The Zinni Factor

Hey guys, the follow events happened about 2 weeks ago but because of the slackness from the nerds (love your work Aidan & Matty) I couldn't really put anything up until now. Hopefully their slowly but surely attitude will be the same for me and it'll end with me dunking.

Anyway, the Zinni Factor. Our good friend Zinni is a personal trainer. He graciously took some time out of a couple of days to set me up with a training program and sort my diet out. The first day we caught up with Zinni he did the typical stuff that happens when you join the gym. Height, weight, body fat %, blood pressure, you get the idea. Paul had a good laugh at this, I was pretty much average or below average in every test he took. Exceedingly high was my blood pressure. I blame the Ultimate Whopper for that. He basically said for any chance of success I need to cut out anything negative in my diet. That means bye to sugar, fat and wost of all alcohol!

The following day I showed up to the gym ready to do some working out. Paul gave me a training program and then took me through some plyometric training. What happens with plyometric training for anyone that hasn't done it before or seen it done is you jump around on boxes and look like an idiot. Then you add into this the personal trainer telling you to do it faster or with better technique. It's great fun and I woke up the next day feeling mighty sore... By sore I mean I couldn't move. So now I'm in for a few months of weights and jumping on boxes and plenty of soreness with no alcohol to wash away the pain.

My vertical leap stands at 22". This is a true vertical leap (Straight up jumping with no run up or steps before jumping at all). For me to have a chance I should expect this to get over 30".