One of PLD 90-day goals is to dunk a basketball. I only recently (in the last 2 weeks) got really serious about training and increasing my vertical leap. I had done some initial research on how to exercise around that yet I’m probably only doing a portion of it.
Yesterday, I think I may have strained my ham string a bit. Early this morning, I was out for another hard workout on the court and it felt tight. The first real jump I did flared up my muscle again and I could tell that pushing it further was going to really injure it or damage the muscle. So, I took it easy this morning.
I’m a bit disappointed, though… I haven’t really experienced very many injuries over the years. I guess it’s a sign that I was really pushing myself hard. Could I have listened to my body more effectively and known that something like this was going to happen? Probably. Though, it happened when I was totally warm and about 2/3 of the way through the workout.
Either way, it’s not so serious. Just a couple days off it and some icing should take care of it. We’re heading into second weekend for PLD and I was shooting for being at least 40% done with this goal. To me, touching the rim would get me halfway there, even though I don’t know if it’s a linear trajectory to get enough of a vertical leap so I have enough of my hand above the rim to dunk…
Either way, I’ll call it that I’m about 30% of the way there. About 1 1/2″ increase in my vertical leap that I measured about 35 days ago. Once I’m at full-speed with my legs next week I’m going to get serious about doing real vertical leap increase exercises.