MasterClass Day 2 Training Advanced

(1)

Copyright ©, The Vertical Project. All Rights Reserved In Perpetuity.

Unauthorized Dissemination, Copying or Selling Strictly Prohibited By International Copyright Laws

www.TheVerticalProject.com

Day 2 – Training

Vertical Leap Beyond Belief The 50-Inch Blueprint: Day 2

With Luke Lowrey

(2)




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.

IMPORTANT – Disclaimer, Copyright And Legal Notice:

No responsibility for injurious damage, in a physical, health or career capacity to any person who reads

and then applies the topics discussed herein is accepted, either by the author, Mr. Luke Lowrey, or by

the provider of this information, The Vertical Project. Part-taking in any form of physical training,

dietary and/or supplementation regime discussed in the written materials herein, without being

specifically and personally advised to do so, is entirely at the individual's risk. Furthermore, before

part-taking in any physical activity and/or dietary and/or supplementation regime, both The Vertical

Project and Mr. Luke Lowrey strongly advise that individuals seek personal medical advice and

medical clearance to do so.

The material provided within the report is owned solely by The Vertical Project. Any unauthorized

dissemination, copying and/or selling of this “Transcript User Manual”, in whole or in part, is strictly

prohibited by laws relating to The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C., section 512,

and any other related international copyright laws and will be aggressively pursued to the fullest extent

of the law.

Inquiries contact: [email protected]

The Vertical Project & Lowrey Group International Offices

@ Australia

410 Elizabeth St, Box 12244

Melbourne, 8006

AUSTRALIA

@ USA

9701 Wilshire Blvd, 10th Floor

Beverly Hills, CA 90212

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

(3)




(4)




MasterClass – Training Syllabus: Day 2

"And welcome, today is Day 2 of the MasterClass 2006... Last night was a big night for

different reasons. Besides building the Gestalt, we were building the framework, and the frame of

reference for the rest of the week. Tonight we are adding some of the meat to that foundation that

we have laid. Some new elements that are going to allow you to develop something that we want

you to achieve out of this MasterClass which is what we call the “Athletes Autonomy”.

Now in terms of the Athletes Autonomy, what I am discussing there is the ability for the athlete,

the coach, or the trainer, to be able to read their own training situation based on the 5 major

components of power development and then with these tools and techniques that I am going to

introduce for the first time tonight, be able to adjust your own training systems, and your own

training regimes and modalities, new modalities that you can introduce to your training regime as

you see fit. Autonomy, because it means that in a large sense, not so much your responsibility,

but the actual function of the training is put back into your own hands, where you can see and

read how this training system is set up, and then you can adjust it as you see fit. This frees you, I

guess, in a certain sense from having to always be coming back, always be going back to one

thing, or to learn more necessarily.

I wanted this to be the first and only MasterClass that I opened up to the public for the simple fact

that I wanted to introduce the public, the general athletes who are part of this, to this notion of the

Athletes Autonomy or so that from hence forth and this time forward, the athlete that chooses to

come in on this will see that they can control and manipulate each of the different 5 components

that we discussed as part of their training regime, to their own fit. I just want to wait for a couple of

people to get through and I want everyone seated by 6 o’clock.

I want to hit into the content now... in terms of review of the major points that I went over last

night, I want to discuss those 5 major movement phases from the frame of reference that we are

going to build on to tonight. So instead of discussing Starting Acceleration, Progressive

Acceleration, Power Output, Fixation/Stabilization, and Recoordination on there own merit, I

want to discuss them in light of how I am going to introduce these new concepts of Bridging,

Weaving, Base Repetition, and this concept of UPN Plyometrics. Now I’ll also be discussing

Reverse Appropriation which isn’t so much a technique, but it’s something that you need to

know as well.

(5)




So, as we get into this tonight, in the Starting Acceleration phases of the movement, it is the

commencement of the movement, the bottom of the movement, not the downward portion of the

movement, but the bottom lifting upwards. This is important for us to remember tonight because

it’s a component that can carry through all of these four major new topics that we are going to

discuss tonight. Progressive Acceleration the same - Progressive Acceleration your going to see,

it’s going to be revealed to you tonight, just how much of a leverage point that is, especially for

elite professional athletes, yet also for athletes that are younger, that have very hectic schedules

and so on, and so forth. The main thing that we have noticed through the MasterClass

Submission Portal, especially in regards to regular athletes, is that people want to know how they

can incorporate an effective system whilst doing all the other things that are going on with their

life and training and so on and so forth.

Now obviously, your vertical leap is going to be maximized when you are in the off-season, or

that’s the only type of training you can do. This is obvious, and it’s natural the way it’s going to

happen. But, in life, and sport, that’s not how it works. So I’m going to introduce that tonight, and

I’m going to address that later on in session 2 tonight, but for now we just want to go over these,

these key points and especially in regards to Progressive Acceleration – it’s going to be a big one

tonight, it’s going to come up a lot, and you are going to see how that becomes a leverage point

for you. Power Output training, in regards to this is, the UPN is going to be applied to plyometrics,

down there. This is something we have been exploring a fair bit recently. It’s something that has

been giving some outstanding results, and it’s something definitely you know going into tonight,

especially in relation to the 50-inch report, it’s a component of the training framework that I said

with every athlete that has hit a 50 inch vertical leap they have all used these 4 major, these 4

major components that I am going to introduce tonight for the first time.

Fixation/Stabilization- again that’s the car and its wheels, the aligned wheels driving power

through its most effective, and efficient pathway; driving the electrical current through its most

effective and efficient pathway, so the athletes channeling most of it, and the majority and lineage

of their electrical energy upwards and into the vertical leap movement. Recoordination is going to

play a role here, especially when we get to things like Bridging, and Weaving, and techniques like

this. Again, tonight is about the Athletes Autonomy. These techniques tonight, I hope that as we

introduce them tonight, that it is an introduction and an in-depth discussion. Mandate 3 clearly

says that it’s not giving all the answers tonight. I’m throwing a Gestalt at you with this. Each of

these things I am going to build a Gestalt on, and as we wrap up the week on Friday, all of these

will be tied into one concise strict thing. The elephants ears, its tusks, its tail, its feet, all of these

(6)




things will all-of-a-sudden become the elephant. So allow this stuff to just hit you. It’s going to hit

you hard tonight, because it’s different, because it is new, so just keep going with it, eventually

you are going to see how it all ties in at the end, O.K.?

Carrying on here, in relation to these five components of power development, you are going to

see that they have been specifically set in concrete in the Double Your Vertical Leap System.

Tonight I am going to tell you that - and this is the first time I’ve introduced this through to the

regular crowd, with my professional clients, this has been different previously - but it’s the first

time I am going to introduce the fact that these 5 components are flexible and they are not set in

concrete as they are set in concrete in the Double Your Vertical Leap System. Each component

can have an emphasis on it at different points.

In the Double Your Vertical Leap System, we have one Sample System that the athletes use. You

will have seen that in volume 3.3 through volume 3.5. It’s a base system that whilst it works

fantastic, it generates the results that everyone is looking for because in the end it is all about

results, having said that, these 5 components are not just in concrete, they can be adjusted and

therefore you can create different leverage points in the training results, depending on the time, or

the season, or on the specific and subjective level, and you know recovery capacity of the athlete

given.

Again, this is hammering at the notion of the Athletes Autonomy, I want to get that across. I want

you guys to become Autonomous out of this, to be a responsible Autonomous athlete. Same for

you with the coaching. When you are training athletes, by having these different components that

we are going to introduce to you tonight, the Bridging, Weaving, Base Repetition, and UPN

plyometrics that we are going to introduce to you tonight, these are going to be tools that upon

viewing the athletes, and upon getting feedback upon where they are at in there recovery, seeing

there results over time you are going to be able to see how they are, and how you can insert

these different kinds of components.

In terms of them being flexible, you are going to notice that, I’ve already said tonight, that

Progressive Acceleration is one that’s going to be big tonight. The same with Starting

Acceleration, you are going to notice a couple of different things about it, but Progressive

Acceleration is really the key leverage point of the evening, so I want to get into that. In terms of

Recoordination, that’s going be one that’s probably going to be important to this evening, but at

the same rate, because of the nature of Bridging and Weaving specifically, Recoordination will

kind of naturally take its course within the reference of these two. Bridging and Weaving are really

http://www.theverticalproject.com/v3



(7)




the big ones that we are going to be getting into tonight, and I want to address them specifically

and then later on, we can tie in how each of these components is going to fit into this blueprint of

the 50-Inch Blueprint.

Now, in light of this then, and using this as our point of reference in order to move forward from,

we have to build this idea of what “The 50-inch Blueprint” is, and then basically add the structure

and the components to it. With Bridging and Weaving, these are two techniques that you are

going to find work to allow an athlete to recover, yet at the same time allow them to build up their

neurological system, and their neurological functioning to a rate that they can still achieve results

yet at the same time, be recovering from a lot of the high impact activity - so we are going to get

to those in a minute. I mean I have always been partial to creating or even forcing situations that

are void, completely void of opinion, and instead are based on facts that exist irrespective of

whether you or I believe it or like it or not. It’s the only way that these types of training modalities

exist, and it’s the only way that any type of athlete can reliably and measurably predict their

performance increases over time, and their performance enhancements over time. So having

said that, and discussing this notion of Progressive Acceleration, I want to move on to the second

point on Mandate 3, go with me there now to the “Revised approach to water plyometrics and

there use in Progressive Acceleration”.

O.K., you have heard me say it tonight already, Progressive Acceleration is going to be a key one

tonight and I want to expand on that and describe exactly why this is a key leverage point;

especially for elite athletes, but also for those of you who have hectic schedules that those of you

have to commit to physically, and I mean even time wise, because there is a big time crunch with

people, especially athletes that are at school or that are at college, and so on and so forth. I mean

even travel schedules for Professional Athletes.

So… when I am discussing water plyometrics, I always discuss training in the water, in terms of

its benefits, because for years and years probably for the studies I have seen, water training goes

back to the (19)60’s, from what I have seen and what I should say - from what I recall - and

nobody has been able to put a clear and specific cap and explanation on why water training is

important or so effective for athletes. Now, once you can “unlock” that, you can see how and why

it should be used regularly for athletes, especially elite athletes, but how it address on the flipside

of it, that component of Progressive Acceleration I have been harping on for a while now.

(8)




So, what I want to do is, I want to take you to volume 1.3 of the Double Your Vertical Leap

System, I said to you, I said to you that I want to discuss the Progressive Acceleration component

of water training, so go to 1.3 - volume 1.3. So, once you have opened volume 1.3, I want you to

scroll down it, I want you to scroll down it, and you’ll hit a point where there is a yellow

highlighting of “Point of Compromise” in talking marks. When you hit that “point of compromise” in

talking marks, I want you to scroll down a couple of paragraphs, you will see that there is training

beyond the point of compromise will injure athletes, scroll below, I want you to hit the paragraph

that says “Static contraction lifting through different planes of movement”.

O.K., so I am going to wait for you guys to get there, it’s about 5 paragraphs below, it says:

Static contraction lifting through different planes of movement, at a various stage of a lift, is

important too. For example, with a bench press - at the start point, 2 inches from the chest, and

then at the peak contraction point…

O.K., that’s how we have addressed Progressive Acceleration using, not a movement tool, but a

static contracting tool. So, instead of this being a full range of motion of movement. We have

blocked off the movement at different stages and we have made sure that the static contraction -

using the peak contraction technique - is addressing each of the different phases of the

movement, broken into 3 stages. That’s nice; it does address Progressive Acceleration, but not

completely. As you see, we go on for safety. Without a doubt, static contraction sets should be

done against an immovable object. There is a lot of discussion about this; I still stand by the

notion of the immovable object, opposed to an elastic object. The reason for this is, you can apply

the contraction at the same level of intensity at any time - when you’re talking about using, you

know elastic objects, or elastic tools and devices, and so on and so forth, you are going to get a

different contraction at each time. You don’t want to do that. When we are discussing static

contraction training, the major drawback of that has always been the fact that over time people

might have developed soreness from it, but they have been contracting for much longer periods

of time then we are talking about, I am talking about 8 second contractions, 6 second

contractions, these are things that you will know from volume 3.1, so don’t worry too much about

that, because that argument is irrelevant to what I am teaching here.

Move onto the next paragraph;


(9)




Static contraction training, basically teaches maximum contraction, tension, and thus power

during various stages of the movement, that’s why I like it. It’s got a fundamental place in lifting

and a versatile power developing regime. It’s so important because static contraction training

addresses Progressive Acceleration which is very hard to train for. Now we move into the next

phase of Progressive Acceleration which is water…

This is what I want to hit on, the only other way to train exclusively for Progressive Acceleration is

in water, in a pool. O.K., you should be in volume 1.3 right now about 2/3 of the way down the

page;

… the only other way to train exclusively for Progressive Acceleration is in water, in a pool. A pool

is the only place where as you lift higher and higher, the weight that is bared is actually reduced.

The gravity of the water, if you will, decreases…

Let me explain that, because that’s the key to the whole entire water argument. The key is the

fact that as you are squatting in the pool - whether you are at, lets say, belly-button level deep, or

you are at shoulder level depth - as you are squatting or jumping up in that vertical leap

movement, what you are going to find is the water and the load that is bared on you as you are

squatting low, is released, as you move upwards. Because of that, it’s a poor Starting

Acceleration movement, isn’t it? Think about it, you are at the bottom of the movement, the

water’s above the majority of your body - it might be at your shoulder level. You have got that

water that is all around you weighing you down. You won’t be able to initiate the contraction at the

bottom fast, but as you squat through the movement upwards, the water is being removed from

you, and you are moving faster through the range of motion.

It’s very important that this whole water training component is grasped so that we can address

Bridging, Weaving, Base Repetition, and UPN plyometrics properly, because water training - this

Progressive Acceleration, particularly with water plyometrics and water training - is very important

to the leverage of where you can get results where you may have not have prior been able to

especially given your time constraints and other training commitments. So let’s keep going on this

for a minute…

… A pool is the only place where as you lift higher and higher, the weight that is bared is actually

reduced. The gravity of the water, if you will, decreases. That never occurs in life; gravity only

increases…

(10)




O.K. again, that is important, because you know from that bodily “braking system” that we

discussed last night in the regular squat, if your body didn’t subconsciously “brake” itself, it would

keep rising up. It would keep going; it would jump off the floor. The fact is when you do those

Starting Acceleration Box Squats; you stop yourself from leaving the floor. Your body

subconsciously “brakes” itself. Let’s read on…

… For maximal power, you need Progressive Acceleration, because training in squats, in earthly

gravity, guarantees that you are progressively decelerating. If you are Progressively Accelerating,

you wouldn’t stop when you got to the top of the movement. The body imposes its own braking

system, if you will. With a neurological system that is trained to move faster as it approaches the

top of the movement - as opposed to slower - you generate more power, sooner…

Read that one again!

With a neurological system that is trained to move faster as it approaches the top of the

movement - as opposed to slower - you generate more power, sooner. With static contraction it is

effectively training each point of the lift to their subjective maximum.

Two different things. O.K.? It might be all Progressive Acceleration in the sense that you’re

training to accelerate and contract as hard as you can, at the end of the movement with the static

contractions. But with the water, Progressive Acceleration is really the point that you can go

through the full range of movement, and you can actually move faster as you get to the top of the

movement, than you do move slower. So that is very very important stuff. That’s how water

training works - we want to get to the point where you are seeing, the water training that’s used

as a bridge in volume 3.3, is not something that’s just a fun little gimmick or anything like that. It’s

something that should be used, and should be used especially more often for athletes with hectic

schedules.

In describing the water training, I want to also discuss it in light of the UPN power output training

regime. Simply because the water training, in essence, is removed from a UPN expression. In

other words, because of the way that water training works and because of the way that different

stressors are placed on the different components of power development as I said - it basically

only addresses Progressive Acceleration - it is removed from having a UPN, or from the UPN

system, being able to influence or direct how water training should be appropriated. In that sense,

(11)




training in the water will largely mean that you can complete more repetitions without taxing your

body, simply because you don’t take all the downward load, and all those things like miotatic

stretch reflexes and the high-impact that is often associated with UPN training and, more

specifically, plyometrics. All of that stuff is absent from water training, so you in a general sense

and even in a subjective sense, will perform more reps in the water, than you will be able to do

say in less reps to something that is applicable in a UPN. The same goes for water training,

though that goes for regular training UPN training, all of this stuff. With water training, you do not

want to go beyond the point of compromise. You don’t want to overexert or train the athlete to

failure. I’m talking to athletes and coaches tonight, so I am going to move from referring between

one and the other, but when you are training these athletes in the water, you don’t want them to

hit that point where you know, when these reps that they are doing in the water is tiring them out.

An athlete after every training session, it is my firm belief, that they should feel light-footed, they

should feel able to be explosive because it is a neurological function that they are training. We

don’t want to burn them out. If we burn them out, we are guaranteeing that we are not training an

athlete at its maximal contractile speed. This is a neurological game that we are playing. I want

you to listen to that again… if we are training an athlete, to the point of failure, or even beyond the

point of compromise. The point of failure is well beyond the point of compromise; it’s much after

the point of compromise. If we are training them between compromise and failure, we are training

the athlete to use a lesser neural contractile pathway - we don’t want to do that. So all of these

training sessions, I’m not talking about skill sessions, or team sessions - I’m talking about vertical

leap training, specifically Power Output training specifically, Speed Training specifically, I’m

discussing these “athletic” modules of training. You don’t want to train the athlete - ever - past the

point of compromise, and certainly never to failure because neurologically the athlete is going to

suffer.

So that is a major reason why you’ve got to be careful with water training because it does

encourage the ability to perform higher reps, yet at the same rate because athletes are so

conditioned into this line of thinking that they have to walk off the court completely ruined to have

achieved anything, or walk away from the training facility completely ruined to achieve anything,

that is something that we want to steer away from.

So moving on now, I want to introduce, basically… based on that point of reference where

Progressive Acceleration is introduced as a leverage point here, I want to start to discuss and

introduce those foundation principals of the 50-inch Blueprint, and discuss the goal structures of

it.

(12)




This is point 3 on Mandate 3. If you can go there with me now… it is point # 3.

So we are moving on to how these principals of the 50-Inch Blueprint can be achieved. O.K.,

there are 5 major things; 4 things that I am going to discuss tonight, the 5th is maybe an add on.

It’s not really crucial to what it is that we are discussing but it is important all the same. These 4

components of the 50-Inch Blueprint, are diverse to the Double Your Vertical Leap System, they

are not included in it, they are not discussed. They are used, I was using them even back then

when I wrote it, but I didn’t discuss it. These 4 major points, I want to discuss, and that are going

to allow us to build this blueprint of Bridging, Weaving, Base Repetition, and UPN Plyometrics.

O.K.

All of these techniques have been applied to athletes that have hit a 50 inch vertical leap… that

I’ve seen. This is where we need to get, this is what we need to get going on. In terms of having a

50-Inch Blueprint, I discussed last night, that there is no one way for the athlete to do x, y, and z

things - to have “athlete a” do x, y, and z things and “athlete b” to do x, y, and z things. If they are

both doing the same things, I don’t believe then that the athletes are going to hit a 50 inch vertical

leap, just by doing the same things as each other, this is not what I am saying. The 50-Inch

Blueprint is as much about the athletes own autonomy separate, and be able to read themselves

separate from me, as it is about getting them to the goal of 50 inches.

So, autonomy is strictly and strongly tied in to this notion of the 50-Inch Blueprint, and autonomy

in that sense means the ability to stand alone, the ability for you to know, adjust and see each of

these training elements for yourself and see how they can be applied to your own training goals,

and your own training structure.

O.K., so in relation to that, it is best that we discuss Bridging first. Moving on to Point # 4 of the

learning syllabus today. We are discussing Bridging, the technique of Bridging…

Bridging is training segmental schedules that connect or bridge one major training phase

to another. Let me read it again, you should write this down.

Training segments or schedules that connect or Bridge one major training phase to

another.


(13)




O.K., that sounds good Luke, fine and dandy, what’s so new in that, Luke? What are you talking

about? La-di-dah , La-di-dah, La-di-dah!! Well, let me just say this, the hallmark of any incomplete

or bad program is one that lacks a continuity bridge, this notion of a bridge that I am going to

discuss with you. However, it is very rare - and especially in performance training - to ever see

people using these bridges. It’s very rare - people don’t use them!

So what is a Bridge? Well in the notion of it being the training segment or schedule that connects

one training phase to another. Let me use an example. If you go to volume 3.3, we will move to

volume 3.3, if you go there now, I'll just let you catch up with me, Volume 3.3. If you get to

Volume 3.3, you can scroll all the way to the bottom and you will see that there is the schedule for

week 5. Now weeks 1, 2, 3 and 4 all follow a similar line, a similar training line, week 5 is water

training that is used to cap, or to finish, or to complete the phase. That’s a bridge, that’s what a

bridge is.

You very rarely see bridges, but bridges have a number of features that we need to get into and

they are important to every athlete. Every athlete. They are very important, simply because they

allow them to move from one phase to the next, and to do so in a way that the body can adjust to

the training schedules; and do so in a way that allows the neurological system to recover, move

forward, and then be further challenged again by the next phase. So let me get into the key

features then as to what Bridging really is all about.

Bridge components:

- So, the typical bridge, goes for roughly 5-10 days. Write this down, a typical bridge goes

for 5-10 days. You will notice that Bridge that we use here is basically a 6 day, a 5-6 day bridge.

That’s important to know, because when you are discussing these bridges, you don’t want them

to be too small, but you don’t want them to be very big, either. You want them to be at a point

where the athlete does not adjust to the bridge as a training function in itself. O.K.? So do not let

the athlete adjust physiologically, or neurologically, to the bridge as a training component in itself.

5-10 days maximum, that’s what a bridge is.

- It is signified - and I should say it’s also a hallmark of it - but it’s signified by a lighter

stress load in terms of volume. O.K. so what you got here with the week 5 bridge here in

Volume 3.3, you will see that there is a 3 day training structure there. Previously we were using 6

day training structures which you can do with UPN training because you don’t go past the point of

compromise. But you have gone from a 6 day schedule in weeks 1-4, to a 3 day schedule in

(14)




week 5 what is only a 7 day schedule. The intensity, can be variable on that, O.K.? So whether

the intensity is up or down, that’s fine. But you remember - the Bridge is to allow, that bridge, that

time between, for the neurological system, to pick itself up again and go into a higher stress level.

So, it’s signified by a higher stress load, in terms of volume, and the intensity can be variable,

however a bridge should rest the common training stressors. When I say stressors, I mean that s-

t-r-e-s-s-o-r-s. So when I am discussing that, we want the bridge to rest the high impact training

modalities associated with Power Output training, you know, plyometrics, Starting Acceleration, a

lot of this high-impact jarring that’s often associated with straight up and down vertical leap

training in the vertical plane, and indeed anything that is based on power. OK.

- It gives the trainer, the coach, or the athlete the ability to recover, from the wear and

tear of high impact training, and then asses the bodily turnover that occurs. So, why I say 5

- 10 days is because depending on the length of the training regime that has happened previous

to that, it might be 4 weeks, it might be 3 weeks, it might even be as low as 1 week, but we are

not going to get into that right now, I don’t think that that’s the point of this. It might be as low as a

week, but let’s say the training regime is being 3 to 8 weeks, I wouldn’t go much past 8 weeks -

for one, similar pattern of training, there is no point. O.K. What I am talking about with bodily

turnover is how the athletes recovered. So if an athlete has done 8 weeks of consistent training,

on the same program you might want to give them a bridge that goes for 10 days. We’ve got a lot

of athletes out here, but for coaches, I am giving you this notion that the athletes autonomy here,

so I want you to pick this up. The longer the training modality here that has occurred, the

previous, the longer the training regime and structure that has occurred previous to a bridge, the

longer the bridge should be. So if you trained for 8 weeks on the same principle, and using the

same pattern, for example if you look in volume 3.3, if you just did 8 weeks of week 1-4, and then

week 5-8 you did for 8 weeks the same thing - you would put a longer bridge in. You would put a

bridge of let’s say 10 days in. The reason for that is you want to asses the athlete’s bodily

turnover. What do I mean by bodily turnover? You want to assess their ability, their ability to rest

and respond to the training, you want to assess their ability to have been able to have gained

results from that training, so a longer bridge, for a longer training period; make a lot of sense,

correct? Good. Similarly, a shorter bridge for a shorter training period makes a lot of sense. So if

you are to go as low as 3 weeks, you might only have a bridge that goes for 4 days. Typically the

bridges will be 5-10 days though. So, you may have an athlete, and you may be an athlete that

has a training regime for 3 weeks, similarly, you may have a bridge that goes for 3 or 4 days, the

point I am getting across is this bridge is to allow you to recover and assess your bodily turnover.

You want to be at the point where after a bridge you can measure your training structure, where

you are at currently with your training, and then you can assess your goals and move forward.

(15)




What do I mean by that? In terms of the Double Your Vertical Leap System, I am going to always

refer back to that because it’s in front of us, but for volume 3.3, you've got a 5 week schedule

there. The first 4 weeks is where a majority, you’re going to see a majority of your results. The 5th

week, you are going to see as a consolidation point, it’s the bridge. This doesn’t mean that you

are not getting results in there, because you very much are still going to be achieving results in

that 5th week, however… however… what you are going to see is, after that 5th week has

occurred, after that bridge has occurred, you are going to be able to accurately measure your

UPN's and re-adjust them for the next phase, should you need to, and you are going to be able to

measure your vertical leap, measure things like that, because you are not so worn down

physically, and you are going to get a much more accurate perspective out of it, O.K.?

- So that’s why the Bridge is crucial, because it assesses your bodily turnover, and it

assesses where your trainings are and allows you to assess it accurately and then take

steps forward. So every type of training regime, no matter what it is that your writing, no matter

what it is that you are using should end with phase bridges that as I said before and I told you to

write down “training segments or schedules that connect one phase to another.” That’s a bridge.

Again, I said it’s used as a point of consolidation to temporarily rest the nervous system, the

muscular system, and still provide active stimulation. This type of training isn’t just allowing you to

go dead, you are actually addressing Progressive Acceleration very heavily here and that is very

advantageous because you are going to come out of the water, and you are going to notice your

ability to lift is different. A number, a large number of all my athletes notice that, and that’s

important. So, this water training thing is very important. O.K. All these Bridges that I discuss in

here, they can all be viewed as Week 5, 10, and 15 of the Sample Program that I have inserted

into the Double Your Vertical Leap System.

I just want you to get this into your head, just to close the Bridging thing for now. I’ve been

repetitive with how it is structured, I have been very repetitive with it, but for now I am not going to

get into anymore about it, simply because I want you to understand that the hallmark of a bad

program is when it does not have one of the continuity bridges that somehow links one phase to

the other. Especially in performance training, especially in performance enhancement and

especially for vertical leap, sprint speed, and Power Output generally;you need to have these

bridges. Tying the Bridging technique in later on, we will see how Bridging can be used.

Moving onto the next one. We’ve got Weaving. Weaving is important. Weaving is a technique…

now I have had arguments back and forth with people about just what Weaving is, how it works,



(16)




how Weaving works, how it can be introduced to Athletes, and what are the actually benefits of it,

you know?

Well, lets get straight into it, Weaving is by definition… let’s hit a definition, I'd like you to write this

down with a pen as well, Weaving, underline it, or something like that, put a colon, Weaving: is

inserting, or intervalling different training parameters and schedules - on purpose - to suit

a specific purpose or goal. Weaving: is inserting or intervalling different training parameters

and schedules - on purpose - to suit a specific purpose or goal. O.K.?

This is an interesting one because a Bridge is something that is used between phases, a Weave,

in terms of training structure, and program structure is different, it is a different thing, it is a

pattern, well not always a pattern, but it’s something that is woven into a training structure at a

regular interval. It may be a schedule, or it may just be a component of training. For the purpose

of this argument, and for this discussion, I’m going to use it as a schedule, O.K.?

There is a number of different of weaves that we need to discuss:

- The first weave is a regular weave, and it’s called a Non-Regulatory Weave, it’s called a

“Regular Weave” – (Non-Regulatory) O.K.? And that’s basically a repetitive, it’s repetitive at

intervals that are predictable and regular in sequence, and it is used regularly for beginning

athletes. O.K. So a regular weave that’s an example, I mean this is where the contention occurs;

“Is a Weave a Bridge?” Well, in a certain sense it is because for a regular Weave you got this

repetitive, predictable formation and sequence, where week 5, week 10, and week 15 in the

Double Your Vertical Leap System are the same. That’s a weave, that’s what you call a Regular

weave, its non-regulatory, in a sense that the athlete doesn’t have to regulate how it works out in

the program, the program has been set, and it’s on a “set and forget” system. O.K? That weave

has been inserted in, based on where an athlete would be generically, as opposed to how the

athlete would be subjectively feeling and responding to the training. These are two different

things. I use four week brackets in a generic sense because most people have a 30-day

response in their body, so I like to use the 30 days, and then insert a Bridge. The 30 days, Bridge,

the 30 days, Bridge - and you get reliable and predictable results like that. However… for

athletes that want to take it beyond and I’m talking about this because we are trying to set up this

50-Inch Blueprint, the weave is more important because... here’s why: here’s the second weave.


(17)




- We have gone from the regular weave which is non-regulatory, to the “Pattern Weave”,

which is what we call (Self-Regulatory) set into a sequence that is either pattern, or pattern set

into an ascending, or descending sequence. O.K. So basically you are weaving in, a component

or a training parameter or schedule that’s occurring in either a descending - meaning or you know

less frequency - or ascending - meaning tighter frequency, higher frequency – of a sequence.

O.K.? This is probably the best way to describe it: Let’s say that “athlete A” does a specific

training regime for 5 weeks, then you weave a different week of training in, then you have 4

weeks and then you weave a different week of training in, then you do 3 weeks then you have a

weave, 2 weeks and a weave. So you see what I mean? That’s what you call a descending

pattern weave, and it’s self-regulatory in the sense that, an athlete based on what part of the

season they are in, it might be the in-season, it might be the off-season, the descending weave

you are much more likely to use in the in season, when you are hitting the in season. So they

might have just come off 4 weeks of training, you weave in a week, then you’ve got 3 weeks of

consistent training, then you weave in another week, then you’ve got 2 weeks you weave in, you

see what’s happening is, the weeks of intense training are growing less and less and less, and

that week of recovery, or bridging training is increasing in frequency… O.K.? The same coming

off an off season and going into a preseason, you do a ascending frequency where you do 1

week of hard training, the next week more recovery type of stuff, 2 weeks of hard training, a week

of a weave, 3 weeks of hard training, a weave - do you see, are you following with that? So the

structure is, screwing down the intensity because your in the season, the athletes are in the

season, and every time I talk about this weave I am basically talking about adding in water

training, a week of water training or a segment, I don’t want you to think necessarily in weeks but

a segment of water training, so you might have, 4 segments of strict power output training, then

one segment of water training, 3 segments of strict power output training, water training, one

segment, 2 segments, that’s a descending weave. An ascending weave moving up is 1 segment

of power output training, 1 weave; 2 segments of power output training, 1 weave; 3 segments of

power output training, the intensity of training is moving upwards, O.K.? That’s the “Pattern

Weave”, and it’s self-regulatory, in the sense that it’s addressing the athletes concerns at the

time. O.K.?

We are going to get into how this is all going to work soon. I just want you to be hit with this all

right now, O.K. I want to just keep moving on, we have already gone through 50 minutes tonight.

(18)




- The “Unpatterned Weave”, which is to weave in different, and varying training

modalities to address the athletes subjective requirements. So this is very much a subjective

thing, you know very much a subjective thing. It’s particularly important for you know athletes in

injury, athletes that may be dealing with over training in season, and you know their physical

capacity, sickness, so on and so forth. So the Unpatterned Weave is basically to say, I might

have done 4 weeks of hard power output training prior and you know I’m pulling up bad, you

know we’ve had pre-season training at the same time, I’m doing power output, I say to my trainer,

I say to my coach, you know what, I can feel that my body is not responding as well, my

neurological system, and my neurological state is just not firing as quick, and as well, I need to

have a weave here, I need to have a week - I shouldn’t say a week - I need to have a time

segment of different training, less intense training, related at the same time to the bridge, which I

am pointing to you that I’m hoping that you understand is the water training element. O.K. So, the

unpatterned weave means that you are choosing to have it inserted at that time, you are not

creating it ahead of time like you do with a regular weave or a pattern weave. You are choosing

for it to be woven, that particular portion of the training schedule to be woven in at that time,

because you are either not responding to the training or overtraining, you may have an injury, or

you may be in-season and your assessment is that your physical capacity has been reduced. You

may be sick, something like this. Any of those things have to be self-identified. So any of those

components, the athlete has to be able to identify for themselves. O.K.? Something like injury,

that’s very self-evident, either you are injured or you are not. Either you are pregnant or you are

not. I like to keep that one simple. Sickness, the same thing. You know especially if you are going

to go into water training or something like that, if you’ve got a flu or something like that. Sickness

means, either you are sick, or you are not. You know, you may even, you know based on how

sick you are, you may just not train at all, that’s for the athlete to decide. Overtraining is

something that can be very symptomatic where athletes have a reduction in sleep, they can’t

sleep well, they’ve got high blood pressure at night time, they are waking up tired, there’s a

reduced desire for food, a reduced sexual desire, there’s even blurry vision and things like that.

Those types of things can definitely indicate over-training. Grumpiness, irritability, short temper

and important things like the red under the eye - if you are to pull your eye down, and check the

red, if the under your eye is white, you’ve got a protein deficiency and you are probably over

trained as well. If the under of your eye is red, you want to keep that going like that because you

got a high nutrient content in your blood, O.K.? These types of overtraining things are very much

subjective as well. It’s not like someone can tell you for yourself, you have got to know for

yourself. So that’s when the “unpatterned weave” helps you out, because if your going to be

overtrained like some of these professional athletes and coaches that we have got on the line

now, if you’ve got athletes that are overtrained flat-out, you need to be weaving them regularly,

(19)




but you need to be tipping them, and the question with these athletes is “where is the limit and

where is the point of compromise?” because they are doing so much, they are traveling, they are

doing all that stuff. You have to find that point of compromise and try not to cross it. So you are

kind of walking on that tight rope the whole time, so the unpatterned weave is a good tool for you

guys, because it means that you are going to be able to insert, even to the lack of an athletes

expectation, but you are going to be able to insert a modality of training that is still equally

effective, still addressing that progressive acceleration of the athlete, yet still resting them at the

same time. So the unpatterned weave is important.

So already in the weave, we have got a regular weave that is non-regulatory, we have got a

pattern weave which is self-regulatory, and we’ve got the unpatterned weave. O.K.? They are the

major examples of the weaves, but in terms of addressing Progressive Acceleration, it is

particularly and is obviously suited to this, and to water training and all the time the discussion of

weaving is going to come back to who it is that you are dealing with, especially when you get to

the unpatterned weaves, how someone is responding to training, so on and so forth.

With younger athletes, it’s probably the fact that they are training too much anyway. I mean with a

younger athlete, that’s, you know trying to do everything, and be everything to everyone, and play

on the football team, play on the basketball team, play on the hockey team, be the president of

the school and also run a “6 million dollar business”, is not going to achieve anything really… he

is spreading himself too thin. That is something I’ve tried to subtly convey online e-mailings, but

it’s something that I want young athletes specifically to think about; instead of trying to be

everything to everyone, try to focus your talents where you know they are going to be better

suited or better fitted, and apply them directly to those efforts. Because, otherwise you are going

to burn yourself out very quickly, and all of this effort you are putting in – which is great - because

it isn’t all going to come to fruition, because you are spreading yourself so thin that nothing gets

done. So I want you guys to think about that.

In terms of weaving, that’s it. The regular weave, the pattern weave, the unpatterned weave. O.K.

We’ve, gone through that, this all going to, I’m throwing this all out at you 100mph now, I want

you to keep sucking it up, sucking it in, I’m going to keep kicking it on to Base Repetition.

(20)




Base Repetition is a lot simpler. Base Repetition: is the notion that the basic structure of a

program continues. Why is that? “Carrying the base structure and core training principals

through, with the specific aim of addressing the stated goal.” – That is what Base Repetition is.

Write it down for me.

Carrying basic structure and core training principles through, with the specific aim of

addressing the stated goal.

So it would be pointless to carry a basic structure of a program through, if it wasn’t addressing a

stated goal. So the implication there is that it has to be addressing the stated goal. The athlete

has to be able to assess their work, which is what a Bridge is absolutely fundamental to. The

athlete has to be in a state to where they are achieving goals, which is why the UPN training

component is so important because it’s mathematical, and it is based on their subjective

performance level, and in terms of addressing the stated goal, the Base Repetition of the

Program is going to be the core structure of it. So, Base Repetition is carrying basic structure and

core training principals through, with the specific aim of addressing the stated goal.

In terms of examples, I’m going to point you back to the component in Volume 3.3. And the basic

repetition is that which occurs in weeks 1-4, there is “basic repetition” there. Not necessarily

structural repetition there, because there are a few tweaks. If you look at it hard, you will know. If

you have completed the system you will know, but the Basic Repetition, the basic structure, the

need to address the UPN, the need to address you know the occasional depth jumping workout,

the need to address plyometrics, the need to address the upper body, as well as the lower

body… all these things carry through - that’s Base Repetition. O.K.

Base Repetition - based on what we discussed - is naturally affected by weaving, and by bridging,

O.K.? So Base Repetition will always be affected by you inserting weaves, and by closing a

phase, and by putting a bridge into it. A weave doesn’t necessarily have to close a phase, a

bridge does though. A weave can be inserted, like we said, because you’re just over-trained.

That’s something for you to decide, I can’t decide that for you, no one can decide that for you. I

can just tell you that you need to look into it, that’s what I am doing. So, a base repetition

sequence will always be affected by a weave, and by a bridge. By a weave, it might not be

predictable, but by a bridge, it should be predictable - you should be able to predict where you are

inserting your bridges because you should be closing your phases with a bridge. O.K.

(21)




In terms of that, you don’t want your Base Repetition to be so infrequent that it’s no longer

repetitive. So let me repeat that, you don’t want your Base Repetition to be so infrequent that it’s

not repetitive, otherwise it’s no longer your base repetition, it’s just a skew of different training

occurrences - you don’t want that to be the case. What you know with UPN training, if you have

ever had an athlete perform it, or you’ve performed it yourself, the results come as you build on

the training and repetition of it, if you keep throwing in weaves because you are a pussy, and you

just want to have a week off or something like that and you say "I’m just going to have a pool

jumping or something like that." Well, you not have a Base Repetition and a foundational

structure, to the stated goal of whatever the (desired) vertical leap is. So, you’ve got to keep…

you know, I mean the Bridging and the Weaving can destroy the foundation of the program if you

insert too many weaves or you close the Bridge of your phase too quickly. You need to let your

body be challenged physically to respond to the training rigors, but not too much. The point I’m

making with you here, if you can see to what I am drawing is that the fact that this notion of the

Athletes Autonomy is based on the athletes ability to honestly mark themselves, and their

progress. Something that you can’t be told, as a coach you can monitor each athlete but they

have to report to you honestly, as well.

That’s the essence of what the Base Repetition is, as I said in volume 3.3, the Base Repetition

that I use as an example for now, is the stuff like the weeks 1-4 O.K.? That’s Base Repetition.

Moving on now, moving along now because I’ve already crossed the time limit of what I was

hoping to get through tonight. I want to keep going on now, I’m going forge ahead. Now were onto

one of the final points at the bottom there, and that’s the UPN Plyometrics.

O.K. UPN Plyometrics, wow that’s all exciting, and all of these types of things. Look there is

even a little trademark symbol as well! UPN plyometrics - this is not difficult, but it’s the first time I

am going to discuss it in an open context. Alright, in terms of what we are discussing today with

this 50-Inch Blueprint, the ability to give the athlete a sense of “Autonomy”, which is what I am

saying the 50-Inch Blueprint is, UPN plyometrics, are going to be inserted somewhere simply

because the other athletes I have worked with have used them too. “Well why is that the case

Luke?” Well, I don’t know why, it’s just worked like that - O.K. Some things just work like that. The

UPN plyometrics are good; it’s just simply a plyometric frame that has used a plyometric training

component that adopts the UPN numbers.

(22)




So you may have an athlete performing depth jumps, you indeed may be performing depth jumps

yourself… the point of the UPN plyometrics, is to be able to measure - based on the UPN stuff we

have discussed and it’s all discussed in Volume 1.4, it is very little point in me going into that now,

you should be familiar with that by now – but, the point of the UPN plyometrics is to apply the

UPN training schedules, instead of to just Power Output exercises, also to the plyometric

exercises that are listed.

So, for example, let’s talk about where these might occur…

Go back to Volume 3.3, I'll let you go back there now, Volume 3.3. On Day 5's, in Volume 3.3 in

between week 1, and week 4, if you go to week 1, day 5, O.K., Week 1 day 5. It should say lower

body plyometrics, we’ve got an active warm-up, we’ve got Starting Acceleration, we’ve got

Progressive Acceleration - because I believe that’s what plyometrics address, though poorly, they

do address Progressive Acceleration in terms of, power functioning - O.K. , so day 5, week 1, you

have got the depth jump series, O.K.?

This is what I’ve never really liked about Depth Jumps, basically they are still in this archaic, set

and repetition structure where it’s random, you know it’s “3 sets of 5 reps”, well why 3 sets? why 5

reps? Well why not apply the UPN's to it?

So you perform your set of Depth Jumps, and you measure your UPN, you find the point where

you compromise - it might be the 8th rep - because you have hit that point of compromise there,

the UPN is the uncompromised performance number, you minus 1. So your UPN for that Depth

Jump series becomes 7. Start at week 1, 7 la-di-dah, rest 2 minutes, 120 seconds, and you follow

that series, you create that series, and you follow it.

O.K., now that’s pretty interesting because when we get to discussing the 50-Inch Blueprint -

especially in light of the 50-Inch Report that’s the major bonus of the Double Your Vertical Leap

Software - you are going to see how all of these things all tie in together. For now I just want to

discuss the UPN plyometrics as simply doing plyometrics - a plyometric exercise - specifically the

standard depth jumps where the athlete starts at the top of the box, they land, upon landing, they

explode immediately back up into a jump. That’s a depth jump alright.

When we are talking about UPN plyometrics - specifically, they address that movement. You

might have single leg depth jumps, things like that, you don’t need to overtrain these athletes on

too many of these specific movements. Remember I told you about “effectiveness” and


(23)




“efficiency”, training directly against the gravity, training in the vertical plane is always going to be

the most effective way for the athlete to address their power, to increase their power, and for the

athlete to see results. Its effectiveness, and efficiency.

O.K. So, tonight that’s what we have had a look at so far. We have done Bridging, Weaving, Base

Repetition, and UPN Plyometrics.

I wanted to go quickly into Reverse Appropriation. Reverse Appropriation is something that we

need I feel to discuss just so we have it there as a point of reference. It’s not structurally pertinent

to the 50-Inch Blueprint, and to elaborating on the Double Your Vertical Leap System, and

because I have so many of the MasterClass Submission Portal questions to get through tonight,

I’m going to keep Reverse Appropriation very simple for you – for now - O.K.?

So what I want you to do is… I did ask you in my prior email to have ready with you whether you

have printed it off, or you have it on your screen, I did ask you to go to page 7 of my single leg

report. O.K., I want you to go to page 7 of my report called “The Single Most Effective Exercise

Ever Devised For Increasing Single Leg Athletic Power Output”.

Page 7 … while you go there I’m going to have a little sip of water so I can clear my throat, and

be right for you guys, give me a minute. O.K. I want you to go about half way down the page

O.K., then you are going to hit a paragraph that starts with “From a neurological perspective…”

I’m just going to read this out to you because I want this to hit you:

From a neurological perspective, which is most important, single leg and double leg movements

differ greatly and don’t necessarily correlate, either. Let’s keep comparing apples with apples

here. When it comes to two equivalent movements think of the Double Leg Squat and One Leg

Squat, so many things like the way the weight is barred, the varying center of gravity, the tilt of

the body, the fast points, the electrical currents and countless other things that can be saved for a

more fitting time, mean that the training stimulation is vastly different. You must also remember

that all too often, these types of lifts do not mimic the actual natural movements in the sport

either. Furthermore there is a distinct lack neurological and performance correlation between

single leg and double leg movements.


(24)




This is all hitting on the Reverse Appropriation concept that I was talking with you about and this

is the nature of it, O.K. If you have discussed it in terms of single leg or double leg movements

there, but it also relates to exercise choice, in terms of what exercises are better for you to

choose, given the fact that any number of exercises could stimulate your body, and the

neurological system, and your muscular system. So, as a tool for choosing exercises, you have

got to take especially for the athlete and in terms of vertical leap gain and performance, you have

to take Reverse Appropriation into account.

So, let me explain it, give you a couple of examples of Reverse Appropriation, as they relate to

this. Let's look at lets say the chin up or the pull up as compared to uh lat pull downs. Now the

gains that you make in the chin up, the strength gains that you make in the chin up, or the pull up

always correlate to strength gains that someone can make in the lat pull down. However,

someone using the lat pull down, won't make the same strength gains when they go back to the

pull ups or the chin up machine. There is some neurological functioning that affects that. O.K.

There is the pull up and the chin up that are more natural movements where the lat pull down

movement uh where how the electricity flows through the body and where it ends in the floor and

how the body seated while it's doing that, means that it's neurologically diverse to the pull up or

the chin-up itself because the electrical current, as it works through the body, as the person is

making the movement is different altogether.

This is the same thing with the selection of Vertical Leap exercises and all types of exercises

indeed. But, the point there is it is also going to relate to EMS which I'll discuss on Friday night,

as well as we wrap this up because I am going take, because I’ve got to get through a lot of these

um Submission Portal questions this evening, I am going to go into more depth on Reverse

Appropriation on Friday night, so you can tie it up but you will see why EMS which is Electrical

Muscle Stimulation is a poor choice for the athlete, and so on and so forth. So I just want you to

get that into the back of your mind. O.K. I want you to understand that there is this kind of concept

of Reverse Appropriation and that it's used as a principle by which you can guide and select your

exercises, for your most effective response and effectiveness to the training goals of vertical leap.

So, I am just going to wrap this up now so that we can get into the Master Class Submission

Portal questions for this evening. I’ve just got a Gestalt revision of major points as the final point

here for the Mandate 3, I want to hit these on the head before we just continue into the this, so

you still get this idea of what it is that we are doing as we go into these questions tonight, alright?

(25)




Basically, as the Double Your Vertical Leap System was initially presented, it was set in concrete,

but now you can see how some of these elements and most of these elements indeed can be

adjusted to create different leverage points in your training results, depending on the time of your

season or where you are at - and these are Bridging, Weaving, Base Repetition - these are your

tools. They are flexible and they are not set in concrete so we can now set forth the goals of this

50-Inch Blueprint structure is, and in doing so, let's just cap off the foundation of what I've

discussed here with the water plyometrics and moving on from there.

So basically water plyometrics - and especially as they relate and address Progressive

Acceleration - really expand on Progressive Acceleration as a key leverage point for the elite

athletes, and also for younger athletes with hectic schedules as well. The reason for this is clear,

and is multiply beneficial to the athlete and it's because it takes away a lot of that high-impact

jarring that's associated with so much of the other training, and it allows you to rest and recover

fully, yet still making gains and increases.

It is also important that it's removed from the UPN expression - you have got to take note of that

and just remember that there is no UPN that applies to uh water training as such. Now, as we get

into these other notions. Bridging is training segments or schedules that connect or Bridge

one major training phase to another. You have got that down, it's key features: typically goes

about 5-10 days, signified by a lighter stress load in terms of volume, intensity can be a variable,

however a bridge should rest the common training stresses like high-impact training modalities

associated with Power Output training, plyometrics, the list goes on, even on court, on track stuff.

It gives the trainer, or coach, or athlete evenly the ability to recover from the wear and tear of

high-impact training, and then they can assess bodily turnover - so results, how the body is

recovering, etc. It is used as a point of consolidation to temporarily rest the nervous system, the

muscular system, while still providing some active stimulation to the neurological system. O.K.

And, on a final note, Bridging, is the hallmark of an incomplete or bad program, if it lacks this

notion of a continuity Bridge. Even with that said, it is still very rare for it to see, even with

performance athletes, so you have got to be aware of inserting your Bridges regularly and being

aware that they are inserted into your training regimes no matter who you are, whether you are a

coach, your a trainer, or you are an athlete, you have to incorporate this notion of Bridging to

connect one training phase or modality to the next.

Moving on - just to wrap up Weaving - I introduced you to a number of different concepts with

Weaving, let's just go over weaving again. Let's have a look at this definition of Weaving and what

exactly it is. Weaving is inserting or intervalling different training parameters and schedules


(26)




on purpose to suit a specific purpose or goal, so I introduced you to 3 types of Weaves

tonight:

There was the regular weave which is a non-regulatory one which is repetitive at intervals that are

predictable and in a regular sequence and it's used predominately for beginner athletes, but you

can use it for any types of athletes.

Okay, then moving on there is the pattern weave which is self-regulatory and set to a sequence

that is patterned in either a descending or ascending sequence and we explained how the

descending sequence relates to moving towards the in-season, and the ascending sequence

relates to moving from the off-season into the pre-season and building the body up and allowing it

to shift into different gears.

The unpatterned weave is self-regulatory and it's where you weave in different and varying

training modalities to address the athlete’s subjective requirements, so it is very subjective. It's

particularly related to injury, overtraining, in-season assessment of physical capacity, sickness,

and it requires the subjective judgment and identification, of the athlete - him or herself - O.K.?

That unpatterned weave can be inserted at any time, at anywhere, there is no pattern to it, and it

just gets inserted because of these subjective, bodily requirements.

So that's how um, weaving works. Now, Base Repetition was something that was a little simpler.

Base Repetition is as I said before, carrying basic structure and core training principals

through with the specific aim of addressing the stated goal. Now, it can't get much easier

than this, but it's important that you understand that you always consistently addressing you’re

very goal oriented, so you are still making progress however you are moving. And that's this Base

Repetition, carrying these core principals that like the UPN training that's mathematical and that

it's producing your results consistently, it's your engine, it's that mathematical engine that’s

allowing power to output to increase regularly over time. You are carrying that through. O.K. You

are carrying it through as you move forward. A side bar note on Base Repetition, it is important to

understand that it can be affected by weaving, and bridging, and if you put too many Weaves in

or you cut your training off too quickly. You‘ve got to be smart and intelligent with how you are

carrying the Base Repetition through otherwise it's simply not repetitive, it's not Base Repetition.

So, be careful with that - that was the side bar note I made about that.

(27)




Finally UPN plyometrics - just to wrap it up, and just to hit you with that again - UPN plyometrics

was applying the UPN charts, and the UPN idea and numbers to the plyometric exercises,

specifically just the depth jump. We don’t need to get into much more than that, that's really the

vertical leap in itself - the depth jumps - and you can asses a UPN from there and then apply the

charts that are found within the Double Your Vertical Leap Software, and then you can move

forward, and keep using plyometric training, however, using it in a sense of not going beyond the

point of compromise which is, which intriguing and definitely produces results.

I will tie all of these intriguing and great and new concepts, into the final night. For now you’re just

been hit head on with all of this information. When you get it at home, when you get these

recordings, when you get the transcript user manual, when you sit it all down with yourself at

home, you are going to be able to plough through it all and believe me, it will hit you, it will start to

hit you as soon as you get through it once. You will be able to read through it with me, you will be

able to listen again to the recordings on CD, and you'll get it, you will definitely get it.

I’m going to tie it all up all of this stuff up on Friday night, because tomorrow night, and Thursday

night will be heading into the recovery components of the 50-Inch Blueprint and what I am

teaching in this MasterClass. So while we’ve still got some time, tonight let's move into some of

the Master Class Submission Portal questions for the day, and I want to specifically address

those topics that relate to today's efforts and where we have ended most of our focus today. So, I

know I have got quite a few to get through tonight and there’s been a couple of topics that have

definitely come up a lot in the Submission Portal and that most certainly relate to the content of

this evening, so... I will probably open up with those kinds of questions…

Here's one, I do want to hit on some of these notions that have been brought up, tonight... just

sorting through these I have got a question here from Todd.

Todd says: How can my son work on his vertical for basketball while still keeping his football

coach happy who requires weight training, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and plyos/band

training Tuesday and Thursday.

Luke: Okay, this kind of line of questions is very similar throughout the entire question set that we

have been getting - it's been a fairly common string that we have been pulling out, but each of the


(28)




specific cases differ slightly so I can go into some more detail, and your bound to pick up different

little things from each of them. Okay, you have got a kid who wants to play football and

basketball, and then he has got to also do his weight training, Mon, Wed, Fri, and plyos/band

training Tuesday and Thursday… and he wants to do the Double Your Vertical Leap System.

Well you are going to be tinkering on overtraining, no matter what it is that you are doing, alright?

Because there is so much stuff going on here that it's just going to compact and compound the

issue and the physical stresses so much that recovery really has to be concerned. However, you

have the tool of the Weave, which you can closely watch your son, and see how he is recovering

and see how he is moving along. In terms of training structure, I am guessing that weight training

that occurs on Mon, Wed, Fri, is probably set to some kind of basically Upper Body, bodybuilding

regime, so I am going to make that assumption and I am going to make the assumption that

plyos/band training on Tuesday and Thursday is for the lower body. I think that it is unfortunate

that the training if it's kind of a body building regime, Mon, Wed, Fri, I think it's unfortunate that

they use those types of lifts, because I do think that if you tell the coach that this will result in

injury for the kids, but their are some short term gains sure - aesthetically, appearance wise - it

works well for athletes as well, so that's a very big psychological factor but moving onto this - this

is what I'd be doing – I’d be definitely keeping the Double Your Vertical Leap training in there,

however what I would be doing is on Tuesday, and Thursday mornings, I would be doing the

Starting Acceleration phase and the Power Output phase of the workout's. Okay so, if you go to

Volume 3.3 with me… we will go to Volume 3.3…. okay, if we look down at this training program

here, you are going to see that, I have got Day 1, you know lower body, Day 2, Upper body this

and that la-di-dah, what you need to do is… I would be taking the active warm-up, the Starting

Acceleration, the Progressive Acceleration, that workout there, and I'd be doing that in the

mornings of Tuesday, and Thursday… so Tuesday, you would do the day 1 workout in the

morning, and on Thursday, you would do the Day 3 of that week, you would do that on Thursday

morning. And the plyo's and band training is going to workout. That would be all I would do, I

wouldn't include Day 5's now in your workout, I mean it's a pity that they are doing

plyometrics/band training 2 days apart, but I am not sure if that's both on both days.

I am not for band training whatsoever because the way that the band works is that it progressively

decelerates you. If you have been listening to my discussion and my teaching on Progressive

Acceleration, is that it is crucial to conditioning the neurological system to explode all the way

through a movement, when most of our lifestyle situations teach us only to explode through a

certain portion of the movement. The bands do exactly that, they allow you to explode at the start,

but they increase tension towards the top of the movement, thereby slowing you down. So they



(29)




subconsciously and unconsciously teach the nervous system to slow towards the top of the

movement, and there is going to be an interesting discussion related to that a little bit down the

track that I will have you in on, but we can't be doing that. Definitely on the Tuesday and

Thursday mornings, I will be going ahead, and doing the power output training as per day 1 and

day 3 of our system, and that would be basically all I'd be setting in – I’d be watching and

monitoring recovery closely, you are going to get more out of that for the next two nights, but

definitely watch that stuff for now Todd. Alright moving on to another one - this is from Drew.

Drew: I have been working on my game once on vertical leap training days, and twice on non-

training days. I shoot a real jumper, I mean I get up on my shot, so with me working on it for an

hour once or sometimes twice a day, along with doing the jumping program, it sure takes a toll on

my legs…

Luke: I am sure it does…

Drew: … and I am sure that it has a negative affect on my gains from being as much as they

could be, so I was just wondering if you could address a way for me to do all of this and keep my

gains up at a steady pace.

Luke: Well the fact of the matter is Drew, you are going to get to a point where you have to pick

the focus on one or the other. Now I am not saying that you do Vertical Leap Training at the

expense of you bettering your game and I don't think… that’s beside the point, if I was to advise

that then, you know you’re obviously increasing your vertical leap for your sport.

But I think that if you are working on your jumper, and stuff like that, you are working twice on

your non-training days, well you should just take one day of a week - because you are young, and

yeah your body can take it, but you should have one day where don't stress yourself and you just

focus on recovery because it's going to make you that much more explosive and that much

better. You can go in and maybe do some one-arm shooting, or something like that but don't

jump around take a lot of impact and stuff like that. It's going to be hard for you to hear this, but it

is actually going to make you better if you go ahead and do it. You say, in terms of incorporating

your training sequence into the vertical leap training, I would be going ahead and doing

(30)




everything as is, as the Double Your Vertical Leap System has it, except once you are done, as

part of Recoordination, condense your effort and energy into a 30 minute explosiveness on

shooting drills, and be more intense with what you are doing and don't drag out so much of what

you are doing. If you get up on your jumper, and you get up high on your shot, that's fine. But, be

aware that it is taxing you as well, and then monitor that. Okay, that is it for Drew, moving along

this is a popular question as well. This is from Julius and he says

Julius: is there any way to possibly incorporate your Sample Program, during a hard season with

hard daily practice? If not, can I still do a routine, or do parts of a few very effective exercises

which will help me increase my explosiveness and vertical all year round?

Luke: Okay, let me just answer that for you. It's very easy for you to incorporate the entire

system into a season's play; we have just explained how you can asses where you are at in-

season, with Weaves of water training, and so on and so forth. But, most importantly here, I can

say that you can drop the day 5's on the weeks 1-4, the Base Repetition sequence of the

program - if you drop Day 5, which is the heavy, heavy plyometric schedule, you will be able to

incorporate that into your hard season, simply because the UPN's stuff is never taking you

beyond that point of compromise, and as long as you do that training in the morning, before all of

your vertical training, all of your vertical training should be done in the morning before anything

else, and you should have ample time to recover so you can team sessions either in the

afternoon or at night time - and I'd imagine that most of your games are at night time, as well - so

that stuff should be fine for you know. Another question here that relates to this.

Julius: Can real gains in athletic skills be made even during the season, or is it possible to

become more athletic regarding your vertical and explosiveness during the off-season?

Luke: You are more likely to gain more in the off-season when your body can actively address its

recovery and its vertical capacity, to just the vertical leap training. However, that is not to say that

you can't make gains in-season, of course you can make gains in-season - there has to be a

renewed focus on the posterior chain and a number of the single leg hyperextensions and things

like that, that really get that going. I am going to explain on Day 5, a little 21-day schedule that's

very effective with that, and you've got to focus more on that posterior chain to balance the


(31)




tension distribution between the majority of the quads, and the lower back and then redistribute it

more evenly to the hamstrings, and the backside of your body, so be aware of that as well…

Julius: How do I deal with injury, especially when I have to stop during your program. Where do I

start up at your program when I am completely healthy again? Do I have to start over completely?

Luke: Well, it all kind of depends on what kind of injury it is. Firstly, I would definitely get over the

injury 100% completely before you get back into anything, and it's the same that goes for

sickness really, but with injury you want to be over it. You want to be past it because otherwise,

you really run the risk of doing more damage to yourself, and it's a much larger potential for it to

be worse damage that can't be rectified and that’s very, very important for you to understand and

to take on. It is one of those things that for kids, it is hard to listen to, but it is something that you

should definitely do. In terms of where you start in the program again, it depends on how long

your injury has been, how long you have been recovering, and how long that entire process has

taken you. You have really got to assess your body - if it has been too long, just start over again,

because your UPN may have gone down… so if that's the case, start over again, it is not going to

hurt you.

Just because you are starting over again, it doesn’t mean that your gains have gone all the way

back to zip. So don’t think, don't tie that idea that you are starting over again, means that you are

back to square 1. You are not - you are just starting at a different point. That's the common

mistake with people; is they think that if they are starting over again, they are back at square 1.

That's not the case, so don't get discouraged Julius.

Moving on here, I have got a few more questions that relate to overextension of training, and so

on and so forth. I have got an interesting one that I will wrap up with tonight, but let’s just keep

moving on, you are going to find this one quite amusing, and I am sure the guy that’s part of it as

well is going to find it amusing, but that's going to be my last one for tonight. I will go on now to

here is a question from Jeff. Jeff says…

Jeff: Tennis has the shortest off-season (4 weeks) of any other sport, what should be done

during those 4 weeks to make the biggest gains, and more importantly how can I make consistent

gains during the year while playing tennis tournaments, and traveling?

(32)




Luke: You are obviously an athlete that has a very subjective schedule and of a very subjective,

in terms of you could be at a different gym every 2 weeks and you could be with different

equipment every two weeks, and you could be in a hotel for 48 weeks of the year… what you

want to do during the 4 weeks is to really work on your posterior, I will go through that on Friday,

but you consistently do everything if you do it early in the morning, and make sure you recover. If

you train early in the morning, use the Double Your Vertical Leap System, you can do all that stuff

because you are not crossing the point of compromise. I want to stress that with you, if you have

got to travel and you are in-season, and you have got travel with it, then cut out the Day 5's

because the UPN's never take you beyond the point of compromise. You can still do all of that

Starting Acceleration stuff, because it is not as stressful, it's just explosive for the neurological

system, it's not muscularly stressful. So... you can definitely do all that stuff, and I don’t think that

you should discount the rest of the year, but for the 4 weeks go hard, you can see a little

schedule that I am going to insert there on Friday, that's really going to be a good tie-in thing, it's

a good Bridge, so... Have a look at that but keep working on it anyway.

I have got another question here that is based on injuries again…

Jeff: I have a history of lower leg injuries and I do daily pounding on the hard out courts, would it

be better for me to only incorporate pool plyos, and that of the power output plyos that involve

more jarring on the joints. If so, how would this be done? How come there isn’t a UPN sign for

pool plyos, I notice that when doing…

Luke: There is no UPN in the pool because of the way that it, it can't be… by the time you

perform the exercise, you know if you jump in a pool, you jump up and then you take a couple

seconds to land, so there is no hard time factor plus there is no miotatic stretch reflex where you

go from the concentric to the eccentric landing portion and then up into the concentric portion,…

that's gone. So that stretch-reflex that we have, the effect of it, if that's gone, there hyperplasia-

inducing contraction there is gone, so there is little use in UPN's.

What you want to do with incorporating pool plyo’s and S/L hypers is you've got a good idea there

- if you've got a history of lower leg injuries you have got to be careful as you know… not to do

too much pounding on the courts, but you can definitely do a lot of pool work, and you can

definitely do a lot of posterior chain work. Again, a lot of this stuff will be addressed on Friday and

you will be able to see how it ties-in there and make sure you look at that carefully because that's


(33)




going to definitely assist you, and it's going to tie-in everything that’s been said for the entire

week, so I don’t want you to neglect that.

Jeff: The last question here, is should I do more single-leg exercises, since I am never jumping

off of or moving off of two legs in tennis…

Luke: Well, I don't know… I mean - when you are receiving a serve, as far as I've seen with most

tennis players, you are standing on two legs, you are not standing on one-leg so... I wouldn't say

that power is based on one leg or two legs. Some exercises are more effective for one-leg power

output, but other exercises are universal, in the sense that they are going to increase your power,

and your reactiveness, your agility, your lateral movement, and your vertical movement, by their

own nature, even if there are double leg movements. So, I wouldn’t say do more single-leg

exercises, I think if you are talking about a lot of daily pounding that has contributed to lower leg

injuries then you’re going to be very… because of the nature of single-leg exercises, the whole

body weight shifts just onto one leg - so, it is going to be more likely to induce injuries. Instead, be

careful, make sure that you are strengthening your tibialis anterior, and that in turn is going to

strengthen your ankle, you will find. And then, don't worry about single vs. double, because it's

not really the relevant point that you need to get across there.

There is a question here and it relates to the topic that I have been discussing tonight, in terms of

the Master Class, it's a similar topic so far - this is from Brock.

Brock: So far, during my first two years in high school, I have only been able to use your program

for 4 consecutive weeks. I have had good improvements when I have been using your program

but it seems like I've actually never had enough time to consistently use it. During these last two

years in high school, I've struggled not to overtrain myself because my schedule is so hectic, I

feel that my vertical actually got worse sometimes during basketball, because I was so tired

sometimes…

Luke: you are right, it will do that.

Brock: I know I can do a better job for recovery this year though, I feel my weakness for my

athletic journey is not being able to actually use your program and methods while I am in sports,

so the point here is - I need your help, so I can learn how to put your program into effect without

burning out during the basketball, or football season…

(34)




Luke: This is the same thing. Brock, you’re the kind of guy that you are going to try to do it all at

one time, and unfortunately, whilst it might look like that’s how you are going to make it gains, it's

actually going to make your gains regress and get worse as you, you've said yourself. You know

that from your own experience, don't go back and make that same mistake, again.

You can use the Double Your Vertical Leap System in the mornings before everything else,

making sure that you recover afterwards, you can use the Double Your Vertical Leap System in

the mornings before everything else, making sure that you recover afterwards, provided that you

don't that go beyond that point of compromise, you don't try to “tease” yourself to be beyond that

point of compromise… and if you take out Day 5's you can certainly do it in a hectic schedule

because you are only doing two days and it's a really light when it is done like that.

Again, weaves for you - get into the Weaves because they are going to help you out. They are

definitely going to help you out and then recovery, adjust, asses recovery - most athletes are

walking on this tightrope of under recovery and overtraining. They are two very different things, I

am going to explain them in the next couple of nights, and by the time I am done with that,

everything is going to be answered for you, Brock. So you are going to be OK with that.

Moving along – I’ve still got this one that I am going to save for last, which is going to be my last

one… but I've got a couple more here that I think I want to get through. This is a good question

that relates specifically to tonight - this is from Steve. Steve says:

Steve: Regarding the sample training program training days, because of scheduling, how many

calendar day's can I skip between, say training day 1, or two or 3, and still be effective? Can I

take, so in other words he is saying. Can I take 10 days or more to complete a schedule of 7

days?

Luke: So basically, you will know that my weeks 1-4 in volume 3.3 are split up into 7 day

schedules, and Steve is saying, can he take 10 days to do the 7 days?

I wouldn't do that, I would do the 7 days as the 7 days are, but I would perhaps take a Weave or a

Bridge, we call it a weave there where you do say 3 or 4 days, 3 days of pool work, or something

like that. That way, you are still doing the compacted training schedule of 7 days, but you are

stretching it out for 10. So if you think that's a worry, you can always do that. That’s even two



(35)




days of pool work for something so small like that, that's very compacted scheduling and it's

probably not something that you want to do, but if you are thinking along those lines, then don't

break up the 7 days. Keep the 7 days as the structure, and just take a couple days afterwards

and maybe do a couple days of pool work, split over 4 days or 3 days, okay, meaning that you do

pool work, day 1, day 2 you would rest, day 3, you do pool work, that's 3 days - and you are

training twice split over 3 days. His further question is getting into in-season training which is what

we have addressed,

Steve I will tell you the same thing for you, you have asked…

Steve: This leads me to in-season training, Due to practices, and competition, how do I plug the

training days around these skill events? Obviously, I need to recover and I'll be fatigued for any of

these events.

Luke: The same thing that I said is that you can cut out Day 5's because that’s where a lot of

really high impact is, and it is where a lot of stress is. You can insert an unpatterned weave, when

you see fit, make sure that you do your training first thing in the morning, when you have time to

recover thereafter - and it's away from all other types of training, you have time to recover with

The Window Plan, for the required period after. That will still see you know, exceptional gains,

definitely. Definitely! So, it’s the same thing I've been repeating similar things to a couple of other

people, but again when you get these recordings, you are going to go over and see how each of

these little topics are slightly different. Moving along here, alright.

This is my last one for this evening, it is the one that I have been wanting to get to – it’s actually

an interesting story, you are going to find it interesting - this is from Chris. Chris says to us:

Chris: I am a happy Jumpsoles customer having used them four summers ago to help me win a

bet on whether I could dunk on my 40th b’day. I am 6'1 and 180 lbs, I did it and raised about

7,500 dollars for charity…

Luke : Well done

Chris: Now the bet is one again, this time I am at 40:1 odds again for charity, only this time I get

one attempt, and it has to be a two hander. If I don't do it on my 44th bday September 13th, which

is in a little more than a month, the charity will get a raise of 250 thousand dollars. So this is a 250

(36)




thousand dollar question. So my questions and issues are.. given the compressed time frame,

should I do the same training as last time, the Jumpsoles workout?

Luke: No, definitely not, use the Double Your Vertical Leap System

Chris: Question 2, I am a right foot take off left handed dunker, given that I need to throw down a

two hander, should I shift to a 2-foot take off? It feels like a very different approach and jump

style.

Luke: O.K. Chris, this is what I have to answer, given that you are on this time frame, I would not

be shifting to a 2-foot take off. Though it is the most powerful, I would not be shifting to it because

it requires neurological adaptation over a specific amount of time. The gains that you could be

making in your one foot jumping style - especially with the single leg hyperextensions that I get

you to use on that flat bench, on the parallel bench, not the 45 degree angle bench, the parallel

bench - if you are using those, you are going to be able to take off, especially with the one foot,

you are going to feel that in 1 or 2 weeks, let alone the 4 weeks that you have got - so single leg

hyperextensions definitely. Don't change your jumping style.

The second thing that I want you to do is, you are a right foot take off, left handed dunker - so that

means that as you are stepping into that right foot take off and that left hand dunk, drive that left

knee up hard, drive it up really hard, really rip it up hard and that will give you about an extra inch

or two as you get up. Now, if you are already dunking with one hand, with the right-foot take off

and the left hand dunk, then really pushing that knee up and driving it up really hard as you go up

exaggerating that drive… you are going to see a very big difference there as well. Now they are

just tricks that work, but that's just a trick that works but in terms of understanding the

neurological capacity of it and the neurological reasons for it is that, it is going to take too much

time to reprogram your neurological system to jump off of two feet, and to put down with two

hands.

So go up with two hands, on your left side as you would, and drive hard with your left leg as well,

and maybe if you are dunking with one hand now, you could probably get two handed dunk off

now like that. But if you have got 4 weeks to do the Double Your Vertical Leap system, you are

going to get the results that you need by then eventually so you should be fine with that…



(37)




Chris: My left knee has some sort of under the knee cap strain I feel always during squats, I often

feel them during stairs and bike riding, this limits my training, and makes me inclined to stay with

the one foot, right foot take off.

Luke: That's OK, you don't want to stress your knee, you don't want to take it past what it is able

to do, especially given your age. You should be alright though, and you should not do too many

one-footed squat movements, don't do one footed depth-jumps, single-leg depth jumps, because

it is going to transfer too much weight onto that knee, I don't want you to do that, just keep things

regular, except for when you are doing your single-leg movements.

This pain under the knee cap might have to do with strength imbalances through the quads and

the hamstrings, my guess is that because of what you have been doing, you have got a tension

imbalance between your quads and your hamstrings, and if your hamstrings get a lot more

tension through them and a lot more electrical current through them, they will even up that

strength imbalance and it will thus prevent that injury, and then you will stop feeling the symptoms

of that injury that is about to come. So be aware of that, and be aware of strengthening and

increasing the tension that's within your posterior chain, and especially focusing on those single-

legged hyperextensions and on the stiff-legged dead lifts, and things like that because they are

powerful, powerful movements, and they are definitely going to assist you. From what I can see,

you should be able to get that $250,000 dollars for the charity - which is fantastic - I am really

wrapped to hear that’s the case and you’ve got to keep us posted with how you go with that!

That’s it for this evening, I believe. We have gotten through a lot tonight and hit it pretty hard so,

go away tonight, we are going to come back tomorrow night, and the night after Wed and Thurs

night and we are going to hit on recovery… You are going to find that last night's and tonight’s

work is really going to sit into your head, and then when we come back on Friday night, it's going

to be reawakened in you and going to turn on even more for you.

So, go away with that tonight. It's been a really good night and I think that we have gotten through

a lot of stuff; I took a lot of time on building those Gestalts, tonight. In the meantime, I look

forward to speaking with you tomorrow night - again we are on it's a special night tomorrow night,

I don't want you to miss it - you are going to love it, it's Shawn Phillips, World Famous Fitness

Authority.

(38)




Tomorrow night is going to blow your mind, the next night is going to blow your mind, and the final

night is going to really blow your mind, so don't miss tomorrow night, it is with Shawn Phillips, it's

live, it's going to take a little bit of a different structure tomorrow night, it's not going to be me

hammering down your ear so hard, but until then… take care, God Bless you, remember that

failure really is impossible and that you should train hard, and you should train smart. This is Luke

Lowrey creator of TheVerticalProject.com signing off and I will speak with you tomorrow night.

Alright then, take care…

Double Your Vertical Leap – Version 3: Now Available!

Click For More Info About Luke Lowrey’s “Double Your Vertical Leap” System



(39)




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.



(40)




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.

http://www.adenotrex.com/slam


MasterClass Day 2 Training Advanced

Documents

Transcript of MasterClass Day 2 Training Advanced