nuggets of information so I want to keep that going but I want to be even more structured so I want to kind of build my dunk life principles and that's what today is about the first the most important DLD principle that I think is the foundation of every single thing I do dunk life both sides of it is the awareness and what do I mean by that so awareness is simply just being aware of your emotions your feelings your body everything from training on the training side of it is the mind-body connection the awareness where are you feeling things how are you stimulating your body that's the number one training prince principle that's been the hardest for me but it's the number one thing I try to stress for people that are trying to dunk and trying to train to dunk is learning what you need it's a very simple formula to jump higher but it's very hard to make sure you're using the right components of that formula for example you need strength training you need power training you need speed training simple math simple physics the more force you produce the higher you're going to jump right so if I have a certain amount of muscle mass certain amount of strength when I jump it's going to produce a certain amount of force I can't I can produce more force with more strength or more speed it's just math just physics but when I met when I'm if I have this much muscle in my body this much meat on my bones and I run full speed I can't produce any more force I can try to get faster and I could try to get stronger and those are the two things you got to do but sometimes you you have to know where you're at so you have that performance window Daniel back jump science is a great video on performance window just look it up it's a he has like a whole strength training series jump science on YouTube but you to rate you can be performing at the top of the bottom of that window usually when you're in your speed training phase and you're like doing your sport specific training you're at the top of that window you need to raise that window you got to get stronger and even though when you get stronger you raise that window if you're on the video podcast the windows bigger but you might be performing at the bottom of the window which is lower than the top of your previous window just because you're not maximizing that new found strength but now your windows higher aka your potentials higher anyway that all stems from the awareness of what you need when people strength train for me when I was doing it I was I had no good I had bad but my body connection I was strength training ripping apart my muscles gaining size and digging myself way too deep into the strength training phase which is going to be another podcast about how to know when you're focused on what thing like if you if you strength train for too long you're just going to become a strength trainer you're not going to be a dunker so you got to keep in focus and keep that awareness of where your body is at how you're feeling get in tune with it feel every muscle fiber feel what's tight what's not and what what what is a way to do this in life the meditation is great for that because what you do with meditation is you practice bringing that awareness back so you let your mind drift and then you're able to bring it back to one solid point like your breath right so what that does to me is strengthening my awareness throughout the day if I'm all in my head I'm tense I'm stressed I remember to breathe and just remember oh what the fuck is going on at life is great you know so that is why today's is the most important dld principle because it applies to everything I think it's the foundation of making progress which I am obsessed with hence this podcast hence making it fucking 4k yo I hope it comes out 4k today I made it 4k the other day did it render it properly you know I hope it is we'll see anyway I love pushing the limits pushing myself what I can do I'm obsessed with that progress I'm obsessed with making the most out of this weird black hole colliding result after effect of the universe you know gotta watch that documentary I'm telling you I'm halfway through it it's ridiculous back to awareness with your life it makes even question everything so question why you even have these goals I've questioned do I even really want to dunk or is it my ego is it something I want to prove to other people but even if no one was watching even if and it's okay if that's a true but the point is that if you're going towards that goal for those reasons it's not going to lead you to happiness and you're going to not be fulfilled and I don't say that because I like I know that but it's just you're going for the wrong reasons if you think it's like I just want to prove these people wrong you're gonna do it you're gonna be okay well I wasted all this time when it could be spent doing something you freaking love so when I question my dunking is like if nobody's watching I just love the the thought of being able to do this just a really fun activity probably the most fun physical activity I can do and all the things I've learned have been super beneficial so question your entire goals question your entire passion so you can make sure you're on that right path because full circle that's when you feel the most energy and that's why I'm doing all this because when I keep making progress towards what I love and keep making things merge hence the podcast and the energy and the dunk tips sharing my knowledge and also sharing my thoughts about life and expressing myself all of that into one into this podcast I feel so happy about it plus the thought of making my YouTube grow is just amazing too because I want to live that free life um but that's my goals that's I've questioned that forever and I keep questioning I keep doing it you've if you've followed my YouTube for this long time you've seen the progress you've seen the things I've tried that didn't work out and I've all these ideas and different things I want to do but as I do all this I'm building the awareness of why I'm doing it and that's that's the foundation helping me navigate and that and that's it DLD principle number one awareness and we'll be back leave a comment let me know what you think if you're watching this on YouTube you could subscribe on the actual podcast for the audio if you're on audio vice versa you feel me that's it have a good one happy Thursday it's a Thursday classic boys too much thinking Thursday never too much let's go to the Lou Thursday