 Make sure the nips are in what's good everybody welcome back to dunk tip Tuesday. Let's get it And we're back in it what's good my name is Steve I'm five foot ten for the last ten years now, and I'm jumping higher And I'm gonna dunk on you and everybody watching so if you want to hit that subscribe button to make sure you get Dunked on that doesn't make any sense, but do it smash it subscribe it unsubscribe and do it again. What look okay look Hi welcome to my channel welcome to the dunk life welcome to the next part of the adventure that you call the human experience I want to talk today about dunking today's dunk tip Tuesday every Tuesday I do this I have a podcast with Mondays and Tuesdays so far that's kind of what I'm doing Mondays about motivation energy inspiration Get up get after it live quantum today's about dunking. That's what we're about today. Ask all your questions I have some questions from Instagram I have some questions for my last comments from my last video and if you want to check out my own vlog my own journey Check that out On my channel. I'm having fun with the YouTube shorts. There's so much fun They're an awesome way to just document quickly what I'm up to so I keep you guys up to date So ask any questions you have about me my physical being whatever you see right now is a reflection of you And if you have any questions about your own journey, whether you feel like you've got pains in your knees Are you got frigging mind warps? I can help with that. Let's try so today hmm welcome to my freaking studio and We're going to talk about The most I already forgot. I had it. You know, I go with the energy. This is what I do I know what it is and I already that we remembered it But I just wanted to tell you how I do this so you know, I go with the energy of now So that way you feel it because if you don't feel it, what are we doing? Okay? Listen today is the most overlooked thing I see recently and something that's really helped me right now with my journey and also it helps you Jump your highest the fastest you can so that way you're not wasting time. So let's get into it Quick story about me. I'm overcoming the hamstring injury really excited to jump higher than ever I recorded a 42.5 inch vertical. I got an email Two years ago at Dunkham Dunkhamson about four or five weeks. I'm super pumped I don't really expect myself to jump any higher, but I'm excited to see everybody. It's gonna be the most fun It's literally Disney Disneyland for dunkers, which I think Jay Clark said and I'm gonna be dancing I'm gonna be freaking making videos. I'm gonna be making people laugh I'm gonna be smacking people with love. No, I'm just kidding I don't know what I'm talking about. I'll just get that excited and I hope you guys are there If not tune in to my I'll be posting a lot about it Maybe taking photos and I just hope to see you guys there one year because it's just the greatest thing I'll be there every year until I die. Okay, that's how we're gonna do it And I'm really on the journey right now to jump my highest ever and I'm not on that journey I'm saying I really see the potential about to happen I had a little up and down every obstacle I've had it gets harder than the next But I'm really pumped started yoga again notice how I'm shredded notice why this shirt is maybe not even a shirt That's one thing I wanted to point out before I get into it leave a comment if you think this is a shirt or not I don't know what it is, but I don't even know if I can wear it in public So I'm putting on a video first to get comfortable in it. We're gonna go pump chest after this. I already did yoga. We're gonna get into it Okay, so The most overlooked thing I see recently and in general and something that was the biggest mistake for me was not Tracking your progress. So what I mean by that is there's so many factors that go into tracking your training in general That if you're not doing it, how are you making progress now? Think of that for anything you're doing if you're not tracking How are you making progress if you're trying to gain weight or lose weight but not looking at the scale? How are you doing that now when it comes to dunking a lot of us already are tracking without even knowing it just naturally We're trying to grab the rim for the first time. We're trying to hang for the first time We're trying to yam for the first time We're trying to dunk on somebody's freaking neck for the first time when you do that It's hard to forget it so you know where you're at But if you're not doing that or once you grab the rim or once you don't or if you if you can't touch the rim yet It's hard to gauge that progress. So Track everything so I'm gonna go over a few things I want you to track and then some of the most important things and some of the ways that I track and think about tracking So one of the first most important ones if you a fan of mine, you already know this it's sleep So track your sleep simply simply try to be consistent. That's a really big routine Anything you hear me say by the way if you want me to dive deeper in it leave a question I'd be happy to dive deeper into it and also search you to I probably have talked about it already Sleep seven to eight hours a night Consistent with that you're going to recover faster and you're also going to be able to train harder because your energy is full So that is one of the biggest ways to track your progress because when I train people when I coach people the only That I start with everything is how did you sleep last night because if you're gonna train? Today and try to push your hardest and you didn't sleep all last night. It's just not gonna be there You're not going to be able to push through that Stimulus that you need to get to that other side not the other side of death, but you'd mean like the other side of progress the other the Push past your potential. So sleep. I'm just gonna run through these quick Second is nutrition tracking what you eat. Do I track my calories? I get that question a lot I used to and why I say used to is because I did it for such a long time that I understood exactly what my body liked In order for it to repair in order for it to have high energy and perform at a high level the next day and also to be Shredded and I like to be shredded because it makes me jump my best. I feel like it There's no efficiency It could be completely placebo effect and I'm cool with that if there's less Body fat in your body it just makes sense that you're gonna be able to explode and perform at a higher level and Just understanding how much you're eating if you're eating too much too little How much you're eating in a healthy way and you're feeling those high energy days? That's what you want. So sleep and nutrition are huge and the last one is energy. It's your body awareness It's understanding how you feel on a given day and that's how I train I train day to day And the reason for that is because for example today is Tuesday. It's freaking As you guys know what the fuck so if I wanted to dunk on Saturday And I say you know what I'm gonna have my dunk day on Saturday So much could happen between Tuesday and Saturday that I just don't I Can't plan for and things may occur that I want to do in life For example, my friends come into town or somebody and I go to the beach and I run on the beach And it's blazing hot and I was sprinting playing catch whatever swimming forever That's not part of the training, but if we're being an elite dunker, we won't we'll skip out on that day That's hardcore if you want to live dunk life you say Fuck you. I'm not going to the beach I got a dunk on Saturday you can be like that, but I like to live my life with a little more Flexibility be and I say that because I was like that I was saying no to everything and I still do a lot of the times for my peace and my sanity because I'm addicted to health But the point is I enjoy those things too. So by not staying so strict to a dunk day on Saturday It lets me one enjoy life, but two Use all those factors that happen throughout your day in a normal day-to-day life as a human Play into your training and so here's one thing I want I had a thought of the other day when I talk about capturing the energy This is a thought I had is this a shirt or not and my nips are showing. I don't know This thought was a really good way of putting what it feels like to dunk So I dunked yesterday and I was not even planning it. I was planning on maybe going to the gym I was like maybe today's my full rest day I haven't had a full rest day where I don't even do active recovery in a really long time I woke up like I wanted to run through a wall and I say that because when you have a day like that Every workout every time you're trying to get stronger you're trying to get faster You're trying to burn through something you're trying to push yourself in a workout That's what a workout is. You're trying to push yourself to a new level You need the energy to run through a wall or when you have that energy It makes it easier and for example dunking requires maxed out of that nests. What it requires that feeling to be maxed out And what I mean by that is you're trying when I'm trying to jump higher than ever when I'm trying to increase my vertical I need to jump at maximum capacity when I wake up and I feel that in my body my Metabolism is moving my all my joints feel good. They want they feel like running through a wall That's the only way I could explain it compared to other days where I feel like I don't my body wants to just curl up I don't even want to walk. I don't even want to do anything I don't want to some days one time I was I dunked so much today before and my body was so fatigued and I went to play catch with my friend playing Football and even catching the ball. I was like, I don't even want to catch anything wanted to hit my body My body felt fragile. I don't like that feeling I don't know if you do but I don't and I also love on the flip side of that How much I don't like that is how much I like the day I want to run through a wall So on some days, you're not gonna have that run through a wall feeling But you're still gonna be able to muster up enough energy to run through that wall Which are the days where maybe you put in the work and you need to do active recovery You need to stretch and you need to really push the range of motion and work on your core and work on ankle mobility or things that take energy and Aka running through a wall pushing yourself past your limit But you didn't wake up with that fire and that's okay, too But the point is I like to wake up on those days If I feel like running through a wall is to go run through that freakin wall because that those are the days that are the most fun Those are the days where I can make the most progress. I have so much energy to do the most for example I jumped a lot. I dunked a lot. I smashed a few dunks You could I'll put them here maybe or you see them in the last vlog and then after that I did my Rd I was like I had so much energy to do it It was easy to push myself and I want more of those days So if I'm tracking that another good example if I started yoga again I just love the way it makes my body feel feels like it gets blood into every nook and cranny It's a very spiritual component as well so much breathing. It's just fantastic It feels like a great way for me to push myself to stretch which I really need to recover and To just keep my body healthy and I have this silly fear that if I do this yoga I'm not gonna be able to dunk train. I'm not gonna have energy It's gonna drain me and it's gonna I'm gonna sweat too much because it's hot yoga and that I'm gonna use my legs Too much that they're gonna be tired. It's BS and so I did that on Sunday and I dunked on Monday And I felt amazing so now that I tracked that I can and I knew that from the last months I did it which was earlier this year. I had that same fear for the first time in my life I'm like, you know what? I'm not gonna let this fear not let me do yoga because I know how good it is for me in general And I'm talking full life Increasing my life expectancy connecting me with the higher power and living more quantum I was like, you know what if I need to get more flexible yoga is the thing to do it Why am I not doing it? I did it and then I dunked fantastic like the day after so that shattered that silly belief that I had That yoga would really hold me back or interrupt my training. So now I have that data. Okay So now why does that help you? Train your your vertical to increase the fastest because even if you're moving slowly and you're doing one tiny detail at a time And you're tracking that and you slept good and you ate good and then you moved a little less Because you were covering you realize you can't push through the wall today Whatever it is, you're moving in an upward trajectory at all times instead of trying something coming back to square one Trying something coming back to square one trying another thing trying another thing coming back to square one over train not That is just going in circles going nowhere So if you're able to avoid these pitfalls and also track then as you're building this data There's a tipping point because you're building this foundation you have small progress But in turn at some point you're up here, and I'm raising my hand slowly and when your foundation is super high Now you can do so much in one day like I did yoga I might hit upper body after this just if you freaking yoked and just I just like doing chess And I think upper body is good for my jumping style and I just want to get that pump as well Do some shoulders do some upper back also do some shoulder rehab as well because it keeps my shoulders healthy Because when I don't sometimes I get a little bit of an impingement It's just it's just the thing that happens because I smashed the rim so much So I do some rehab in my upper body just feels amazing. So I can do all of that in one day I can yell on this podcast for 12 minutes already like nothing, right? So if you want to do that you need a lot of energy to do that And if you're tracking all these different things you can reverse engineer and hack your life so you can have more energy than ever Okay, so now let's get into the questions. Thank you for listening. Why did my light turn off 5 7 Joe Ajaj 5 7 13 years old with a 30-inch vert is that good? That's fantastic I think anyone can start anywhere and you can make a lot of new beginnings So just that's a fantastic way to start. I didn't even start training till I was 18. So that gives you that How do I lower the risk of getting ankle sprains? I might make a whole video on ankle strength because I really made my ankles frickin amazing But try isometric holds where you just feel it burning in your in the top of your I'm using my hand as an example But just stand on your foot on one leg and hold it for a while until it burns It's a great way to strengthen the ankles and then also mobility. So move it in all different directions and stretch it I'm thinking about changing from one foot to two feet jumped I'm thinking about changing from one foot to two foot jumping any tips 1k suave says I would say continue to do both work on one foot Even you're off foot if I if you're a left foot jump or jump off your right foot and with two foot Just start small start with two steps and work it up to a full approach But do both one foot and two foot is fantastic I would say stay versatile because if you're a pro dunker you're trying to be a pro dunker You want to be versatile that way But if you're playing basketball, which a lot of you are you want to be able to jump off all plants Should I practice on a lowered rim the official Zach clay? 100% I think you should definitely Practice on a low rim think it's great for your timing. I just think you should always have a focus So if you're trying to increase your vert that's your focus and on other days may find a way to Find a way to add in a little low-rim practice to get the technique down to get the muscle memory down There's a lot of benefits for that practice different dunks How to stay active during an injury to not lose bounce So one thing you can do is you might not lose bounce, but just know that that bounces unless you're injured for five years I mean you're not gonna lose the bounce you are gonna be rusty It's gonna take a while, but you're you're gonna have the bounce come right back So it's like riding a bike dude, but what you can do is you can stretch you can keep your diet super lean You can be extra Recovery with your sleep all those things I talked about in today's episode, but you could also just Slowly come back from it. So just be patient with the injury depends what it is, but don't worry about it too much I would say just keep working out whatever you can do health wise keep your metabolism moving try to sweat every day Just keep your body active and if you could stay active and not Prolong the injury. I think you're in a really good place Standing vertical technique so one thing with standing vertical that I've noticed is you got to come a little lower Because a lot of times when you're running full speed you barely lower and you just pop off the ground So try coming a little lower try to stick your butt out Try to engage your glutes and your hamstrings a lot of times I want to jump off my toes is just from my experience So try to sit back in your butt and take off that way So I'm gonna answer the last one for my boy Brandon How do I squeeze some last-minute inches out before my of my bird before dunk camp? So right now I would say probably Whatever training you've been doing. I would say just start jumping Just get really really comfortable jumping and then rest like a full friggin week before a dunk camp You're not gonna lose any of that bounce. Just stay in shape. Don't worry about Jumping higher. Just worry about being as fresh as you possibly can because you're gonna be jumping a ton At dunk camp and you won't be unfresh. There's no way you're gonna be rusty and even the week's time So I'd say just jump your highest drop all the weights Maybe do light weights fast. It depends what your training has been But whatever your training has been just taper off of it a little bit I would just taper off it a little bit and then a week before maybe just jump once or twice Get super fresh your goals should be so fresh that the energy is Blowing out of your friggin skull so that way you can have so much fun at dunk camp and jump jump a ton So that's it stay super lean have fun, and that's it. Thank you for watching frickin Great day today. 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