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by Aj
(Germany)

I`m 17 years old now and just start playin´ basketball with 15 after I found out that I need to become an athlet after i first touch a ball i knew thats my thing ...

in that age i´ve juz thinkin of dunk the ball but i couldn´t instead of my 270 pounds and 6 feet ... i start to lift weights make dashes , run , play alot more ball 4 months later i just weight 180 pounds .. but just could grab the rim before even couldn´t touch the net ... i grew bout 1 inch ... then i start doin´ Air Alert 2 after the second rest period i broke up cuz my knees hurt ...

i don´t give aa2 the fault more my weight the couple years ago ..but thats doesn´t matter the best thing was it hurts but i was able to dunk on a 10 feet rim this process cost just 7 months of being a fat guy to someone who dunks it ... after stop doin´aa2 i just makes a lot of dashes and weight lifting instead i injuried heavy ...

now after i recovers i start doing aa2 again but know with jumpsoles i´d probably bad for my knees if i wouldn´t be a 190 2% bodyfat athlet but i am ... and i just could say it works ... at a 6 1 1/2 guy dunking millin n double up power hawks i´m glad of my process ... it kind off painfull but also good to me

VerticalJumping.com Response: Hi AJ, I have absolutely no idea what you have just said here. I think you were saying you did Air Alert but injured yourself (no surprises there), but you were also overweight?? Now that you have lost weight you can dunk.

If I have deciphered this correctly then I congratulate you on your achievement. Brilliant stuff.

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Aug 17, 2009
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ITS CHANGED
by: TAYLOR

THEY CHANGED AIR ALERT ON THE NEXT VERSION THERES NOT SO MUCH VLOUME

Jun 08, 2009
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Don't do AA
by: Chudy

Hey dude, I think I kind of catch your drift. I wouldn't do air alert at all though. I did AA3 last year, all 15 weeks, and saw almost no gains after week 8.

After reading a lot of different articles and books on jumping I figure the program isn't worth the effort for a couple of reasons:

The volume is way too much (500 burnoutsx4 last week? why?) without enough emphasis on resistance / weights. This ends up working your TYPE 1 fiber muscles, your endurance, instead of TYPE 2a/2b, your max strength / fast twitch muscles.

There's not enough recovery time in between jumping days (Both physical and neurological). Because of the lack of recovery time, especially if you're active in sports beyond the program, you will most likely end up overtraining and might even see your vert go down instead of up.

I don't know too much about injuries, but lots of people that do air alert complain about them. It might have something to do with the volume. I suffered from knee problems while doing the program, and another one of my friends still has something wrong with his achilles tendon half a year later.

In short: lifting weights properly will rather always give you superior results to air alert.