Road to 50"

It's official, I am now on the road to a 50 inch vertical. My knees still aren't fully healed, but I'm at a point where training for vertical jumping and getting my knees healthy isn't a mutually exclusive thing. I hit the gym last night, and part of my workout was to squat. This was was my first time squatting with any weight on the bar. I was supposed to go for a heavy load on this exercise, and the weight that ended up feeling appropriate was 110 pounds. That's good and bad for two reasons.

Bad reason first: 110 pounds is a joke! That's like 100 pounds under my max bench press. The squat is supposed to be the exercise where you use the most weight, and 110 pounds simply doesn't cut it.

So true...

The good part: I wasn't too upset that the weight was low. I actually thought it was good news because that means that my vertical is already high despite the fact that my strength is low. I think I have above average strength for someone my size, and I know my leg strength is going to catch up eventually. So as the weight that I can squat goes up, I'm sure the inches I can jump will too.