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Day 1 – Training
Vertical Leap Beyond Belief The 50-Inch Blueprint: Day 1
With Luke Lowrey
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The “Vertical Leap Beyond Belief” MasterClass Seminar Series was
conducted in August, 2006 by “The World’s Undisputed #1 Vertical Leap
Expert”, Luke Lowrey… and for the very first time in history, outlined the
“50-Inch Blueprint”. Herein lies the Transcript User Manual from that
groundbreaking week in athletic performance enhancement history.
Luke Lowrey is the acclaimed founder of TheVerticalProject.com and the
creator of the world-famous Double Your Vertical Leap software system.
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MasterClass – Training Syllabus: Day 1
"Welcome, this is Luke Lowrey; creator of TheVerticalProject.com… and we are nearly
ready to go I think. We are nearly ready to go. I need you to have those things out. I need that
pen and paper, to take your own notes and you will be sitting at the computer with the Double
Your Vertical Leap system up and running, and I want you to have Mandate 2 ready. It seems as
though the sign-ins have subsided for a little bit, so I’ll get kicking off here.
Just about taking your own notes; I want you to take your own notes on this. You’ll notice that
when I send out material and what is going to be described and discussed in thought throughout
the course, I send it out in Mandates. There is an important reason for that; by you taking you’re
own notes, you are going to be able to learn what it is that I am teaching in your own way. That
doesn’t mean to say that what you’re learning is contrary or different to what I am teaching - it
means that you are grasping it in your own frame, and in your own frame of reference. That’s
important because I am not going to be one of those teachers that are out there providing you
with a whole bunch of notes. By taking your own notes, you are going to assimilate the learning
at your own frequency and in the own way that you can understand it. It’s different to the majority
of the mainstream learning, you know university, high school, the way the largely experimental
learning system works – it’s much different. O.K.?
So I need you guys to be ready, and ready to go. I am going to just kick off tonight with a little bit
of an introduction as to why this is happening, how it all came about, how it came about that I
decided to open this course, and this MasterClass series to athletes and coaches in general, and
then I want to go over some goals and purposes of why we are here this week, what it is that we
are hoping to achieve with you, and how you can apply what you are going to learn this week to
your own training, and your own careers and your own athletes, indeed for the coaches as well.
I’ve done this MasterClass for a number of years now, and I’ve only ever opened it to high-end
athletes that are on my private client list. There has been a simple reason for that, and that’s that
they’re the people that generally want to get into the “know” of more of what it is that I’m going to
do on the inside of my business. This year we decided to open it to everyone else because we’ve
had such an influx of varied questions and people who wanted to get in deeper to the Double
Your Vertical Leap System than we have in the last two years. So this all came about, I guess a
few months ago when I was contacted by JumpUSA to discuss the possibility of opening up the
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MasterClass to users, and listeners, and coaches and trainers generally. We decided to go about
doing it this year, and to open it up to everyone because it’s something that the “average athlete”
will rarely, if ever, have a chance to be a part of. Now obviously you know, you came, and
registered, you did all that stuff, and that’s something that has never happened probably in the
sense of being a regular athlete you might show up to a seminar every now and then. It’s rare
that you will get into a week long MasterClass system that’s usually reserved for high-end
trainers, coaches and people that are largely “in the know”.
Now, tonight we’ve got a whole plethora of athletes - and for the rest of the week as well - I’ve got
a whole plethora of people from athletes to coaches, to trainers… all from 15-16 year olds,
average athletes, all the way up to NBA, NFL, Major League, Olympic, athletes, coaches, trainers
the whole bit.
So as I said, in mandate 2 about tonight, we’ve got to introduce everyone to this material at the
same level, so tonight it’s about laying the foundation clearly, it’s about laying the framework and
the reference point from where we can shoot for, and aim for, for the rest of the week. That’s
going to be important. The way this is going to have to work - and I want you to take it and accept
it like this - discussing point #1 here on Mandate 2, it’s that “Learner-Teacher” relationship and
what I’ve always called the “Submission Requisite”; where the structure of what I teach is so
diverse to what your going to find in the mainstream athletic world, and the mainstream training
world, and the Old-School conventional way of doing things that you have been so conditioned
into believing a set of circumstances based on a series of what people would lead you to believe
are facts and premises that you can then apply to your athletic career, to your athletics so on and
so forth.
Now what I need you to do for your own sake is to take what I am saying tonight, and for the rest
of the week, and assume what I am saying is correct and that you have not heard anything prior
to this. I’m getting to this first, because I cannot underestimate the importance of that. The world
from the top down - the NBA trainers that are on this, the NFL trainers that are on this, all the way
down to the 16-year old athletes, the 15-year old athletes that are basically recreational athletes,
perhaps for their high school - that entire world, from the top all the way to the bottom has very
much had a similar mentality. It doesn’t break.
Now there is a myth out there that somehow the NBA guys, or the NFL guys or the Olympians
learn something new, or are taught something new or are introduced to certain new things. I can
categorically say to you that that is very, very unlikely. In fact, I doubt that it is even the case at
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all. I’ve seen some things, some times that have somehow gotten involved with, but on a
large scale the thing that you need to understand is that what you are going to get here
this week is completely left field. It's shunned largely by an “Academic” crowd, it’s shunned by
so many other crowds but it’s the reason that I exist, and I do what I do is because it is so
effective. So, in coming here, clear your mind and assume that what you’ve heard, you’ve never
heard before and that what I’m teaching you is correct. Assume it for the sake of your learning
process and you will be able to apply what you are being taught much more quickly.
In terms of setting the structure for the week - now I have to get through all this La-di-dah crap at
the start because we need to have everybody on the same page - we need to build this on a solid
foundation, so I need to get through all of this stuff tonight. I build a learning framework on
something that is known as the Gestalt teaching method or the Gestalt learning method.
Now the Gestalt approach emphasizes that objects are organized into patterns or into blocks and
pieces of information, as opposed to steps that you learn this, then you learn that, as opposed to
the traditional learning framework of you do your 1 times tables, then you do your 2 times tables
then you do your 3 times tables – no – the Gestalt teaching method is the opposite. It bombards
and throws pieces of blocks of information at you, till you get to the point where you know what
I’m saying so well that you could probably go out and teach it for yourself. Now that would be the
ideal situation for me; for me to be sitting here, and teaching you, and to be throwing these
“Gestalts” at you so rapidly and so effectively that you could go out and teach someone else,
because that shows that you have absorbed everything.
The problem with prior learning and teaching methods is simple. People don’t absorb what it is
that they are learning. I’m very repetitive in how I teach, I mean I’m sure by now that you should
have read the Double Your Vertical Leap system… and you should know also how I repetitively
build on one topic. But I can talk about it from so many different angles, that eventually it hits you
and everything becomes clear. Now that’s the Gestalt, it’s the way that the Gestalt teaching
method enables you to learn. So according to this way when we open our eyes we don’t see
fractional particles in disorder – instead, we notice the elephant. It’s not the tusks. It’s not the
trunk of the elephant. It’s not the feet. It’s not the tail. It’s not the big ears. We are seeing the
whole animal. The idea of this is about “grouping”. That’s how we are going to approach it. It’s
how we will approach the Gestalt. It’s all about grouping so - in the laws of how it works, and so
forth there’s: proximity, similarity, closure and simplicity.
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Proximity means that like elements tend to be grouped together, that is,
similar elements tend to be grouped together;
Closure is when I deliver a complete pattern of teaching and then it all
comes into one big block so that kind of closure, it’s the
completeness;
Simplicity is how things are basically worked out. So for example, the
elephant is probably one of the good examples. When we look at an
elephant we see an elephant. We don’t see its tusks. We don’t see its
tail. We don’t see its ears.
So that’s how I teach, and you need to understand that because otherwise you’re going to expect
me to teach in a way that’s similar to high school, in that you sat in high school, you sat in college,
and 10 percent of it went into your brain and the other 90 percent of it passed through that lump
of fat mass in your head, and went out the other ear. That’s obviously not going to work for either
of us. The more I can get these repetitive Gestalts flowing through each lesson and each topic,
the greater the advantage it is going to be to you.
O.K., obviously in doing that - this is the third point on Mandate 2, if your just joining us the third
point on Mandate 2 is pretty simple – we’ve got to lay the foundations on the correct premise
because their are a lot of myths and a lot of lies related to athletic training.
Now after this, I’m going to discuss a couple of the goals and the purpose of why you are here
this week. But, in building on a correct premise - we have all heard the story of the three little
pigs… you know; one built a house of sticks, the other of straw, the other with bricks… you know
this is what we need to do, we need to build this house on bricks. We need to make sure that
things are built on a factual premise - and when I say fact, I mean that very simply it is something
that exists irrespective of your opinion or of my opinion. I harp on that so many times in all of my
writing in all of my client work, throughout Double Your Vertical Leap, throughout a number of
books that I’ve written and reports I have written. Basing your training efforts, basing your
structure, indeed your entire lifestyle, on factual premises that stand irrespective of your
opinion or my opinion on them.
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This is the reason why you can have a training system that someone’s perhaps personally
involved with, or you can have a training system that someone has developed, based on things
that occur outside of their own influence.
Now if you are basing things on something that occurs outside of someone’s own influence, then
no one's got an emotional attachment to them. They exist in reality, by mathematics, by science,
irrespective of if you like it or not. Now, I can tell you that my approach; the UPN concept, the five
components of power that I discuss, are completely left of what anyone else out there is teaching
and that’s what I mean, these things can only be discovered when the old stuff is done away with.
As soon as that “old” teaching, and that “old” method and that old frame of reference is removed,
you’re free to start exploring things based on the facts, as opposed to preconceived ideas that for
years and years and years the athletic world, and indeed, the entire gym culture has been based
on.
As you all know, anybody who has ever been to a gym or has ever laid under a bench press or
has ever stood under a squat rack or has ever sat on a or walked on a treadmill or sat on a
exercise bike, anybody who has ever done one of those things, knows everything about training.
You can argue till your blue in the face, especially a guy, a male who has laid under a bench
press once in his life, that’s it, he knows it all! What can you do to something like that? What is
there that you can do?
This is the same thing that is carried over through this macho fitness industry as much as it is in
the athletic performance industry for coaches, trainers, the whole bit. A lot of my work is on
clearing the old preconceived notions, and clearing the old clutter - that got no one anywhere
anyway - and clearing the old teaching methods and replacing them with things that work, with
things that are new, and with things that are effective, and efficient.
Those are two things that I harp on a lot as well. So when I say building things on a correct
premise, I mean that we need to find on the facts of the matter that exist irrespective of our
opinion of them. The reason that I like all of this stuff is because I have gotten rid of all of that
crap! The stuff that you will find, even people that even people who are teaching about vertical
leap, and there are very few of them, but the people who are out there are a good five years
behind of where I was at 5 years ago. I used to work under all of that stuff. I used to operate with
all of that stuff. I used to teach with all of that stuff. That was 5 years ago, I got rid of it because it
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didn’t work, and that’s how the UPN system came up because it was about establishing facts that
existed irrespective of any-ones opinions.
That’s why there can be no argument to something like that. If something has a factual base, a
factual premise, just like you can’t drive through a red light without stopping, it’s the same way,
you can argue until you are blue in the face. If it’s a red light, and you are going straight through
it, then you are in trouble. This is what I am talking about with facts.
So when I say correct premise, we are going to go through a whole bunch of different topics like,
you know, being able to Squat 2x your body weight before you start using plyometrics, you know
that perhaps a system like mine is only for advanced athletes, things like these are myths. Myths
kind of have this grain of truth in them. Lies are just utter rubbish, utter crap, and you want to get
rid of all that stuff, but before we get into that, how about we talk about the goals and purposes
of this week?
You’ve come here this week, registered over a month ago in good faith that I was going to even
show up which I have done. You know that most people are on this series of calls, as I probably
predicted, are people who already have used the Double Your Vertical Leap System and see the
effectiveness and the efficiency and the way that results come from very quickly with what I do.
Now, there is a simple reason why most - and it’s amusing - there is a simple reason why most of
the people who have purchased to be part of the MasterClass have already used the Double
Your Vertical Leap system, and that’s because they are already familiar with the way that it
works, and that its factual, and based on a factual premise
So when I am talking to you guys, you can probably understand most of what it is that I am saying
because it is in the same context and style that I deliver the volume information, especially
volume one and volume two in Double Your Vertical Leap.
So in terms of goals this week; the goal for you showing up, and based on the MasterClass
submissions that we have received through the portal, is to solidify the unclear components of the
Double Your Vertical Leap system - this is for the regular athletes - and then to build this thing
that I’ve called the 50-Inch Blueprint.
Now, this is a gutsy thing to do. I’m going to be the first one to admit it to you, to say that you can
build a 50-Inch Blueprint is going to be as different from one athlete to the other. So is there one
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blueprint that you do X, Y, Z things and that’s it and that’s my 50 inches? No, it’s not going to
work like that. It’s going to be as much individually catered to you and whether you have a season
o,n or you have this training to go to, or you play that sport, as it is to the next guy that has got to
do this stuff, this that and the other as well.
So this 50-Inch Blueprint that I talk about isn’t something that’s set in concrete, buts it’s just as
individual as the athlete is individual. And the more that I work with athletes, the more that I see
that there is a component where this fine tuning can occur, and provided that they have a number
of the things that we will discuss in the next couple of nights - things like weaving and you know
even things like bridging and weaving, the addition of the UPN plyometrics, and understanding
concepts like those and how to implement them, how to read your recovery level, where you are
at, where you are at metabolically, where your neurological system is at, these things are going to
be important for building that 50-Inch Blueprint. So, the goals for the week are two-pronged in
that; we need to be able to get you to implement the Double Your Vertical Leap System better,
and as I said in the MasterClass Submission Portal, a number of our submissions have been
related to better implementing the Double Your Vertical Leap System. Obviously the system we
have is incredible in that when we offer it on the website, we say you will gain 6 inches in 60 days
or you’ll not only receive your money back but you will also get one hundred dollars cash too.
Now just for your information, we have not given out the refund plus the one hundred dollars yet.
Now you can call that amazing, you can call it what you will, but the fact stands that it’s not
possible for someone to do what’s noted and written and set out in that course and not gain the 6
inches in the 60 days.
I know that I’m dealing with a number of different coaches and athletes from different levels here
tonight, so I realize that some of you claim and think that you don’t even have 60 days or thirty
days indeed to do something like this, however, what you need to understand through some of
the techniques that we are going to discuss, and Gestalt into tomorrow night, we are going to see
that we can add these techniques and see where the leverage points are in the five components
of power development, and then see how you can adjust your training regime, to enhance, to pick
out one of the five elements and build leverage on that element, as opposed to doing all of them
in one, as it is written in the sample program in volume 3.
So, in terms of goals, it’s getting you to implement the flow of Double Your Vertical Leap, what’s
being taught there, not just as the sample program, but implement what’s being taught as the
structure and the flow of it into your training regime. Now, that’s very important because not only
are we having requests like that, but it means that the software and the system has a capacity to
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change and give, based on the athletes requirements, whereas - in the actual system right now -
that flexibility isn’t there, because it hasn’t been outlined. You guys will have that outlined for you.
So it’s a major, major advantage, and arguably being as serious as you are, that’s why athletes,
trainers, and people like you have shown up to this MasterClass because you want to have that
capacity, that flexibility, that freedom to gain results where you otherwise wouldn’t.
Secondly, in building the 50-Inch Blueprint, of course the question mark is going to be - is
everyone going to get a 50-inch vertical leap? The answer, most definitely is no! We can set out a
blueprint that’s based on an athletes ability to read themselves, and to do those things, but their is
no way on God's green earth that I can go out and do and implement the system for you.
Will you receive a 50 inch vertical leap by being part of this MasterClass? You may.
We’ve got nine athletes that have done this, thus far. Most of them are private clients, and a
number, two, two I think have just used the Double Your Vertical Leap System by itself but have
used it exclusively, in an exclusive capacity, without going into too much other training outside of
themselves. A 50-inch vertical leap is an incredible thing to see. It’s absolutely incredible to see,
but it’s not necessary for a career in sports. I’ve never ever said that an incredible leap, even a 50
inch vertical leap, is necessary for a career in sports - I simply don’t believe that,
I think that there are a lot of components out there that are important, or more important, or just
as important. However, for Athlete A to be himself with a 30 inch vertical leap, and Athlete A to be
himself with a 40 inch vertical leap; that 10 inches of leap, or that 5 inches of leap - and if you
know, and if you have trained properly and you have actually, I’m saying this to the kids now, and
you have actually measured your results properly, instead of an inflated expectation of what your
results are - you will know that just two inches of vertical leap will change your game.
It will mean that whatever athletic endeavor you are involved with, you hit that spot, that split
second quicker; you hit that, you’re able to make that cut, you are able to make that move, you
are able to hit that yard, just that one step quicker. Just 2 inches will do that for you. Now 6 inches
is very easy for any athlete and I want you to get that into your head that, in a certain capacity,
not everyone is going to have a 50-inch vertical leap, we all know that. But what we are doing
with the blueprint is we are saying here is how you can further maximize what it is you have as an
athlete, and indeed you can work your numbers backwards, and if you want to put in the time
energy and the effort you can put those, work backwards off those numbers in a similar sense to
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how the 50-inch report is structured, and based on the mathematical frequency, and how I will
introduce you to those concepts that I have talked about just previously you would have seen in
Mandate 3, like bridging, weaving, base repetition, UPN plyometrics, even reverse appropriation
and things of that. Once you can see that those can be incorporated into how you structure your
program, or how you structure your training, you are going to see that you are not just restricted
to the sample program in volume 3, and that is going to be important to you.
The topic this week, sorry the topic for the next two nights tonight, and tomorrow night is the
training component of the MasterClass. So it is important, that we establish the authority of
vertical leap and athletic power output training as is point number 4 on your Mandate number 2
there.
When I talk about the authority of vertical leap and athletic power output training I mean simply
that, when you are training in a vertical plane - as opposed to a horizontal, or a lateral plane, you
know, people will talk about you know the ability to cut back and forth, or sprint speed, or
something like that - when you are training in that vertical plane, that straight up and down plane,
that I much prefer to have athletes train in, you will see that effectiveness and efficiency of
workout is increased dramatically.
Now effectiveness means the result that is put into the body, and efficiency means the time that it
is able to be achieved. They are two key important components to what I teach, effectiveness,
and efficiency, because, as I said in the Double Your Vertical Leap System, largely peoples
problem with their training is reducing the crap that people are doing and not even fully replacing
it, but replacing it with slight little bits of workload that are more targeted, more effective, and
efficient.
So in relation to vertical leap, and to speed, and to power generally, the most effective and
efficient way to address it is through training through the vertical plane. Now the vertical plane
means that you are operating up and down, directly against gravity – that’s what makes it so
efficient and effective. And that’s how you are going to be able to get your results quicker and
through the 5 components of the movement phase of the power development that we are going to
discuss later on.
Comparative and subjective mathematics vs. scientific research. This is an interesting topic.
As I said if you’re just joining us, this is just information on the framework right now. I like this
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topic, I like discussing scientific research and you’ll see that I’ve put that into talking marks there
because it’s quite an amusing topic you see.
I’ve told you from your own experience that anyone who has ever walked into a gym knows
everything about training. So you can’t teach someone about training, or how to train better, or
how to jump higher, or how to run faster unless they are willing to submit to you as a teacher. You
can’t do it, that’s the first point that I have covered. When I talk about scientific, you know
scientific research vs. comparative and subjective mathematics, I’m talking about the traditional
framework, and setting vs. basing things on mathematical equations that you can predict and go
on over time and time again.
Now this is generally what people have - you have a lot of pseudo scientists in training, there is
no doubt about that, there is a lot of pseudo scientists who have quoted a couple of JAMA
journals, a couple of scientific studies here and there and somehow think that their lives are
justified by doing so. This is wrong, this is wrong! Majority of the people are out there, this works
this way and that works that way, these academics and scientific minds, all like to know that such
man said so and so, and this study said this and thus and this and that says thus and so and so
on and so forth - and everybody knows what everybody says but no body has the balls to actually
take one piece of information and stand on it and say this is how it works.
This is where what I teach is different, my job as I have seen it in developing The Vertical Project
has been to sift through, literally like a sift, sift through the academic material, sift through the
scientific studies, see if it’s appropriated in a way that’s relative to athletes and then make a
conclusion based on that, or based on having to scrap it totally.
Clearly, anybody can cite a scientific study and by doing so it seems to make you like official and
well read and well researched and so on and so forth. Also not the case. A lot of the scientific
studies that people cite, have nothing to do with the athlete that they are writing for or that they
are training, and a large number, a large number of trainers do the same thing to make
themselves look legitimate.
You know as well as I know that I very rarely cite scientific studies and I don’t do that for a
number of reasons - the first reason is that science hasn’t studied what I teach. So how can I cite
a study based on it? I very much can’t. So in doing that, there is a reason why science hasn’t
studied what I teach, and that reason is that scientists have to be told and taught where to look
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for what it is that they are drawing their hypothesis about - and their hypothesis if you don’t know,
is their statement that they are trying to find, trying to focus on, or trying to achieve by doing their
study.
Now, if scientists or research people have to be shown, and told, and taught where to look, and
what to look for, what do you think will influence them the most? What do you think it is? It’s going
to be the fact that someone is spending money, to tell them go and look at this, go and do that!
Someone is injecting capital or funds or research funds to do that. Now, most of the research
funding and so on and so forth that’s given to scientists, especially in performance, is given by
supplement companies, and pharmaceutical companies. There is no difference in that either.
So, they are not going to be looking at what it is that I am doing #1, because I am not paying
them millions of dollars to go and do research on it, and #2 I don’t really feel as if we need
justification on it because results are king. Results in the performance world are king! If you
are getting results, your athletes are getting results you are able to put it into a format that works
for you, and is based on mathematics, this principle of mathematics converging with science
somewhere that medium that the two of those hit, that’s what it is you want. You want that
mathematical equation that applies to you and that cannot be argued with. It exists outside of
both of our influences and opinions, and that’s the great thing about it.
Now, in moving along a little bit here, I want to get into these old fallacies that should probably be
in talking marks too. The old fallacies and really setting the framework from where we can go
from here.
Now I’ve said a number of times and if you have listened to me and you’ve read my emails, I’m
not going to rely on the fact that you have, but if you have listened to me for awhile, you will know
that there are two types of athletic power. One is specific power, and one is versatile power,
and this is where basically a number of the training methods that are part of the mainstream, this
is where a lot of them lose their ground and a lot of other things begin to pick up speed, and pick
up relevance, and pick up applicability to your training.
The thing that we need to understand about these two types of power is - as I say in the Double
Your Vertical Leap System, if you go to Volume 1.2 now I will let you go there. Just open it up on
your computer and go into Volume 1.2. I will give you a couple of minutes to get there… Just
volume 1.2, you should have it open now, if you scroll down a little bit, below the five movement
phases of power development, you will see that I have noted that - and I have said that the fact is
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there are at least two types of power, as related to movement and sports for the purpose of this
we will focus on these two types. These two types of power are: specific power, and versatile
power.
This is what I am saying here:
“When dealing with power, it is important that as an athlete, you want and need only versatile
power unless you are a line backer, or someone who makes very few movements.”
And I go into a discussion there about the power lifting mentality, you know the heavy squats,
these types of things that fundamentally don’t allow an athlete to gain athleticism very quickly,
anyway, but I discuss how a power lifter is going to train for a specific movement example: is a
bench press or squat. In power lifting movements their bodies are under load the whole time.
That is, during a squat, at no time is the bar released from the back, and at no time I shall also
add are the feet, leaving the ground and that is important as well, and we will get to that in a
minute.
But, the point I want to get to there is that power doesn’t exist in a vacuum - athletic power and
specifically vertical leap. You can, you might be able to jump high for an athlete, but you also
must be able to jump applicably to the sport that you are playing. Now a power lifter and many
people like to say that how great it is that power lifters can jump 40 inches and they are fat as all
hell, and would never play sport anyway. Sorry if you are a power lifter here on the line with me,
but that’s just the way it is - you can like it, or you can lump it. This is called specific power,
because there is no application to the sporting field. This guy can jump 40 inches - yeah, so
what?? He’s done it because he has a back that is proportionally as strong as his legs which no
athlete should have, because they don’t require it, so these are things you have to look at and
discern within your training because I am telling you if you go into these powerlifting type regimes,
they are eventually going to slow you down, if not they will injure you. It is very simple, because
you are doing something that is versatile, and you are using a "specific", "versatile" - you are
using a specific mode for a versatile result. One does not equal the other, there is no
appropriation there.
My second point that I want to address here is neurology vs. muscularity. Neurology vs.
muscularity is a big part of my Gestalt. Neurology vs. Muscularity - get rid of seeing this idea of
seeing the body with your eyes, and instead see it with your mind.
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Neurologically the body operates down electrical pathways running from the CNS (Central
Nervous System) which is based in the brain. O.K.? There are electrical firing patterns that occur
in the body that there is no point in us getting into because it is just going to go over everyone’s
head and we are just going to lose the applicability of it. The vertical leap is a function of
neurological capacity not of muscular strength. Do you want me to repeat it? The vertical
leap is a function of neurological capacity, and not of muscular strength. Muscular strength can
be divided into different components.
For example: let’s just take a vertical leap, a standing vertical leap, the standard measurement of
the vertical. The two-footed straight up and down jump. The muscles that are involved in that are
many. I mean you have the calves, the shins, the fronts of your thighs, the backs of your thighs,
your butt, your lower back, even your abs and your shoulders and your arm swing all comprise as
part of that movement, right. That’s one electrical current that is occurring there. Just one,
because it goes into the ground and comes back up. It’s your force applied to the ground as you
swing low into the jump, and then jump upwards. It’s one electrical current.
If you are going to train the body into various components by themselves, you are cutting
off the electrical flow. I will repeat it for you again, if you are going to train the body into
separate individual components, for example: the difference here is the difference between doing
a vertical leap vs. a leg extension, or a single leg hyperextension vs. a leg curl. There is no
comparison. A leg curl is going to kill your results, a single leg hyperextension on a flat
hyperextension bench - which I’ll acknowledge people are finding difficult to find an old machine,
that can be difficult to find, but if you can find them - that single-legged hyperextension is
something that is incredible for the vertical leap. That aside, I’m not going to take the side bar and
start discussing exercises because I don’t think that’s what this week is for.
The neurological capacity of the vertical jump has nothing to do with the segments of the muscles
that are involved with it. So you don’t want to be cutting things off, and viewing the body as a
series of muscles and groups. You want to be working the m in a way that they are all grouped
together to achieve, in a sense, the similar movement anyway. Now, that’s where a movement
like the single leg hyperextensions, like the standard vertical jump, like the max height jumps as
we call them, like the calf jump curls with the single leg - these types of things encourage the
body to move as a body in one neurological system as opposed to a divided and a split system,
which if you are going to allow the body to go into that, you are going to see that what happens
with the body is that it cuts off the neurological flow, because the flow goes through evenly. Now if
you go and train the hamstrings differently then what you train the calves, then the flow that goes
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through both of those - you might do higher reps for calves, and lower reps for your hamstrings -
the neurological flow changes as it goes through the calves through the hamstrings and back into
the central nervous system and down again. So it will have to go through the nervous system
twice which we don’t need to go into now. But, if you are going to segment the body into different
components, you are already cutting the flow and making the flow have to change its electrical
flow at each different muscle group it arrives at.
So it’s important that you use the types of training modes and exercises that I provide within the
Double Your Vertical Leap System because by splitting up your training into body parts and so on
and so forth, you are going to cut the neurological efficiency of the body and thus cut the
effectiveness of the UPN component and cut the effectiveness of starting acceleration,
progressive acceleration, power output, recoordination, the whole bit. You cut it - and if someone
is not achieving the results with the system that as it stands using the power output, following the
sample regime that we have required you to implement as part of the Double Your Vertical Leap
System, then the reason is because they are either not finding their UPN's properly, or they are
changing and addressing the program as they see fit.
Now, this is another thing that I need to address to establish this frame of reference that we will
use the rest of the week. Don’t change what’s been written, because it assumes that you are the
teacher and I am the student or something like that, that somehow my work needs to be adjusted
because you somehow know better. If that is the case, then you would be sitting in this seat, and I
would be sitting in your seat. I can tell you that. If there was someone I could learn from, I would
be sitting in on their MasterClass. In relation to vertical leap, there is no body that I can learn
from, O.K. In relation to vertical leap, so long as I’m alive, you will always be able to learn from
me.
I want you to get that clear in your own mind for your own sake. This is not for boasting sake, this
is not for some kind of warped view of arrogance to say, this is for your own learning sake. Don’t
go adjusting the program and fitting it to your own needs, and splitting up one part of the training
in the morning, and one part of the training at night, if you are not getting through it in an hour or
45 minutes, then you are doing something wrong! So, don’t go splitting it up. Don’t do that, it’s set
neurologically, the program is set neurologically, you will see how I go through the program, the
volume 3.3 program that’s the sample program in there, and it’s set like that for a reason, and it’s
set like that to address the five components of the movement phases which are listed in volume
1.2, and which are important and which can be leveraged differently to each athlete as per their
situation requires.
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In terms of these 5 components of the vertical leap and developing the movement, developing it
not only in how many inches you can gain, but in some people it’s correcting their form and doing
this properly, to start with, so they can be explosive - I discuss 5 points. The five points you
should know are:
1) Starting Acceleration
2) Progressive Acceleration
3) Power Output Training
4) Fixation Stabilization which - this is a secret for you - is slightly irrelevant and
5) Recoordination which is important as well.
Now when it comes to something like Starting Acceleration vs. Progressive Acceleration, this has
been a point that I think people might have gotten confused on.
Starting Acceleration, the training that addresses Starting Acceleration, is that which
addresses the movement at its commencement. You will notice that in volume 3.3, if you go
there now - that’s the sample workout that’s included in the Double Your Vertical Leap System -
you will notice that I address Starting Acceleration basically as the first modality that is addressed
as part of the program. Now, we do some active warm-up things and stuff like that, we do things
like the side leg raises, and all that stuff, fair enough, that’s not Starting Acceleration. The Starting
Acceleration things include the Box Squats at the percentages, and so on and so forth. Starting
Acceleration is very important, I don’t think you should cut it out from what it is that you are
doing… because of the way it is structured. Starting Acceleration point always addresses the
bottom initiation of the Vertical Leap. So, as you know, in the seated Box Squat that you do, that
you are required to perform as part of it, you start at what you call a “Dead Start” meaning that
there is more attention to quick tension very quickly. O.K. That’s what Starting Acceleration is
addressing, it’s addressing that ability to go from the bottom of the movement and explode – bang
– upwards very quickly O.K.? It’s not addressing other than perhaps the first inch or two of your
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hips moving upwards in the leap movement or any power movement O.K.? It’s only addressing
that kick off ability O.K.? It’s not designed to wear you out. If it wears you out that’s a problem,
and that’s the same for Power Output training as well. If it wears you out that’s a problem.
Starting Acceleration has to be addressed always from a dead start. O,K. and it has to be very
powerful, very, very powerful. You have to do things starting from a relaxed state and shift
quickly, very quickly into an explosion. That’s how it becomes effective.
From there you move onto which is probably the component that can be leveraged for many of
you that are in on this MasterClass series, and indeed for athletes generally, people who are
already using the power output equation in their training, for them, the point where they can
leverage their training without a doubt is Progressive Acceleration phase. Because, that’s a
really interesting one, because it means that as you are rising up, out of the Starting Acceleration
phase, as you are rising up, you are rising up quicker and quicker, as opposed to slower.
Now what I’ve just said to rise up quicker and quicker, as opposed to rise up slower and slower
may not make much sense to you, until you consider how the majority of how the majority of the
vertical leap training is achieved or even just regular weight training is done. If you consider the
squat, even the box squat - the box squat that we use for Starting Acceleration - as you rise up, to
the top of the movement, to be standing at lock out virtually, you notice that you don’t leave the
ground. What’s happened there? What’s happened physiologically? What’s happened, more
importantly, neurologically? Let me answer it – what’s happened is your body as its risen up has
started up extremely powerful, but as its risen up, you’ve put the “brakes” on it, to stop yourself
from jumping, to stop yourself from leaving the ground. Otherwise you would leave the ground,
because the weights you are using for the box squat at any rate, aren’t heavy enough to for you
to stay necessarily on the ground, you could jump them if you wanted to. But what’s happened is
that you have subconsciously, through your neurological system, through your brain, not through
your muscles, but through your brain, you have halted yourself, and you have “braked” yourself.
That’s important because that means as you are rising higher, higher, and higher your
acceleration is deceleration, you are not accelerating.
Are you following me?
As you raise higher and higher in that movement, in a regular squat, unless you release the
tension and you go for your maximum height, you are decelerating. Now that means that… I
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mean I’ve seen it a number of times, rapid changes can be made in an athlete’s ability to be
powerful just by addressing the Progressive Acceleration phase properly.
Progressive Acceleration means that the higher you go, the faster you go up, and the
higher you reach. Now, as I’ve said to you in a regular movement, the higher you go the slower
you go, because you are putting the brakes on yourself subconsciously. You want to be putting
the acceleration on yourself so that you speed up as you get higher. That’s not to say that you are
not quick at the bottom, it’s to say that you are explosive the whole way through and don’t have
that subconscious braking on yourself, that prevents you from jumping at your highest and
reaching your maximum.
The only, the only way that - unless we decided to turn gravity upside down for a bit, or train
upside down - the only way to train for Progressive Acceleration is in water. Now we are
going to get into a lot more of that stuff tomorrow, but just for you to establish this base for
tomorrow, and probably for the rest of the week, because I think that it is so important based on
the submissions that we have as well from the submission portal, Progressive Acceleration for
many of you, and indeed for many athletes generally, is going to be the point where you can
leverage your vertical gains where you may not have been able to previously, and while you are
in-season and things like that which has been a common question. Alright? So we are going to be
getting into that in more depth tomorrow.
Wow still got a lot of stuff to do, and we are already an hour through. So let me move onto
Power Output now. Power Output, that’s the UPN component of the training system. I’ve got a
number … that the way I’m structuring this is that I am teaching for an hour, and then I’m moving
onto Case Studies and Submission portal questions for an hour, so I am going to keep kicking on
here. I told you that I am going to go overtime on most of these courses, on most of these
evenings rather. There’s a couple of reasons for that, #1 we’ve got so much to get through. #2 I
like to over-deliver; I like to make sure that I give you more than what you came for. It’s important,
it is going to be important for you, and it’s going to mean that you get more out of this and that
your results are ensured over time.
So let’s move onto Power Output. Power Output, power has always been expressed - and
everybody will tell you this, every Tom, Dick, and Harry will tell you - that Power = Force x
velocity, or Mass x Acceleration. This is the mathematical expression of power. Don’t you know
that you Doofus?
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Power = Force x Velocity
Well, that’s nice. That’s nice to know. But what does that mean? If someone is going to say that.
then why is it that they are not addressing each component of the equation? Clearly, when you
look at the words Velocity or Acceleration, and I actually teach the equation as being different, but
let’s use the standard one. You’ve got your pen and paper in front of you; I want you to do this. I
want you to write:
Power = Force x Velocity
(Mass x Acceleration)
So Mass should be under Force, and Acceleration should be under Velocity, right? Circle Velocity
and Acceleration for me please. O.K. those two components which are basically saying the same
thing, those two components are functions of time. Let me repeat it, Velocity and Acceleration
are functional units of time. Think about it - Time! If time is not taken into consideration in
whatever type of training that you do, you are not going to be able to systematically over time,
know if you are increasing your power or not. I will repeat that because we had a bit of a cutting in
there. If your training is not addressing the unit of time, then there is no way that you’re
going to know if you are increasing power or not. Now, I don’t get into public arguments, in
fact I very rarely do public seminars or attend anything like that, because I don’t want to know
about it, because it’s so far off the fact that it’s a problem, that so many people are misled down
that path. I don’t want to get into arguments with people because I don’t warrant my talents to
argue with them. They are not addressing the power component through the time component of
power. This is where Power Output has to be addressed through timing. This is why the UPN
system is used to address Power Output, because it’s a function of time. I’m saying this based on
experience based on the use of the Double Your Vertical Leap system, and based on and so
many athletes that we’ve had, be able to improve their training abilities over time. What it is that
we are seeing is that, as time decreases through the training efforts that people are using and
displaying, as time decreases, results increase. I will say it again, as time decreases, results
increase. And that’s why the UPN system works so well, and as well as it does, and that’s why
it’s so important for you or your athletes to have that UPN component in there, and to use it
properly.
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Now this is all high-impact stuff, and it’s important that the athlete you know at certain times of
their career or at certain times of the season doesn’t have too much high-impact stuff, but I’m
going to address that tomorrow, O.K.?
Fixation and Stabilization - I’m kind of not too much of a big fan of that, though I do think that
Fixation and Stabilization are important to a lot of athletes and there’s a clear reason for this. I
don’t really want to get into it, to be honest with you, but the reason is; it’s like a car needing a
wheel alignment check or something like that. If the wheels are not aligned, then the power, and
the effort, and the thing that’s driving the car isn’t going to allow the car to drive at full capacity or
to channel its power through the plane that it needs to travel through. So everybody knows that
when they are driving their car and as it’s happening, they are going ahead, they are moving
ahead, if the wheels are not aligned, then you are going to use more fuel to get to the same
place. That just basically means that power is dispersed unevenly – it’s the same for the athlete,
think of it as an athlete - power is dispersed unevenly and it’s not going through the right channel.
There is no other application for stability and fixation training to the athlete. There is none. It is
only to help them align their wheels and get them into the track where they are channeling all
their power through the right movement.
Now for some athletes, I’d say younger athletes, or less experienced athletes, less capable
athletes, fixation training is going to play a role. But as it was touted 3 or 4 years ago, Fixation
training isn’t the be all, end all that it came to be and, in fact, it’s not really that important to
athletes at high levels, or people that know how to jump, know how to run, athletes that are
playing at the top levels because their bodies are being taught to stabilize just by competing in
their sports, and competing in their endeavors anyway. So, that’s a component that’s important
but, you know, all five components are important, but I don’t think it’s worth harping on.
Recoordination is an interesting one. It’s the fifth component, and it’s probably, it’s the final
one, the component that you need to address in a training program. Most people address that
stuff, that Recoordination training at the start of a training session. This is neurologically flawed.
There is a very good reason for that. If you are going to train an athlete through Recoordination at
the start of their training session when they are so called “fresh”, then the body works on a default
of what it last did, neurologically. That’s the way it works, because you are rewiring the
neurological system, so that’s why you know I’ve been telling you about reverse appropriation
with the specific exercises like the leg extension vs. the squat vs. the max height jump, or the
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single leg hyperextension vs. the leg curl. You’re programming athletes to neurologically work
differently if you are going to put their Recoordination work at the start of the training session.
You want to put that at the end simply because that’s the movement that they are using when
they are in competition or whether it is football, basketball, track, anything like that. That
Recoordination component of their training needs to be at the end because that’s the, if you will,
“extra neurological wiring” that allows the athlete, mentally on a subconscious level, apply the
training that they received back to the court, to the track, to the field and to the movements that
they would naturally be participating in, with whatever sport it is that they are part of. It’s
important that that’s last and not first. Obviously that is another bone that I have had to pick at the
traditionalists, but it’s the way that it works, you know?
So these are the things that we are going to be addressing this week. Basically when we are
addressing Recoordination, specifically, and when I am addressing Power Output, more is going
to come out of the discussion that we have based on the Case Studies. Now a lot of the work I’ve
received in the last well.. well I'll say except for today, we've taken all the submissions from the
portal and we’ve put them into the course thus far. So, what you are going to see is that when I
teach on my Gestalts, my first hour where I just get to sit here, and go on and on and on and on,
as I’ve been doing, you are going to see that the second hour is going to be, it will not only
complement that but put it into a perspective that you can go out and apply and so on and so
forth. But you are going to see that it’s going to address the same topics, it’s going to address the
same things and really allow you, allow me to beat to death the topics and allow you to
understand it in a way that you can go out and discuss it with someone afterwards. O.K.? They
are the goals, that’s where we are heading right now. It's the premise. We've laid the ground work
here you know. So, I’m going to take 30 seconds now, and move into the case studies. I hope
you guys are doing well. If you need to get up, go to the bathroom, get a drink, get out of your
seat, take the phone away from your ear for a little bit, you should go and do that now.
I am going to get a quick drink. I’m going to stay on the line, but I’m just going to have a quick
drink and I want you guys to just kind of sit there and I want you to get done the things you need
to get done that are going to prevent you from listening properly. Alright we will be kicking off on
the Case Studies in a little bit.
In the meantime, the interesting thing you will find is that with the Case Studies, a lot of different
material will come out, but it will be related to the same topics. So, it is going to reinforce learning
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and that’s a big part of the learning curve; to see the elephant for its tusks, for its ears and for its
big snout, and for its tail and everything that it is, you know.
We need to approach these things from all these angles to make sure that your learning properly
and to make sure that everything is being assimilated and that’s why your going to get these calls
recorded, you’re going to be able to go over these things repetitively because it’s the best way
you’re going to be able to apply this to your training, and to your lifestyle, even your entire life so
that your training is maximized.
O.K. I want to kick into some Case Studies now, were just starting section 2 and I’ve gone an
hour and about ten minutes due to introduction and I’ve probably gone for an hour and five
minutes tonight on section 1. Section 2 is going to be slightly different, it’s going to be based on
the Case Studies and the MasterClass Submission portals, Portal Submissions that we’ve had.
The interesting thing about these is that you are going to be able to have your questions
answered in a way that relates to the topic that we are discussing tonight.
So, not everybody’s things are going to be answered, there is a reason for that. I’m going to
address every topic that comes through the portal or comes to the portal. Some of them that
come through now, it might be difficult to work them in, but the topics that are coming through, are
generally repetitive, in that they tend to repeat themselves, and are generally going to be covered
by one persons questions or the other. O.K.? So, if you don’t hear your specific name or whatever
it is or your specific question coming up, then generally it is because your question will be
answered in either the body of what it is that I've discussed previously in my Gestalts, or within
the body of someone else's question. So tonight, this discussion on basing… you know we’ve
wanted to set the framework for the rest of the week. Tonight we want to get into the submissions
that address simple things like, use of weight belts, UPN, how the UPN and time under tension
works, how something can be arranged for adjusting the UPN's and real basic Power Output
UPN structure stuff. I want to hit that stuff really hard because I want to make sure everyone is
getting it – it’s only with this stuff that we are going to be able to move onto other things tomorrow
night because this is the basis for it.
I’ve got a question here. This question is related to definitely the stuff tonight I want to get into.
This is from Ben.
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Ben asks: In relation to the weight belts during the sample program, (I talk a lot about adding this
weight belt) I wanted to this is a direct quote from Ben "I wanted to make sure to note that when I
was using the weight belt I was holding the extra weight as described, counting the weight belt as
my own body weight. This made the UPN exercises extremely difficult since I was using the
Advanced Charts."
Luke: Now, that’s a break in a paragraph there put in by Jason. I need to address, the UPN, the
weight belt, the adjusting of weight through the UPN, through adding the UPN to your training
system, and how that affects the athlete as a whole.
I’ll just pull this question up here right now and take a side bar. Ben has said: "using the weight
belt made the UPN exercises extremely difficult especially since I was using the advanced
charts." This is a problem, the UPN exercises have to be performed in a certain way. They are
the Uncompromised Performance Number, and they have to relate specifically to your own Power
Output capacity as is subjective to your performance, O.K.?
Ben, to answer your question and to those of you who are wondering, if your UPN exercises are
extremely difficult because you are using the advanced chart or the weight belt, you either
shouldn't be using the advanced charts, or the weight belt has got to much weight on it.
The UPN, by its very nature, can't be compromised. It’s called an uncompromised performance
number. You can’t go out and think that by adding extra weight or doing the advanced chart that
you’re somehow going to be better off. You’re going to be worse off if you don’t follow it properly.
It’s fine to use the weight belt during the day or hold onto it or whatever, but it’s not going to assist
you in your training if you are not performing the UPN for what it is, which is this uncompromised
ability for you to express power, through the movements of what it is, whatever movement it is
that tends to be a key few movements that we use in the sample program but for whatever
movement it is that requires the UPN.
So let’s go over the UPN again, I want you to go to volume 1.4, O.K.?
You should have Double Your Vertical Leap open on your computer screen right now, and if not
you may have it printed off. I want you to go to volume 1.4, I’ll let you have a minute or two to get
there and I’m going to get into the discussion of the UPN here. If you scroll down, and you get
past the Power Output equations that I've noted there, keep scrolling past those Power Output
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equations, and you will get to a point where it says 1) Bodyweight 2) Maximum Squat 1rm 3)
Maximum Bench Press 1rm, spotter required for all this stuff.
4) Uncompromised Performance Number - there has been some confusion on this so I think it’s
worth correcting. The Uncompromised Performance Number UPN is expressed as the amount of
perfect repetitions minus 1. O.K.? Perfect repetitions - what is a perfect repetition? A perfect
repetition is the highest reaching, fastest, quickest movement that an athlete is capable of
sustaining for a certain amount of reps. O.K. so that perfect repetition is the highest reaching,
fastest moving, the quickest reps that an athlete is able to perform.
Let’s use an example - the Maximum Height Jump. The standard vertical jump right? Your
standing there, you jump, you reach for your maximum height, upon landing you straight back up
again, reaching for that maximal height, reaching quickly upon landing - people will want to go
into this being the amortization phase and all this kind of stuff, that’s rubbish, get rid of all of this,
there is a lot of garbage out there, don’t worry about all that stuff – I’m just going to say, getting
off the ground quick and still hitting high, as high as you can hit, it won’t necessarily be your
vertical leaps height, but your vertical might be 30 inches, and your only getting 26 inches on
these repetitive jumps.
But the focus for you has to be on responding quickly off the ground, hitting the ground and hitting
back off quickly, and jumping to your maximum height. As soon as you hit that point where your
response to the ground is slower, or you’re not reaching as high as you can possibly touch, as
high as you can possibly reach, as quickly as you can, you have hit the “point of compromise”.
It's very important that we understand this point of compromization… where it hits, how it
guarantees individuality to your workout because if you’re using the UPN, and the UPN's are not
working for you, or they haven’t worked for you, which I haven’t had any reports of that on this
MasterClass, but the only reason that they cannot work for you is basically that if you are stuffing
them up.
So I can clarify these points for you so this is what I want to do for Ben here because clearly, I’m
not ripping you out Ben or anything like that, but clearly by understanding, your understanding of
UPN means that you've compromised them. If you’re compromising them because you’re adding
a weight belt, or you’re adding the advanced charts or something like that, then you know you’re
not at that Uncompromised Performance Number, you’re at a CPN a Compromised Performance
Number, so it’s not a UPN anymore.
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The UPN is where you hit that point of compromise, it might be 6 reps right? You hit the sixth and
you feel like “I’m not getting as high, I’m not getting off the ground as fast”, you hit that number,
that’s the point of compromise and you take off 1… because obviously you want to be at the point
of Uncompromised Performance, no compromise at all. If you hit compromise at 6, that means
that 5 is where you weren’t compromised.
So you take that as your UPN. 5 is probably the lowest UPN we have, I’m not going to get into
that now, but 5 is the lowest valid UPN you can have - so let’s say you have hit 5. Don’t worry
about adding the advanced charts, the weight belt, all this extra stuff that looks like add-ons and
appears to be adding results to you, it’s not necessarily adding results, unless your power output,
and your vertical is increasing with it. And that’s an important thing for you to understand is that
when you are training, when you are going into the gym or wherever it is that you’re training, you
don’t want to feel like your coming out of it stuffed, you don’t want to feel totally screwed.
Because the entire point of this Uncompromised Performance Number is that you never actually
train the neurological system past its validity. In doing that, you are not wearing the body out, and
that’s an important thing to understand because some coaches out there, especially you guys
that have got professional athletes, or you've got Olympic athletes that you work with, you are
going to be worried about the load and the impact that the athletes taking upon landing and doing
this repetitious stuff - there is not so much of a worry because the way that the charts work, is that
the reps actually decrease, but the time and the rest is a manipulated function, as too is the
weight that you carry with the body as well.
O.K. so Ben's gone onto say in the next paragraph here that “It actually got on to the point that I
was unable to complete the exercises at maximum speed, and height, and I was unsure of how to
make adjustments. I was unsure of what I was doing wrong, what adjustments do I need to make
for next time?"
If you’re not able to complete the UPN as an Uncompromised Performance Number, not a
Compromised Performance Number, but a UPN, not a CPN if you want to put it like that, then
that’s your adjustment. You have got to get rid of that weight belt, and you have got to go back to
the basic charts.
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The second component of this training here is… I’ve got a question here from Kyle, and this going
to be relating to, this is all going to be relating to UPN's and applying UPN's and applying training
and so forth.
Kyle says: I have been working out and playing sports my whole life, especially basketball. I have
always dreamed of slam dunking on a fast break or over another player.
Luke says: That’s pretty similar for most basketballers.
Kyle says: I can grab the rim with my fingertips after a quick step up, I am 24 years old, 5'11, and
160 lbs. I feel like I’ve stopped gaining vertical, or it takes a lot to get higher. Also I like to lift
weights 3-4 times a week, I ride my bike…
Luke says: I’ve put a big red question mark there.
Kyle says: and play sports, and I consider myself to be a highly advanced athlete. I don’t want to
lose weight, or become skinny just to jump higher, I would like to get bigger, stronger, and faster.
If I could jump 40 inches, let alone 50 inches, I would be slam dunking on bigger, stronger
players.
Luke says: Of course, you would.
Righty-O, the point I want to make here is Kyle, is I’m not to sure what validity you see in riding
your bike, unless you are trying to lose body fat or you enjoy doing it. But, it’s not going to help
your vertical leap. Not one bit. It’s going to re-program your body into being weaker, and your
neurological system into charging through less electrical current through what primarily lifts you
off the ground, so I would probably cut out the bike first.
When you say you like to lift weights 3-4 times a week, that’s fantastic. Are you lifting them in
regards to the Double Your Vertical Leap System, or are you just lifting weights, you know in a
certain bodybuilding, to-failure type of thing? You've got to look at these things.
If you are going to be doing this to increase your vertical leap, I’d cut out the bike first, you’re
going to add lean muscle, you are definitely going to add lean muscle. I know we don’t talk a lot
about that in regards to vertical leap, but what you are going to see is that you are going to drop
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body fat percentage, and that you are going to add lean muscle simply because the training
component of what we do actually encourages muscle density, fiber density, because of
hyperplasia, that some people don’t think exists, but we are not going to get into that. The fiber
density increases, because the motor units have increased. And, because you get to that high
tension on the tension-release exercises you are actually splitting the fibers, so you increase the
propensity for muscular density, The Window Plan addresses your recovery and addresses the
cell breakdown that occurs within the muscle, which isn’t completely a big deal for vertical leap
athletes, but you will notice that your vertical leap will increase if you go ahead and you apply the
Double Your Vertical Leap System. You have to apply it with rigidity, and you have to apply it…. if
you say this is your last attempt to increase your vertical, start to become a little bit extreme with
it. I wrote a report a couple of weeks ago, I call it the Polarization Method, and I think that you
should probably read that because if you want to prioritize yourself, you like to do this, you like to
do that, you like to do a bit of this, then it’s not going to work out for you. You need to be getting
to a point where you can say, “O.K. I’m going to go all out for the vertical stuff, and I am going to
do it properly.”
Moving on here… I’ve got something here about adding the weight, the UPN, these types of
things, o.k. This is from Tasha, O.K.
Tasha: … I’m also using the hypergravity weight belt you told us to use a while back. I’m
currently wearing an extra 15 lbs around my waist, and I also just started doing the super hops.
I’m not completely sure what my vertical is of right now, but I can definitely see improvements in
my vertical, I think around 6 or 7 inches, but I haven’t taken the belt off to see.
Luke: O.K. in terms of that hypergravity weight belt, I‘m going to repeat this again: you cannot
use that and be compromising your UPN's - don’t even bother. Use it and adjust your UPN as you
see fit, but the UPN for most athletes should be adjusted roughly every phase. So the end of
each phase occurs after 5 weeks, we have a little bridge there of the water plyometrics and so on
and so forth, but you need to adjust the UPN, I’d say after each phase, I think that’s what Jason
also tells people that write in to us and so on, so you need to make sure that when you are using
the UPN's, they are not being compromised by you adding the extra weight on the weight belt,
because it is going to nullify the whole thing. O.K. that’s another one…
Tasha: Can you please go into super detail about the UPN's? I’m still not sure I totally grasp them
and maybe, please explain how you find your UPN on the perfect number.
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Luke: The UPN is just as I said, it has got to be uncompromised. You've got, you know the
exercises from the software, the key component there is using your maximum effort at your
maximum height, at your maximum speed, so when you are using these exercises that are
described in the software, in the system, its maximum height, maximum speed, minimum time on
the floor - once either of those or all of those components at once are compromised, you have hit
the point of compromise. That’s it, you minus 1, and you’ve got your Uncompromised
Performance Number.
This is very critical to the entire system. Very critical because the power output exercises
definitely take advantage of the miotatic stretch reflex where the body is lifted off the ground and
upon landing and re-jumping again, as I call it, upon that re-jump there is a quick explosion of
transferred energy from the eccentric portion, the lowering of the landing, back into the concentric
of the lifting up of the jump. So that miotatic stretch reflex is very important, it’s something that we
don’t need to go into because you guys being on this call are probably too far advanced for that
right now and it’s something that is explained within the software as well. I want to go into a
couple more that we have here for tonight…
O.K. this is from Jeff, Jeff's got a couple of questions. He actually has a few questions here, and
we can go into all of them, but I've said to you guys I’m going to be addressing issues as they
relate to the content of the night. O.K. that’s important for the learning process for both yourself,
and for me… so don’t get discouraged if you don’t hear all of your questions, or you don’t hear
your questions or you don’t hear whatever. You’re going to get them, there going to be all woven
into the structure of the course so that you can be satisfied with it. O.K. here is the question, and I
want you to keep listening even if it’s not your question it’s going to allow you to you know, have
that information seep further into your mind so that it changes the way you approach and you
apply the systems the way I describe…
Jeff asks: If time is an issue in the weight room because of competing, practicing, stretching,
eating, sleeping, endurance training…
Hmm, I don’t like that
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Jeff asks: … what exercises should be dropped during the workout? I am speculating that I
should keep the partials and isometrics, and I should drop the explosive 50 % 1RM exercises
which ones should be dropped?
Luke says: O.K. Now let me make a couple of notes on here. The 50 % 1RM exercises that he is
describing are the ones that address Starting Acceleration, the partials address in a certain sense
they address Progressive Acceleration but they actually address strength, and isometrics
definitely address the ability to contract stronger as the movement rises. It is addressing
progressive Acceleration, but because of the time under the load, the time under tension of each
of those movements it’s actually addressing the ability to focus a more intense contraction into
that area or those muscle groups that are being worked, that neurological group that is being
worked, through a certain amount of time. So when the time starts off at 8 seconds in week 1, you
are teaching the body to focus all that electrical charge through that 8 seconds, then it’s 6
seconds, then it’s 4 seconds, you are teaching the intensity of the contraction to increase in a
smaller amount of time, that’s what power is.
Smaller amount of time, more is achieved. O.K. so here Jeff’s speculating that he should keep the
partials and isometrics and drop the explosive 1RM exercises. I wouldn’t be doing that, I would
probably be dropping the partials, the isometrics are very good, you will notice Jeff that through
the structure of the program, and I know your stuff has come up pretty regularly – you’re a tennis
player and these things, and I know that you have had some liaison with us, prior as well. You
should definitely, definitely be keeping the isometrics, and definitely the Starting Acceleration
movements, and if you have to - drop the partials. I hate to say cut any part of the system out. I
don’t think that by using the system you are going to be wearing yourself out, but the partials in a
muscular sense are going to wear the muscle out more then the isometrics, and the Starting
Acceleration movements are.
So I’m thinking that by what your question is, you know this time issue of being in the weight room
and all these other things that you have to do, I’m assuming, based on your question, that you’re
concern is that you’re getting too tired. The partials will wear you out more than the isometrics,
and the Starting Acceleration exercises, so keep the Starting Acceleration exercises there,
because the reason for that is at the base of the movement, you want to be explosive. As a tennis
player you’re basically in a squat when you are returning serve, so you want to be able to explode
quickly out of that, and I’ve taught a number of tennis players, Australian, and so on and so forth
that those Starting Acceleration movements are very important to a tennis player. I know you’ve
got a number of other questions here.
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Jeff asks: Should I do more single-leg exercises since I never am jumping or moving off two legs
in tennis?
Luke replies: I’ve got to question that, I don’t see how you are not moving off two legs, but you
can do some certain single leg movements, but I would focus just on what the structure is of the
system. Try to implement it well where you can. It is important to work the body with both legs, as
it is for single legs because, you know obviously you are a human being with two arms and two
legs, that’s just a neurological function of your body, I guess that’s the frame of reference that I
don’t want you thinking at having that somehow single leg movements are better then double leg
movements. One is not better than the other; both compliment and assist each other, so I want
you to keep it at that.
Moving along now. This is still Jeff asking these questions. I think that a number of these are
brought up by other people so I want to answer these ones here, and that way the people that
have asked the questions previously and have also asked the same questions, we can address it
all in one block. O.K. so the next question is.
Jeff asks: When doing the Starting Acceleration exercise, for example, the High Pulls, should the
feet leave the ground by the momentum caused by the lift or should the feet stay firmly planted no
matter what?
Luke replies: The nature of the Starting Acceleration exercises is that you will probably rise up on
your toes for things like the Box Squat, things like the High Pulls, for a lot of those semi-Olympic
movements that we use with very light weights only to address that Starting Acceleration phase…
you are going to leave the ground a little bit.
Because of the amount of weight that you using, and hopefully with the good form that you are
using this isn’t going to be too much of a stress. So focus on that speed, and that power, that you
need for the Starting Acceleration. Focus on as you’re about to commence the movement on kind
of relaxing your body, whether it’s for the squat always keep your transverse abdominus tight,
whether it’s that Box Squat, just for that split second, feel a calmness - not a relax because I don’t
want you to curve your spine or anything like that - but a calmness that says I’m released, then –
smack – I’m up. I’ve exploded up, that’s what the Starting Acceleration phase is. It’s addressing
that dead start, and that’s the nature of it. So don’t focus on whether your feet are leaving the
ground or not. They won’t leave the ground completely, you will get up on your toes a little bit on
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those ones, but focus on moving rapidly from dead, I mean relaxed, I mean calm, to very, very
instantaneously explosive.
O.K. moving on here…
Jeff asks: If there is one exercise to increase vertical is it still Single Leg Hyperextensions? Why
can’t you do these everyday if you never go over the point of compromise?
Luke: This is a common question, related to the whole UPN nature of things that I discuss in
volume 1. Every kind of coach, and trainer, and athlete, and all these people that I deal with
personally as well, all of these people have asked me “Well if you don’t go beyond the point of
compromise then why don’t we do this ten times a day?”
Well that’s kind of not the point. The point I am making is that, well if I can do it three times a
week, well why can’t I do it five times a week, or why cant I do it every day, seven days a week?
There is no definitive answer for that, I just know what works. I can’t give you the complete
answer on why that might not be the case why these by moving underneath, under the radar of
that compromise, by not crossing it, that you’re not going to affect your body too much, or your
not going to affect it in a damaging way… but irrespective if it’s single leg hyperextensions or not
right now, why can’t you do any of these power output exercises everyday if you never go over
the point of compromise?
My answer to that is for Neurological Facilitation. Now I cannot say completely whether or not
these exercises could be done everyday, or couldn’t, I wouldn’t bother to try it with an athlete to
do it everyday because I know that an athlete, being the kind of people they are, they have a
number of other physical tasks that they undertake in a day even a young athlete, a high school
athlete, so you’re going to get to a point where you are overtraining and the training isn’t going to
be as effective. It still might be efficient, but it’s not as effective, so the point of compromise is a
delicate thing because it’s based on the neurological system which is notoriously, a bodily system
that recovers slowly, actually, so you want to take the time, take a rest day in between or
whatever, and allow your body to give it some time to rest and recover. I mean it’s not the same
as addressing the muscular, you know muscle growth, and muscle repair and things like that,
where 72 hours or 48 hours is what everybody knows - this is a completely different thing so don’t
go thinking like that.
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That that point of compromise is there because you don’t want to cross it. So if you are going to
go out everyday and do a exercise, you are eventually going to hit the point where your
neurological system isn’t going to respond, as it might because it's not getting rested properly, so
it is better to take the rest, than it is to risk tip-toeing the line of tipping over, of tipping over that
point of compromise and not being able to rectify the situation. I would never have anyone doing
these things everyday, I mean let alone someone who is a serious athlete who is undertaking a
number of other tasks. I think that effort can be exerted otherwise than to keep doing UPN
training day in and day out you know?
The other part of the question was if there is one exercise to increase vertical is it still single-leg
hyperextensions? Let me just put it this way, single leg hyperextensions, actually aren't for
increasing vertical leap, they are for increasing single leg athletic power output. Which is basically
running leap, not vertical leap as such, they are much better, I mean obviously like I said to you,
they go hand in hand, but they are much better for addressing the single leg, running, jumping,
running, accelerating, running, cutting movements, than for increasing just straight up and down
standing vertical jump capacity, so I wouldn't say that the single leg hyperextension is the vertical
leap exercise, I think it is the running leap exercise, it is the king of the running leap exercises but
I think that the king of the vertical leap exercises is the maximum height jump. There is no doubt
about that - it's the same movement as the vertical leap, it is not a squat, it is not a deadlift, it is
not a power clean, and it is not a high pull. It's not any of those things, it's something as simple as
the Maximum Height Jump - it's the vertical leap itself - the key exercise for increasing vertical
leap.
Let me get on to a couple of more questions here, I have got an interesting one that everyone is
going to enjoy listening to in a minute but, I want to get onto a couple of other things here, I want
to get onto this and I want to address this, because it discusses one of the major, major myths
that I want to clear up, that I talked about before, this constant thing that pops up everywhere is
this requirement to squat 2x your body weight before you can go out and you can use plyometrics
is an absolute crock of garbage. It is utter B.S. This is a side note about me - if you don't like the
fact that I swear, than that is a problem because sometimes I am going to swear, sometimes I am
going to be real with you. You know this is not, I am not a person who’s full of crap, and I am not
going to stand up here and be all snotty-nosed about how I do things. I do things in a way that
communicates the message to people in the most effective way, and that’s part of it. In terms of
this I've got a question here that addresses a couple of myths, and I want to get into. This is from
Zubin…
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Zubin: Dear Luke, as a short athlete, I am about 5’6, I am at a terrible disadvantage compared to
every body else…
Luke: I will pull you up there, this is incorrect, you are not at a terrible disadvantage, you might be
in a physical stature form, but because of the height of you and the length of your limbs and so on
and so forth because of your height, you are actually able to increase your vertical a lot quicker
than everybody else, that is just the way the neurological system works. Someone with shorter
limbs has the neurological messages sent to the extremities quicker, because the limbs are
shorter, O.K., that’s why guys like Spud Webb, and you know smaller guys can get high leaping
results much quicker than taller athletes generally...
Zubin: Therefore, I have worked very hard to try and increase my vertical leap, I am trying your
program and others based on plyometrics, and explosiveness but I have failed to see much
results with them…
Luke: O.K. so apparently here, I've got a note here that you have just signed in, and you have just
gotten a hold of it, it's probably been a couple of weeks at the most that you, perhaps have used
my system, I am not sure here…
Zubin: I weigh in at around 115 lbs, my standing vertical is 20 inches, my running vertical one leg
is around 25 inches…
Luke: This running vertical stuff, running jump, whatever it is people like to talk about it simply
because, it is higher than their standing vertical, it makes them feel good about it, scrap the whole
what my running vertical thing is, that's garbage. You don’t need to know about it…
Zubin: I wanted to know if I should shy away from plyometrics and start looking towards overall
strength to increase my vertical…
Luke: That’s an interesting question; it's interesting because it is laced with the fact that you are
basing the question on a premise that's incorrect.
By asking the question “I wanted to know if I should shy away from plyometrics and start looking
towards overall strength to increase my vertical”, you are assuming that you need to be at a
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certain strength to have plyometrics be of assistance to you, in increasing your vertical leap.
That's what you are assuming by making that statement.
You have been told a lie and you have probably been told it by someone who appears to know
what they are talking about, when they have very little idea of what it is that they are talking
about. Plyometrics should only be done to the athlete, to the subjective athlete’s capacity. O.K.?
So the athlete who is performing them, the intensity of the plyometrics, should reflect their current
capacity, and their current level. Increasing strength, to increase your vertical leap, is a
fundamental error that is always a re-corrective problem for any athlete. The standard squat, that
squat that says do 5 sets of 5 reps or 6 sets of 2 reps - trying to grunt out as high a weight as you
can - is a fundamental error in athletic training, a fundamental error. In other words, what I am
saying here is Zubin is, don't think that doing that those heavy, those strength based movements,
not power based, but strength based movements are going to somehow ready you for
plyometrics because you have got to hit that magical “squatting 2x your body weight” number.
That's a lie, that's total rubbish.
In fact, I'll take you back to volume 1.1, if everyone can go there on the Double Your Vertical
Leap software, it's volume 1.1, if you just go there now, I'll take you there and I want you go
through the bottom there, where I talk about which exercises allow athletes to exhibit the most
power output, per unit of time.
Now, what you see with that, is that each of these exercises, here - there is the barbell squat, #1,
there is the depth jumps and there is the maximum height jumps, O.K.? They are relative
measures because they are basically the same movement addressing the same jumping capacity
within the same movement of the athlete. It’s a straight up and down movement. Now, the barbell
squat, this is really basic stuff, the barbell squat, does not allow an athlete to nearly enough
power in nearly enough time because #1 the squatter never releases the tension of the weight, so
the weight never leaves the squatters back, the squatter has his feet on the ground the entire
time, and he is under tension the entire time, and the movement - because there is so much
weight on their back, if they are using those traditional, those maximum effort sets - the
movement is very slow... so you have got slow movement, you have got a high time under
tension, TUT, time under tension, and you've got a movement that requires the back to be
proportionally strong with the legs, which an elite within its natural state won't have legs that are
proportionally as strong as their back. This is not to say that the back being strong, isn’t
important, it is to say that where vertical leap is considered, the legs will always be proportionally
stronger than the back. So squats for strength, and I just mean raw strength, just the ability to lift
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as much as possible, is not really that important. It is important to know for your Starting
Acceleration exercises so you can measure your, you can do the Box Squats, and things like
that, the High Pulls, and all of the movements you should know the one rep maxes for. But to
presuppose that you need to somehow increase your strength so you can somehow increase
your vertical is to take a step backwards. It is going entirely against the grain of what it is you
want to do. Just address Power. Cut out the bad things that aren't working for you. I think you
need to go over the Double Your Vertical Leap System again, that’s probably what you need to
do. Being the age, and the height you are and the weight – that’s what you need to do. You have
listed here…
Zubin: … my max squat is 235 lbs I assume my deadlift max is around 200lbs. I am not sure if
strength ties into vertical leap, but I wanted to know your thoughts in order to further my training
and become a better basketball player and athlete. Thanks Zubin.
Luke: I think that's really nice, I think that that’s what the answer is for your question is that you
don't need to focus on that strength component. As long as you can jump, as long as you can and
I mean as long as you can actually jump, like skipping rope, jump on a basketball court, then you
can do proper jump training, because your body already knows how to land itself. So that’s one of
the key important components that we will discuss later on in the week, and that relates to the 50-
inch report, and then tying that in to the 50-Inch Blueprint that we will create as well.
Moving along here…
O.K, I want to get into something else that relates to UPN charts here. It is important that we
understand this UPN stuff, so that no matter what situation comes up, you can apply this to
yourself or to your athletes. There is something that I want to address about UPN's on a whole,
and that's how to adjust the UPN structure, when you complete each phase. You know that I said
before, the UPN is a measurement that's based on your weight, it's based on your ability at the
time, and it is based on how quickly you can and for maximum height you can perform the jump.
As your performance increases, through the phases - this is for any athlete - as their performance
increases, their UPN will naturally adjust because their performance will be better. So what the
athlete needs to do at that time is that I recommend at the end of each phase, which is a 5 week
block, it could be as low as 3 weeks, depending on how advanced the athlete is, but let's just say
it is a default 5-week block that the athlete chooses their UPN from, I say that you need to adjust
the UPN, right.
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Now, the confusion can start, where you know, you have an athlete who has got a UPN with let’s
say 7 when they commence, then their performance increases, and their UPN might go up to 9,
after the first 5 weeks. So... Athlete A has gone from UPN 7 to UPN 9, in his first phase. O.K.,
we’ve got that down. When athlete A does that, does athlete A then go on from the UPN 9 at
week 5, or does athlete A go on from UPN 9 at week 1?
Now that the way that the UPN is structured is that if it is a new measurement, it is a new
measurement. So if you have just freshly found out that you are a UPN 9, you have to start again
at UPN 9 from week 1. You don't necessarily need to do that. The UPN's are structured so that
they are planned out for 15 weeks, increasing your weight and reps over time. I would only
increase the UPN… I would only re-evaluate the UPN if I was a high-end athlete that was making
sure that I was getting results, very quickly. Because otherwise, you know and because otherwise
you are going to keep running into starting over from week 1, because you keep readjusting your
UPN, and you are not actually going to get the intense UPN training that comes towards the last
5-10 week bracket of the UPN charts.
So when you adjust your UPN's and when the UPN is new, you have to start from week 1 again.
But for high-end athletes, and professional athletes, that's probably a better structure simply
because you are not putting too much stress on the UPN component, and for another reason - for
the high-end athletes, and for athletes that are under a lot of stress consistently - the UPN
training isn’t where the most leverage is, it is the Progressive Acceleration training where the
most leverage is. So don't worry about that too much. If you are a regular athlete though, you can
check your UPN's and so on and so forth adjust your weight, and with each phase, but try to get
to those intense sets toward the end of each chart, because they really force your neurological
capacity to respond heavily and to respond to the rigor, and to the requirement for the ATP
system to rejuvenate itself even quicker. O.K. so that's a probably a point that needs to be
cleared up on UPN's for now.
In terms of timing, what have we got here? I want to make sure that everything is covered for
today, so, let's just go through… let's just go through this to make sure. I just want to make sure
of it, of addressing all the UPN stuff that can compliment what we discussed earlier on today.
I think that for today we are done. I want you to understand, I want you to take with you now that
the UPN is a system that is based on that point of compromise, and not going past it. That
doesn't mean that an athlete can use it all the time and that doesn't mean that it is necessarily the
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greatest advantage point for athletes, especially pro athletes. I don't think that, the greatest
leverage in training is for UPN's with pro athletes - it can be, but there is a point where
Progressive Acceleration training, the ability to accelerate through the entire range of the jumping
motion, as opposed to just at the bottom of it, I said previously was something that we
subconsciously turn off, that the UPN training is important just to regular athletes, So get that in
your head, for the pro's it’s of course equally important because it's a function of time, it's a
measure, but the point of leverage for the high end athlete, for the collegiate athlete, is definitely
with Progressive Acceleration Training.
Tomorrow, I am going to be taking a step further from this. This has largely been a clarification of
the entire Double Your Vertical Leap System, and establishing that frame of reference and that
framework from where we can go from here. What you need to with that is… we need to get that
into our heads. So tonight, I want you to go over your notes again, I want you to have a look at
what it is that I was saying, make sure that you were following me on the submissions that I went
through, I want you to just think about building this foundation on the correct premise, how we
have had to build the framework, based on removing old thoughts, and replacing them with new
thoughts. This is important because you have been so conditioned as athletes, and as coaches,
and trainers, for years and years and years into this “Rocky” mentality, this Rocky Balboa of “train
until you drop”, it's Larry Bird, it's you know even, even now recently, you've got the kind of
bodybuilding syndrome re-entering into training where people are seeing the body with the eyes
instead of with the mind. This isn’t what we need to do; we need to start seeing the body with the
mind, instead of with the eyes. We have to see it as this electrical unit, that where electricity is cut
off, performance is reduced - because electricity can be short circuited at any spot throughout the
body.
Training is holistic; training is something that addresses each component of the movement of the
leap, of the movement of complete and explicit power. Those components are: Starting
Acceleration, that ability to rise and snap from dead nothing to explosion. Progressive
Acceleration, to not only rise, but to as you rise, keep getting faster as you rise. Water is
incredibly important for that. Power Output training, the ability to force the body into a power
response as, as a function of the athlete’s subjective capacity, their subjective abilities and their
ability to enhance their training by a factor of time. Fixation and Stabilization which is simply you
know the alignment of the wheels of the athlete and being able to make them perform through
one neurological pathway, one effort through the least resistance from sway, or shaking, or lack
of stability, and then Recoordination in the final part of which neurologically wires the body and
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allows it to restructure itself in accordance with the prior training implementations with the Starting
Acceleration, Progressive Acceleration, Power Output, it allows the body to rewire those, and
incorporate those improvements from the training session, and then apply them to the real world,
the real life, the real game, training situations and game situations.
I think we are going to wind up for tonight for now. Tonight has been largely not just a review but
a clarification of things, it is something that has taken the Double Your Vertical Leap System as it
stands, and it has just gone that level underneath. What I need you to do is go over your night’s
notes, go over it again have a look, have a think about Mandate 2 and then think also about
where I might be going with Mandate 3. It is important for you to think of Mandate 3 not as an
extension of tonight, but as another part of the same stuff that we’ve gone through tonight. It's not
different, it's not another level above, it's another view that will allow this thing to become more
clear for you. Because I can tell you, I know what it is that I am teaching you. I know what it is that
is going to make this machine tick for us this week, and it’s not thinking that one thing needs be
learned, therefore I can learn the next thing – no. It's going to be this thing of here is this view of
it, here is that view of it, here is this view of it, here is this view of it… and it is all the same thing, it
is all leading to this ability to adjust the training through each of the modalities and through the
athlete’s life, and adjust the training through the athlete's season, through the athlete's
improvements over time, so that this can not only be just this one off program that you use, but it
can be a lifestyle for the athlete, for years to come.
That’s important for you trainers and coaches out there, it is equally important for your athletes
out there as well. So have a think about what's gone on tonight, and then I want you to think
about it in light of it, I want you to have a look later on tonight, at mandate 3 or tomorrow morning
just look at Mandate 3, and think where I might be going with that tomorrow night.
There is going to be a lot more of the submissions that I will go into tomorrow night, so I'll be
ready for those. Also what I need you to do tonight is I need you to go back to the MasterClass
Submission Portal, everyone that’s listening right now, I want you to go to Submission portal.
… And I want you to give us some feedback of what you thought of tonight. I want to hear your
comments, I want to hear your how this is going for you, I want to hear how fantastic it was
tonight - I know we got started a little late but let's say 5 minutes in, this is something I want to tell
all of you while you are here: 6:00 p.m., that’s when we want to start. We want to get into this, we
have got a lot to cover this week - we have laid the ground work now tonight.
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You are going to - I know I even feel like it now - but tonight you are going to walk away from this,
feeling like this has toasted my brain. That's OK, it is going to hit you like a barrage, and the way
that the Gestalt learning method works, is that it hits you like a barrage from all the angles.
What's going to happen is as this repetitively takes place within you, this is why I insisted on
getting you the CD's as well, getting you the manual, the transcript manual so you can go over it,
it’s going to seep into your mind, so that you just don’t take 10 percent out of it - you actually
could go and teach it yourself.
This is what the MasterClass is for, this is what I have always told the MasterClass, so we can
have independent athletes, independent coaches, and independent trainers out there. Alright
guys go to the MasterClass Submission Portal, tell me what you think, I want to hear from every
single one of you, that's on the seminar series tonight.
I’m going to be a be leaving you very soon, until that time I thank you for tonight, I pray God
blesses you, and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow night. Again go and visit that MasterClass
Submission Portal, tell us what you think.
We will be getting prepared for tomorrow night, basically straight away now, and we will be taking
your comments into consideration for tomorrow night as we build the Gestalt and develop this
thing and introduce some new topics that have never been gone into before. Alright, take care, I
will speak to you soon…
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About Luke Lowrey
“It Is Without Question That Luke Lowrey Is The World’s
Leading Expert In Performance Enhancement…”
- Chinese Olympic Organization
Luke Lowrey is the founder of TheVerticalProject.com and the creator of the “Double Your
Vertical Leap” performance-enhancement software and training system – the only system in the
entire world to incorporate his self-devised UPN™ mathematical algorithm technology.
A former professional-level basketball player himself
(Victorian Titans, 2000-2001), Luke developed the UPN system
to dramatically increase his own vertical leap to an outstanding
42 inches, before suffering a career-ending injury. As fate
would have it, Luke aroused such an interest in his training
system that he very quickly had numerous international
coaches, trainers and elite athletes seeking his expertise from all
around the world – many of whom remain on his client list
today and demand strict non-disclosure contracts to prevent the
release of their association because his methods are so
effective.
In the space of just five years, Luke has proven himself to be at
the very front of athletic performance-enhancement, with many
freely comparing him to the Godfather of Eastern bloc athletic
and plyometric training Dr. Yuri Verkhoshansky and to
outstanding Polish Olympic coach Tadeusz Starzynski. A former professional basketball player
in his home country of Australia, after a series of career-ending injuries, Luke launched his own
client advising service in 2003.
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Most notably, Lowrey's company - The Vertical Project - his revolutionary UPN™ training
system, The Window Plan™ recovery guideline and Double Your Vertical Leap™ advanced
software system, have served over 7,000 elite athletes worldwide with a further 50,000
subscribing to his website, while he has publicly worked alongside such luminaries as EAS co-
founder, author Shawn Phillips, and the world's #1 sports hypnotherapist, Pete Siegel.
Lowrey's discovery of the UPN algorithm has been hailed "the greatest advance in vertical
jumping technology" and "the defining point between performance enhancement of yesterday and
performance enhancement of tomorrow" and has meant that for the very first time any athlete of
any capacity can literally plot-and-predict their performance increases in the most revered athletic
feats: the vertical jump, and the sprint.
Currently residing in Los Angeles, Luke also advises a number of professional and elite sporting
teams and associations through his PrivatePro service - all of whom demand strong Non-
Disclosure Agreements to prevent him from ever releasing their names and details, ranging from
the NFL, NBA, UEFA, ATP tour, Major League, NCAA, English Premier League and Olympic
levels.
Lowrey is currently involved and actively working on a number of projects; from his client
advising, to software production and various online projects, to the development of new athletic
performance systems. With his renown for being on the cutting edge of performance nutrition and
supplementation, Lowrey was recently invited to be an Advisory Board member of Elite
Performance Laboratories, LLC; overseeing their Adenotrex product development and athlete
testing.
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