Starting Over

Here's how my jump looks right now. I'm not really bending my legs and I'm not really exploding through my jumps. It looks like I'm holding back on my 2-foot approach jumps. As my form gets better, I should be able to jump higher. In this video, I also included some depth jumps training. The platform that I'm jumping to is 38" without the pads and 40" with the pads.

I tested my one-rep max on various lifts this week. My PR's for the week were:

• Squats: 340 pound x 1 rep. I definitely go below parallel and get a lot lower than I did when I maxed out earlier in the year. I think I could have done 2-3 more, but 1 is what I got.
• Bench Press: 245 pounds. I was close to getting 275 last winter.
• Hang Power Cleans: 195 pounds x 1 rep. I barely got that rep, too.
• Deadlift: 340 pounds x 3 reps. I performed these immediately after maxing out on the squat.

I played basketball 4 times this week and my legs were feeling pretty good up until today. I definitely need some rest right now. 

We've played 2 games in my city rec league and won them both. We have a decent team, but we are older than a lot of the other teams. We tend to walk the ball up the court, pass it around 7-8 times, and then make a shot. By that time, the other team hasn't had the ball in a while and will put up a quick shot that we'll rebound. We'll then walk the ball up the court, pass it around 7-8 times, and then make a shot. We'll keep doing that over and over until the other team gets so frustrated that they start turning the ball over and taking terrible shots. By the end of the first half, we're running up and down the court and scoring almost at will on some of these young teams.