 New Drake I'm in this court feeling amazing sweating. What else do I need? Yo Let's go. What is good? We're back. Look most of you are treating your dunk journey You're training and even your frickin life like you're running an obstacle with your eyes closed What are you doing? So look this is what I mean by that so much of training of what I see I'm gonna call I'm gonna take a breath It's a Jewish New Year shana tovats with my fellow Jews. It's a new year I also learned something new on my latest podcast if you listened ten days of awe So it starts now the ten days of awe it's about forgiveness thinking about your sins and really planning it out And then the next holiday in ten days yum kippur, which is the most sacred of the Jewish tradition I just read this recently. So I hope it's true. It seals it So it's kind of like a manifestation in my eyes where it's like this is the time to cleanse forgive yourself think about what you want to do and Manifest it and get so sealed with it that by the end of the holiday Boom, that's who you become so that's what we're doing and then it applies to dunking. So let's get it. This is what I mean We all want to jump higher at least I do most people watching this video want to jump higher You're trying to jump higher. You know your goals and you need to start listening to your body Noticing your body figuring out what you're even giving it to giving it to what's giving yourself What I mean by that is you're doing your training. You're asking does this workout work? Should I do plow metric? Should I do strength training? Should I jump? Should I do technique? What do I need to do? But that's like running an obstacle course say it was that one of those freaking crazy Spartan races which I could see my Insane self doing at some point in my life. The marathons are insane by the way 26 miles I could barely run a mile and that's not a joke endurance needs to work I just read art of resilience stamina equal strength and I promise I will stay on point in this video But I'm all about the energy I want every video to inspire you to just get back to work and bring energy to everything you do and achieve Self-actualization just be the highest potential of the human you could be because that's what I am and if you like this about me Or you'd get some energy that's because you're seeing yourself if you don't like something about me You're seeing yourself as well. We're reflections. Let's get back on point. Where were we so you're running the Spartan race obstacles You're basically asking people anywhere in any part of your life saying at this point of the obstacle your eyes are Closed say there's like hurdles you have no idea what there is because your eyes are closed the whole time You say should I jump now or should I run fast now or should I pace myself now? Should I do some do I have to lift this thing? You have no idea and maybe you listen to the person and they tell you and then you try it But then the next obstacle comes and you haven't developed any skills to actually complete the course Do you got him saying so even if you make progress you don't even know what you did You don't even know which one worked. That's how I want you to see your training You need to start saying okay. I want to jump higher First figure out a number. How high do you want to jump for me? My ultimate goal is 46 right now 50 is like a dream dream beyond I could even comprehend a dream 46 is a minor dream is a smaller dream because that's where I would achieve all the goals that I set out from when I started my dunk journey 10 years ago, so But my next goal is 44 but the point is get super clear on where you want to go You have to jump higher right everything needs to be in tune your technique you need to be strong You need to be explosive you need to be healthy your tendons have to have to be pain-free You have to have good mechanics so you can lift and strengthen your body and the basics are always the same You're producing force. You need to jump higher. You need to push yourself harder But you need to understand what you're doing in these workouts if you go for a workout You just do the reps, but your intention is not there You're wasting your time and you got to stick to something So I guess the end of the day is build the awareness notice what you're doing and be consistent I think more than 50% of the people I talked to were noticed is that they've never really trained jumping Which is what's fun about dunking is that people are now now it's become a way bigger thing than when I started You can train to jump higher just like getting stronger just like endurance Speed people knew as well, but jumping was always that thing that felt like a freak gift or just something That was not for everybody But you can train it as well The difference is it's hard to measure jumping because there's so many variables when it comes to exploding your hardest Like if you slept well or different things like that strength is the easiest one So if I say if you wanted to lift 250 pounds bench press of 315 whatever it is right you can You can intuitively do that with almost no training. There's not much technique, but you could say okay I right now I'm at 200 you rep it out You try to push for 205 you try to push for 225 Maybe you say you know what some days I'm gonna do more reps You just try those different things and you're learning but your goal is so clear that it's easy to increase the weight Jumping is a lot less clear than that than that. You need strength. You need speed. You need to Push yourself you need to but there's all these different energy levels of like understanding your explosiveness So one day you could just be have all the potential in the world But you just don't have your central nervous system firing so you don't jump your highest that day point being build that awareness Stay disciplined on your journey start mapping out the the race start mapping out your journey meaning you're not trying to just make A plan commit to the purpose. I just read this or I heard sad guru who I'm a huge fan of his voice is amazing And he's got the most beautiful ways of putting these really large deep concept so I highly recommend him as well, but he said don't commit to a plan commit to your purpose and What I love about that is he was saying that your plan say you have a plan for your life You want to do these things if you're too attached to that plan You when things don't go exactly as planned you're gonna feel stressed You might feel anxiety But also if you're detached from your plan and you have a loose plan, but you're committed to your purpose You can always live your purpose and that plan can change and modify and you don't know what the future holds You don't know what you're gonna want to feel tomorrow. You don't know how your life is gonna change You know who you're gonna meet so that plan how could you make a plan for that future that has so many details? You can't because you just have there's so many unknowns and the flip side as well the four-point swing Not only is it hard to stick to that plan But you can also be open to the infinite possibilities of your plan changing so you can make the best decisions going forward And that's what you could bring to your training is you have a plan you want to jump higher That's the ultimate goal but commit to learning how to get there So every time you're looking at okay by the end of this year I want to jump this high you're starting to map it out if you're you get all the details But you have to take action at the same time so to finish the analogy is start the race start going down the race Wherever you are, maybe the first goal is to touch the rim Okay, I'm doing that where am I now you start mapping out how do I feel and I'll give you some tips I guess I should probably give you something to think about Map out your energy levels. That's what I'm big on. How are you sleeping? How are you eating? How does your body feel soreness pain-wise all those different things start tracking that every single day Then start tracking how much you're jumping what exercises you're trying how they make you feel and there's so many factors Your body has to learn and adapt to and you're gonna start to notice that and then as you do that now You're mapping out that piece as you did it So now the next level you go to you could look back and say okay This is what worked and you learned that whole time as you're making progress and then it's a it's never an up Straight up trajectory. It's always up and down and ups and downs of the journey, but there's a book called Principles by Ray Dalio and it just says it has a graph. That's just a spiral So it's always everything to go successful every part of success always goes down first You learn you map it out and then you could excel to the next level So you almost have to fail so you can learn so you can build the next steps And that's it don't tip frickin to say to if you don't get fueled up by that If you don't start attacking your goals, if you're not doing what you want in your life. I don't know what to tell you All right, so today was my first dunks after completing my strength phase I'm stronger than I've ever been as I mentioned in this vlog So I hope you guys enjoy the quick vlog at the end of this video. This is a mash-up video I have so much to say in every video So I'm just trying to make the most content possible I have a be the way video that I'm super excited for it's more of a spirituality type video So stay tuned for that but in this one stronger than ever hamstrings are so fired up and if not the best way They're there's painful so I'm in a little bit of a rehab mode right now But I have all this strength still jumping with ease So I'm excited to try to break through to that next level to show you how I got there. So let's go Yo PR is all this week squat deadlifts hip thrust Went hard as I can be Deload week so I did less reps so I'm a little more fresh But it's been a few weeks of heavy lifting so my body is taking a toll feeling amazing Except my hamstrings are super tight other than that super healthy to get mobile today It's just about max jumping again keeping it alive. I think I'm going to transition to more jumping now I'm only jumping once a week about 10 max jumps rather than that Your body has to adapt you got to think super long term Where do you want to be think about the craziest goal you can think of and work towards that? Don't just think about the next goal think about the biggest goal you can think about and how you can work towards that now Let's go first One way to tell about a shape is I'm sweating like this from a warm-up all I did I took one jump you saw the one jump I was just doing some little minor sprints and I'm drenched Very strong Guess who's more motivated now that's videos. I'm running full speed. This looks like me thought it was slow It's super powerful super on point So I got to make sure I hammer home that technique so I can continue to build on this because I want to go fast I want to explode and I want to jump my highest, but I can't access that potential yet. I'm spitting bars But normally I explode even harder, but I'm still hesitating. I've painted my hamstrings are super tight So I'm hesitating because I don't know if my body can handle it yet. I'm still getting there My body can't handle my body Meaning I got so much strength. I can't handle that speed yet. So I gotta tell my body to get ready for it Yo every single week Newer better videos is my goal for this channel Just make push the limits of my mind and my creativity and energy and just see how crazy I can make these videos so that's my goal I have coaching and programs and all these different things contact me reach out to me Thank you for supporting my art. I love you have the best day of all time right today right now