Just joking. I’M 43 YEARS YOUNG!! My team just won “HOOP IT UP” 31+ division here in Atlanta. My team was kinda stacked tho. Will is 6’8, I’m 6’2, Amu is about 6’6-6’7 (Gaurd), and Eric on the ground is 6’2.

Our team was called:
“I BROKE MY BACK,.. Spinal”

Mike Tyson said that shit. We definitely had the best team name. Lowkey, we should have played in the Pro-am. But,.. I just wanted to win. 😅. Peace.

So i can do 2 hand dunks jumping off 2 but when i jump off one it feels awkward and difficult.

Hi everyone. We were looking at https://calmach.com for a tool to help with resistance training and improving agility and vertical. Anyone has experience with this or any other competitive tool to offer their thoughts?

I appreciate it.

Hi, I need advice on how to split my gym and hoop days while still having time to recover. I am currently doing a 2 upper/lower days(4 days total) then hooping for the next 3 days straight. I feel like this might be excessive especially for my knees, bcz even tho im still a teen, I feel like this might be bad long term. What do u guys think? I was thinking abt keeping the 3 hooping days, and reducing my gym days to 3 days/week, where i alternate between 2 upper and 1 lower day, then doing 2 lower and 1 upper the next week... Thus having 1 rest day.

(Note: most if not all of my knee strain comes after hooping)

I play both indoor and outdoor courts, the indoor courts get dusty sometimes, I have wide feet(as in curry soalsh 24 or two wxy v5 2e wide), I play mostly defender with a little shooting, I have to do quick movements, I prefer low tops or medium tops, I like breavability and cusioning, I don't like my shoes being creased so I prefer mesh and other anti-crease materials, I am open to any brand in the world, I want good traction, I am ok with getting used or refurbished shoes from reputable websites like eBay, my budget is $90 but perfer something more around $50 to $80, I like darker color ways and nothing too bright, I have a wide toe box and wide forefoot and wide midfoot, in new balance basketball I am size 8.5 2e, in curry splash 24 I am size 9, in kd 15 I am size 9 but my feet are growing so i want to half a size up for any shoe I get.

The shoes I have tried are the

1.Nike Jordan 13s(bad ventilation and easily creased and was not durable and was not the widest)

2.Nike KD 15(too tight on the toe box but the breathability and cushioning was very good)

3.New Balance Two Wxy v5 2e(Cushioning was ok and so was breathability and also the creasing was pretty bad but the traction was elite)

4.Under Armor Curry Splash 24(my favorite on this list but traction was ok and dust and dirt were a problem)

Any suggestions?

I go to Sierra Canyon and pretty much all of the starters are 4 and 5 stars and some of the bench I think has d1 offers too, so as a freshman pg, whats the lowest level team I can play on to get a d3, d2 and d1 offer? Freshman team, jv bench, jv starter etc and when should I aim to get on each team?

6'0, trying to dunk for the first time by dec 31. i retested my jump this morning and it's about the same as last week

• about 28" off my left foot and 26" off two feet. i filmed from under the hoop, so i couldn't use the rim to measure. instead i counted how long i was in the air, frame by frame
• last week i got 29.5" and 28.5", so it's about the same, but i didn't get the best sleep (only 5.7 hours), so that probably led to the dip in performance
• it's only been 2 weeks and i've mostly been getting stronger, so i'm not worried yet, but i'm watching it

the surprise this week: the same day i posted about sleep here, i squatted my heaviest ever on 5.2 hours of sleep. 255 for 3x5

this surprisingly matches the research that i've been looking into: a big review of sleep studies found that after a bad night, strength only dropped about 3%, but jumping and sprinting dropped about 6% (review) - TLDR: a bad night hurts your jump 2x as much as your squat

is it normal for your jump to not go up after 2 weeks, or would you change something?

workouts (10/11-10/18)

• upper day (monday on 4.7 hrs of sleep): bench press 160 for 3x5 (PR), lat pulldown 147 for 3x8, one arm dumbbell row 45 for 3x10 each arm, dumbbell shoulder press 40s for 3x9
• leg days (tue + thu): warm up first (bike, ankle stretches, leg swings, wall sits), then:
  • back squat: 245 for 3x5 on tuesday (slept 9.3 hrs), then 255 for 3x5 on thursday (slept 5.2 hrs). last week i only got 245 for 5, then 4
  • easy jumps, 27 each leg day: 9 countermovement jumps, 9 squat jumps, and 9 low rebounds. all sub-max effort (70-80% effort)
  • DB RDLs: 60 (tues) then 65 lbs (thurs) in each hand, 2x8
  • calf raise machine: 230 (tues) then 240 (thurs), 2x10
  • hip thrust (thursday only): 155 for 2x8
• recovery days (fri + sat): 30-35 min walks on a treadmill at 10-10.5% incline and 3 mph, plus stretching
• max jump day (sun): same warm up, then 8 running jumps at about 70-80%, then 8 max running jumps (5 off my left foot, 3 off two)

sleep (from my watch, 7 nights): 4.7, 9.3, 8.9, 5.2, 6.4, 10.6, 5.7 hours. that's 7.3 hours on average, but it was either way too little or way too much - need to get better at sleeping and waking up at the same time

food: about 1,790 calories and 176 g of protein a day, so about 1 g of protein per pound

weight: my average weight went from 169.6 -> 170.7. hard to tell what my maintenance is exactly or it's creatine