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Clink88 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-25-2008, 12:52 AM

Yo boys (and ladies on the forum), ive been looking to increase my vert for a long time, and have been trying out different things such as pylos/bodyweight program quite a while back, but i didnt see many gains, due to injury and other reasons. Now im back, motivated, and ready to start lifting weights, something i didnt do back when i first became interested in vert training.

I have gotten a gym membership (finally) today, and im goin to start training next week. Im going to be doing the vjb novice weights, then consider halfway through introducing the begginner/intermediate pylos as said in the vjb. At the moment, i play basketball on saturdays, and would like to be pretti fresh for it, and im currently in season at moment, so im thinking a monday & thursday as lifting days as a good times for me to do my weight sessions(If anyone has a better idea for this feel free to shout out).

I have never had experience doing any of the lifts associated with vert, and also i have some injuries that may hinder my development and program such as a shoulder problem were my shoulder pops in and out both ways due to the make up of my shoulder, and an ankle injury that seems fine at the moment but stems way back. One question i would like to ask is how do u know u are up to ur working weight for example with squats, without the assistantce of someone else... I dont really want to build up and drop the bar on me or someone else. I guess its somethin i will learn soon anyways

Ok so im gonna go test me jump later, and give u guys some indication on how i start, although i played today n wont be fresh. Honestly, my legs nearly never ever feel fresh tho, so it may be difficult to test gains now and in the future. Ill do my best

Any help from anyone, or comments is appreciated.

Clink88

Clink88 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-25-2008, 01:34 AM

For anyone who cares,
My Reach, standing vert and running vert are in my signature.

My Height is about 5ft 11.5 inch im just a tiny bit under 6 foot
My Reach recoreded at 7ft 8 inch
Starting Standing Jump was difficult to assess as every jump was different, its really around the 20"-21" inch mark
Starting Running one foot Jump as i have no one to help my i have based my jump on running at the rim, im about 1 inche off so about 27" inches.
Ill test my two footed running another time.

Ill start posting more when i start trainining

Siro · #3 (**permalink**) 10-25-2008, 07:21 AM

Goodluck with your training, i hope you get some mad gains. Looking forward to see how it goes =p

Clink88 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-27-2008, 04:50 AM

Hi guys, jus did my first training session, week one workout a.
It went pretty well, it was kinda a get to know the gym session for me, started off with a bit light cardio work on treadmill then got stuck in.

Started on the squat rack, with 3 warmup sets of about 8-10 like vjb advises you too until i got to the weight of 60 kilos of weight on the bar, bar weighed bout 10 kilos id say, so i was squatting about 70 kilos/154 pounds. I dont know how high to my max i could go, but i didnt want to go more then this on my first session, cause i had noone spotting me and didnt want to hurt myself. This weight on the bar felt like it was close to my max anyways, and i managed to complete 10 reps on the first set, 6 on the second cause it felt like i was bout to drop it, and 9 on the final set. It felt like i worked hard on them, but hopefully next week i can increase my squat by about 10 kilos, and do all my reps in 10s. I shood be able to cause i trained today with a bit of a sore muscle in my back, and i wasnt exactly as fresh as ideally i could be.

Also did all of my leg curls, and calf raisers. They went well, and at the end of the workout it felt like i worked out, and my legs were hurtin a bit. its abour 6 hours since then now and i feel good though.

All in all i lookforward to the next session.
Do u guys reckon i do it on wednesday or go by vjb and do it thursday, to keep fresh for sat basketball?

Clink88

diiimn · #5 (**permalink**) 10-28-2008, 05:34 PM

I done ur program & there probably have not much difference if it's Wed or Thu

Clink88 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-28-2008, 08:42 PM

Yeh i didnt think so thanks man. Im still kinda sore tho haha and its nearly been exactly 48 hours since i went gym last hahahha

Quickly when doing lunges do i use the max weight i can possible use or what? It doesnt really say in vjb?

diiimn · #7 (**permalink**) 10-28-2008, 11:39 PM

That's easy. Just use the weight u can lunge with comfortably without toppling over and dropping everything and slamming it to the floor which possibly around 30-45kg, possibly lower than ur squat weight.

Clink88 · #8 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 04:18 AM

Hey guys just did my phase 1 week 1 workout b.
Deadlifted 65 kilos or there about
and did my lunges with 40 kilos of weight on the bar

Went ok as a trianing session. Im sure im not deadlifitng with correct form, so im going to hav to work on that. Also i had a bit of problem with my grip slipping, cause my pinky is kinda injured n it was slipping out of my right hand because of that. Any suggestions??
Thanks guys

diiimn · #9 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 08:11 PM

So if u're having callus from deadlift, hold the bar where it wants to go not where it's in the middle of the hand. The place is near the fingers. This is known as the proper form in the grip, probably.

Clink88 · #10 (**permalink**) 10-30-2008, 05:39 AM

Thanks man appreciate it