My Basketball Journey

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I started my journey in health and fitness at a young age. I was always one of those kids who just could not sit still - so I was into everything, climbing trees, riding bikes, swimming, sports, you name it I was into it.

However my discipline to this way of life came when I discovered basketball, it was when I was about 13/14 and shot up to practically the height I am now, so my teachers said why don't you try and develop your skills as a basketball player as I was taller than most of my teachers at 13 which lead them to think I'd grow to be some kind of 7 foot giant, but unfortunately that didn't happen, would've been cool though.

So I developed my skills as a Center and with that started training to develop my vertical leap so I could dominate in the air and took my leap from a 20 inch to 36 inch leap in just a year and started dunking on a regular and dominating on blocked shots, so from there I was hooked on personal goal setting. …show more content…
But this is what I did last week, next week it'll be different.

Some people criticise this method of training but I just tell 'em - it's not your training programme so don't worry about it.

Monday - BACK &

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