strengthen your knees. backwards sled.
strengthen your knees. backwards sled.
In addition to playing basketball regularly and doing the box jumps, plyometrics, weights, and jumping rope, once a week or so you probably need to just jump—see how high you get, then hopefully get higher the next week (do this when you are already warmed up—after games, for example). Jumping straight up is different than box jumps, skipping, et cetera, but that is what you’ll need to do (only kids can suddenly jump higher without being deliberate about it). Good luck!
This guy (Ben Patrick) is obsessed with dunking and joint health. His stuff has helped me add inches of jump in my 60s.
Slow Bro wrote:
What's up LRC? I'm a masters runner with OK-ish hobby jogger PRs, but in my old age have decided to sprinkle some recreational basketball back into the mix.
Brief history:
High school PRs
800: 2:07
5k XC: 16:50
Adult PRs
Mile: 5:27
5k: 18:48
Half: 1:28
Full: 3:12I'm 6'1" and when I was in my 20s, when I played a lot of basketball, I was able to dunk. Just barely - I needed to be fresh and have a ball that I could palm with my right hand - most high-quality real leather balls were OK. At the time, I didn't really do any specific jump training or running. But just through pickup and game fitness (pickup games maybe 2x week and one league game per week) I had enough vertical. I'd like to think I wasn't really close to my potential.
I'd...kind of like to get back some of that leap and maybe even dunk again. But I've been doing more marathon-focused training for the past 10 years or so. Although I'm pretty fit by most standards for a 45 year old, my vertical leap has taken a hit on this training. I would estimate that I'm currently about 3-4 inches below even touching the rim.
So far, I'm adding back in regular basketball pickup games, some jump rope sessions, and some leg press. I have some neck/shoulder issues that make squatting painful, otherwise I would be doing squat instead of the leg press.
Is there anything I should be doing in addition to those? Or is there a more focused way I should approach this? Will it be possible?
Plan on doing a high jump?
I don’t know much about getting high but I assume you just smoke some weed and then go jump.