Week 45.1

I started with Kelly's tailored workout. It's still a combo of plyos, like depth drops and depth jumps. The major difference is I'm doing many various forms of lunges. I happen to be very weak at lunges.

I asked Kelly about the fact that I'm doing zero squats now. He said the current workouts should really help me in squats once we return to that part of training.

I'll try to have a new video up in a couple of weeks, once I don't look so amateur while doing the lunges.
Note: Kelly warned me my jump could decrease for these first few weeks. Should make some for some great footage.

Week 44.1

I AM NOT ALONE
Got a note from Mike Teverbaugh, who is also keeping a blog about his dunk quest, and he's 50! He's training with Gil Thomas, a dunk training guru out here in LA. I'm of course going with Kelly Baggett, who lives in Missouri - go figure. I'm only a week into it with Kelly, b/c of my injuries and illnesses.

It's still hard not to get frustrated due to my 8 months of stagnation. I really want to see improvement!

This week felt only OK. Kelly has me doing really basic stuff, to gauge where I'm at. But it hardly pushes me, and I told him so. So hopefully he'll get me working hard from here out. One thing he's told me is I need to lose a lot of weight. I agree. He had me take a test here, and it said I was "overweight, moderate risk"!!! Gimme a freakin break. I could lose a few pounds, but I don't need to go on Richard Simmons!

Let's DO THIS!!!

Week 43.1

I'm back in my new "first week" with Kelly Baggett advising me.

Always one to complicate things, I've been replacing a few posts of my neighbor/tenant's fence. No easy task, as I had to take down the fence and dig out the old posts, 3 feet down, to pull out the cement blocks. The sprinkler line literally touched the cement blocks, so digging became an adventure. Naturally, I did a lot of bending and squatting, and my legs are really sore now, certainly not something Kelly would advise.

For my first couple weeks with Kelly, he just wants to have me do some explosive plyo training, to gauge where I'm at. Then the real workouts should begin, and this blog might get interesting.

Of course, at that time, I'll get hurt and land a time consuming sleepless music video and have to suspend my workouts....

...Until then, viva verticalogy!!!

Week 42.1

Food Poisoning
Sunday night, I had a hotdog at Commerce Casino. Monday afternoon, I had a Subway Sandwich (cold cut trio with southwest sauce). But all I know is I felt funky Sunday night, and my workout Monday morning was poor. By Monday late afternoon, I wasn't feeling right. By dinner time, I was making many bathroom visits. This continued into Tuesday.

Then Wednesday night, I thought I was clear and had spaghetti. Thursday, I was back to the bathroom. My whole week was basically lost.

I did a little jog Friday and resumed my plyo's today on Saturday.

So since I hired Kelly Baggett as a trainer, I've hurt my foot and gotten food poisoning, thus wasting the first 2 weeks.

And my vert today, after hardly eating all week with food poisoning, was the same as it's ever been. So I'm more confused.

Week 41.2

Hooker Trannies
Darndest thing happened this morning at 6am. I awoke to my dogs barking and the sound of a woman screaming. My wife usually gets up around 5:30am to jog and go to work.

As soon as I became coherent, I threw off the covers and raced for the front door. In my head, I was worried that my wife had just been attacked, or was being attacked. So I didn't just explode out of the door, but opened it carefully for cover. Standing there was a tall black woman screaming.

I should point out that while I live on a beautiful tree-lined street in Hollywood, I also live a couple blocks south of tranvestite hooker central. She seemed like a woman, but my intuition was saying "man". He/She screamed "I've been robbed" as an SUV tore away. "He stole my phone!". I was thinking, that's it? You just woke me up for a phone? I'm standing in front of a strange He/She in my underwear?

I got my celly and called 9-1-1. They asked to speak to He/She. I looked down at my foot and noticed a huge golf ball size knot had swollen up. When I jumped off the bed, I slipped and my foot smashed into the bed and adrenaline kept me from noticing. I got an inch and a half laceration on my foot that was already turning blue. Damn that Tranny!

But I was happy my wife was OK (she was in the bathroom). She dressed the wound, and I tried to sleep an hour before my workout. Amazingly, because the knot was on the middle outside of my foot, it doesn't hurt that much and I could do my workout! It hurts more now, but I hope it's fine come Monday.

Week 41.1

THE FINAL CHAPTER BEGINS
Well, with a final push from Adam, one of my internet supporters, I contacted theVertical Jump Bible guru: Kelly Baggett . I've hired him to cater a specific workout for me. I've plateaued for about 6 months now, and i'm sick of it. So it's now or never. I had done Kelly's 12 week "novice" training program 2 times already, so this is it!

Allow me to summarize my quest thus far:
1. Mickey, "the black guy", is really just my friend. He's not really my trainer. Don't blame him for my lack of ability. Yes, he can dunk.
2. In highschool, i got rim just above my wrist. If i had better mechanics, I'd probably already have dunked and I wouldn't be here. I thought I could get my high school vert back in a few months....I was wrong.
3. My dunk quest summary: first couple of months i got in shape. I actually got rim on the palm of my hand. Then I started various workouts including the VJB. My vert fluctuated between tip of my fingers to my palm. I never got higher than my 2nd month, which is highly frustrating.
4. To all you haters, I'm doing my best. The ability to dunk is not something everyone can do, or something gained in 5 months. Shut your pieholes.

I'm gonna find out from Kelly how much I can show of my workouts. Since he might consider it proprietary, I may not be much...