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Day 1 – Training

Vertical Leap Beyond Belief The 50-Inch Blueprint: Day 1

With Luke Lowrey

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The “Vertical Leap Beyond Belief” MasterClass Seminar Series was

conducted in August, 2006 by “The World’s Undisputed #1 Vertical Leap

Expert”, Luke Lowrey… and for the very first time in history, outlined the

“50-Inch Blueprint”. Herein lies the Transcript User Manual from that

groundbreaking week in athletic performance enhancement history.

Luke Lowrey is the acclaimed founder of TheVerticalProject.com and the

creator of the world-famous Double Your Vertical Leap software system.

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MasterClass – Training Syllabus: Day 1

"Welcome, this is Luke Lowrey; creator of TheVerticalProject.com… and we are nearly

ready to go I think. We are nearly ready to go. I need you to have those things out. I need that

pen and paper, to take your own notes and you will be sitting at the computer with the Double

Your Vertical Leap system up and running, and I want you to have Mandate 2 ready. It seems as

though the sign-ins have subsided for a little bit, so I’ll get kicking off here.

Just about taking your own notes; I want you to take your own notes on this. You’ll notice that

when I send out material and what is going to be described and discussed in thought throughout

the course, I send it out in Mandates. There is an important reason for that; by you taking you’re

own notes, you are going to be able to learn what it is that I am teaching in your own way. That

doesn’t mean to say that what you’re learning is contrary or different to what I am teaching - it

means that you are grasping it in your own frame, and in your own frame of reference. That’s

important because I am not going to be one of those teachers that are out there providing you

with a whole bunch of notes. By taking your own notes, you are going to assimilate the learning

at your own frequency and in the own way that you can understand it. It’s different to the majority

of the mainstream learning, you know university, high school, the way the largely experimental

learning system works – it’s much different. O.K.?

So I need you guys to be ready, and ready to go. I am going to just kick off tonight with a little bit

of an introduction as to why this is happening, how it all came about, how it came about that I

decided to open this course, and this MasterClass series to athletes and coaches in general, and

then I want to go over some goals and purposes of why we are here this week, what it is that we

are hoping to achieve with you, and how you can apply what you are going to learn this week to

your own training, and your own careers and your own athletes, indeed for the coaches as well.

I’ve done this MasterClass for a number of years now, and I’ve only ever opened it to high-end

athletes that are on my private client list. There has been a simple reason for that, and that’s that

they’re the people that generally want to get into the “know” of more of what it is that I’m going to

do on the inside of my business. This year we decided to open it to everyone else because we’ve

had such an influx of varied questions and people who wanted to get in deeper to the Double

Your Vertical Leap System than we have in the last two years. So this all came about, I guess a

few months ago when I was contacted by JumpUSA to discuss the possibility of opening up the

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MasterClass to users, and listeners, and coaches and trainers generally. We decided to go about

doing it this year, and to open it up to everyone because it’s something that the “average athlete”

will rarely, if ever, have a chance to be a part of. Now obviously you know, you came, and

registered, you did all that stuff, and that’s something that has never happened probably in the

sense of being a regular athlete you might show up to a seminar every now and then. It’s rare

that you will get into a week long MasterClass system that’s usually reserved for high-end

trainers, coaches and people that are largely “in the know”.

Now, tonight we’ve got a whole plethora of athletes - and for the rest of the week as well - I’ve got

a whole plethora of people from athletes to coaches, to trainers… all from 15-16 year olds,

average athletes, all the way up to NBA, NFL, Major League, Olympic, athletes, coaches, trainers

the whole bit.

So as I said, in mandate 2 about tonight, we’ve got to introduce everyone to this material at the

same level, so tonight it’s about laying the foundation clearly, it’s about laying the framework and

the reference point from where we can shoot for, and aim for, for the rest of the week. That’s

going to be important. The way this is going to have to work - and I want you to take it and accept

it like this - discussing point #1 here on Mandate 2, it’s that “Learner-Teacher” relationship and

what I’ve always called the “Submission Requisite”; where the structure of what I teach is so

diverse to what your going to find in the mainstream athletic world, and the mainstream training

world, and the Old-School conventional way of doing things that you have been so conditioned

into believing a set of circumstances based on a series of what people would lead you to believe

are facts and premises that you can then apply to your athletic career, to your athletics so on and

so forth.

Now what I need you to do for your own sake is to take what I am saying tonight, and for the rest

of the week, and assume what I am saying is correct and that you have not heard anything prior

to this. I’m getting to this first, because I cannot underestimate the importance of that. The world

from the top down - the NBA trainers that are on this, the NFL trainers that are on this, all the way

down to the 16-year old athletes, the 15-year old athletes that are basically recreational athletes,

perhaps for their high school - that entire world, from the top all the way to the bottom has very

much had a similar mentality. It doesn’t break.

Now there is a myth out there that somehow the NBA guys, or the NFL guys or the Olympians

learn something new, or are taught something new or are introduced to certain new things. I can

categorically say to you that that is very, very unlikely. In fact, I doubt that it is even the case at

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all. I’ve seen some things, some times that have somehow gotten involved with, but on a

large scale the thing that you need to understand is that what you are going to get here

this week is completely left field. It's shunned largely by an “Academic” crowd, it’s shunned by

so many other crowds but it’s the reason that I exist, and I do what I do is because it is so

effective. So, in coming here, clear your mind and assume that what you’ve heard, you’ve never

heard before and that what I’m teaching you is correct. Assume it for the sake of your learning

process and you will be able to apply what you are being taught much more quickly.

In terms of setting the structure for the week - now I have to get through all this La-di-dah crap at

the start because we need to have everybody on the same page - we need to build this on a solid

foundation, so I need to get through all of this stuff tonight. I build a learning framework on

something that is known as the Gestalt teaching method or the Gestalt learning method.

Now the Gestalt approach emphasizes that objects are organized into patterns or into blocks and

pieces of information, as opposed to steps that you learn this, then you learn that, as opposed to

the traditional learning framework of you do your 1 times tables, then you do your 2 times tables

then you do your 3 times tables – no – the Gestalt teaching method is the opposite. It bombards

and throws pieces of blocks of information at you, till you get to the point where you know what

I’m saying so well that you could probably go out and teach it for yourself. Now that would be the

ideal situation for me; for me to be sitting here, and teaching you, and to be throwing these

“Gestalts” at you so rapidly and so effectively that you could go out and teach someone else,

because that shows that you have absorbed everything.

The problem with prior learning and teaching methods is simple. People don’t absorb what it is

that they are learning. I’m very repetitive in how I teach, I mean I’m sure by now that you should

have read the Double Your Vertical Leap system… and you should know also how I repetitively

build on one topic. But I can talk about it from so many different angles, that eventually it hits you

and everything becomes clear. Now that’s the Gestalt, it’s the way that the Gestalt teaching

method enables you to learn. So according to this way when we open our eyes we don’t see

fractional particles in disorder – instead, we notice the elephant. It’s not the tusks. It’s not the

trunk of the elephant. It’s not the feet. It’s not the tail. It’s not the big ears. We are seeing the

whole animal. The idea of this is about “grouping”. That’s how we are going to approach it. It’s

how we will approach the Gestalt. It’s all about grouping so - in the laws of how it works, and so

forth there’s: proximity, similarity, closure and simplicity.

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Proximity means that like elements tend to be grouped together, that is,

similar elements tend to be grouped together;

Closure is when I deliver a complete pattern of teaching and then it all

comes into one big block so that kind of closure, it’s the

completeness;

Simplicity is how things are basically worked out. So for example, the

elephant is probably one of the good examples. When we look at an

elephant we see an elephant. We don’t see its tusks. We don’t see its

tail. We don’t see its ears.

So that’s how I teach, and you need to understand that because otherwise you’re going to expect

me to teach in a way that’s similar to high school, in that you sat in high school, you sat in college,

and 10 percent of it went into your brain and the other 90 percent of it passed through that lump

of fat mass in your head, and went out the other ear. That’s obviously not going to work for either

of us. The more I can get these repetitive Gestalts flowing through each lesson and each topic,

the greater the advantage it is going to be to you.

O.K., obviously in doing that - this is the third point on Mandate 2, if your just joining us the third

point on Mandate 2 is pretty simple – we’ve got to lay the foundations on the correct premise

because their are a lot of myths and a lot of lies related to athletic training.

Now after this, I’m going to discuss a couple of the goals and the purpose of why you are here

this week. But, in building on a correct premise - we have all heard the story of the three little

pigs… you know; one built a house of sticks, the other of straw, the other with bricks… you know

this is what we need to do, we need to build this house on bricks. We need to make sure that

things are built on a factual premise - and when I say fact, I mean that very simply it is something

that exists irrespective of your opinion or of my opinion. I harp on that so many times in all of my

writing in all of my client work, throughout Double Your Vertical Leap, throughout a number of

books that I’ve written and reports I have written. Basing your training efforts, basing your

structure, indeed your entire lifestyle, on factual premises that stand irrespective of your

opinion or my opinion on them.

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This is the reason why you can have a training system that someone’s perhaps personally

involved with, or you can have a training system that someone has developed, based on things

that occur outside of their own influence.

Now if you are basing things on something that occurs outside of someone’s own influence, then

no one's got an emotional attachment to them. They exist in reality, by mathematics, by science,

irrespective of if you like it or not. Now, I can tell you that my approach; the UPN concept, the five

components of power that I discuss, are completely left of what anyone else out there is teaching

and that’s what I mean, these things can only be discovered when the old stuff is done away with.

As soon as that “old” teaching, and that “old” method and that old frame of reference is removed,

you’re free to start exploring things based on the facts, as opposed to preconceived ideas that for

years and years and years the athletic world, and indeed, the entire gym culture has been based

on.

As you all know, anybody who has ever been to a gym or has ever laid under a bench press or

has ever stood under a squat rack or has ever sat on a or walked on a treadmill or sat on a

exercise bike, anybody who has ever done one of those things, knows everything about training.

You can argue till your blue in the face, especially a guy, a male who has laid under a bench

press once in his life, that’s it, he knows it all! What can you do to something like that? What is

there that you can do?

This is the same thing that is carried over through this macho fitness industry as much as it is in

the athletic performance industry for coaches, trainers, the whole bit. A lot of my work is on

clearing the old preconceived notions, and clearing the old clutter - that got no one anywhere

anyway - and clearing the old teaching methods and replacing them with things that work, with

things that are new, and with things that are effective, and efficient.

Those are two things that I harp on a lot as well. So when I say building things on a correct

premise, I mean that we need to find on the facts of the matter that exist irrespective of our

opinion of them. The reason that I like all of this stuff is because I have gotten rid of all of that

crap! The stuff that you will find, even people that even people who are teaching about vertical

leap, and there are very few of them, but the people who are out there are a good five years

behind of where I was at 5 years ago. I used to work under all of that stuff. I used to operate with

all of that stuff. I used to teach with all of that stuff. That was 5 years ago, I got rid of it because it

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didn’t work, and that’s how the UPN system came up because it was about establishing facts that

existed irrespective of any-ones opinions.

That’s why there can be no argument to something like that. If something has a factual base, a

factual premise, just like you can’t drive through a red light without stopping, it’s the same way,

you can argue until you are blue in the face. If it’s a red light, and you are going straight through

it, then you are in trouble. This is what I am talking about with facts.

So when I say correct premise, we are going to go through a whole bunch of different topics like,

you know, being able to Squat 2x your body weight before you start using plyometrics, you know

that perhaps a system like mine is only for advanced athletes, things like these are myths. Myths

kind of have this grain of truth in them. Lies are just utter rubbish, utter crap, and you want to get

rid of all that stuff, but before we get into that, how about we talk about the goals and purposes

of this week?

You’ve come here this week, registered over a month ago in good faith that I was going to even

show up which I have done. You know that most people are on this series of calls, as I probably

predicted, are people who already have used the Double Your Vertical Leap System and see the

effectiveness and the efficiency and the way that results come from very quickly with what I do.

Now, there is a simple reason why most - and it’s amusing - there is a simple reason why most of

the people who have purchased to be part of the MasterClass have already used the Double

Your Vertical Leap system, and that’s because they are already familiar with the way that it

works, and that its factual, and based on a factual premise

So when I am talking to you guys, you can probably understand most of what it is that I am saying

because it is in the same context and style that I deliver the volume information, especially

volume one and volume two in Double Your Vertical Leap.

So in terms of goals this week; the goal for you showing up, and based on the MasterClass

submissions that we have received through the portal, is to solidify the unclear components of the

Double Your Vertical Leap system - this is for the regular athletes - and then to build this thing

that I’ve called the 50-Inch Blueprint.

Now, this is a gutsy thing to do. I’m going to be the first one to admit it to you, to say that you can

build a 50-Inch Blueprint is going to be as different from one athlete to the other. So is there one

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blueprint that you do X, Y, Z things and that’s it and that’s my 50 inches? No, it’s not going to

work like that. It’s going to be as much individually catered to you and whether you have a season

o,n or you have this training to go to, or you play that sport, as it is to the next guy that has got to

do this stuff, this that and the other as well.

So this 50-Inch Blueprint that I talk about isn’t something that’s set in concrete, buts it’s just as

individual as the athlete is individual. And the more that I work with athletes, the more that I see

that there is a component where this fine tuning can occur, and provided that they have a number

of the things that we will discuss in the next couple of nights - things like weaving and you know

even things like bridging and weaving, the addition of the UPN plyometrics, and understanding

concepts like those and how to implement them, how to read your recovery level, where you are

at, where you are at metabolically, where your neurological system is at, these things are going to

be important for building that 50-Inch Blueprint. So, the goals for the week are two-pronged in

that; we need to be able to get you to implement the Double Your Vertical Leap System better,

and as I said in the MasterClass Submission Portal, a number of our submissions have been

related to better implementing the Double Your Vertical Leap System. Obviously the system we

have is incredible in that when we offer it on the website, we say you will gain 6 inches in 60 days

or you’ll not only receive your money back but you will also get one hundred dollars cash too.

Now just for your information, we have not given out the refund plus the one hundred dollars yet.

Now you can call that amazing, you can call it what you will, but the fact stands that it’s not

possible for someone to do what’s noted and written and set out in that course and not gain the 6

inches in the 60 days.

I know that I’m dealing with a number of different coaches and athletes from different levels here

tonight, so I realize that some of you claim and think that you don’t even have 60 days or thirty

days indeed to do something like this, however, what you need to understand through some of

the techniques that we are going to discuss, and Gestalt into tomorrow night, we are going to see

that we can add these techniques and see where the leverage points are in the five components

of power development, and then see how you can adjust your training regime, to enhance, to pick

out one of the five elements and build leverage on that element, as opposed to doing all of them

in one, as it is written in the sample program in volume 3.

So, in terms of goals, it’s getting you to implement the flow of Double Your Vertical Leap, what’s

being taught there, not just as the sample program, but implement what’s being taught as the

structure and the flow of it into your training regime. Now, that’s very important because not only

are we having requests like that, but it means that the software and the system has a capacity to

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change and give, based on the athletes requirements, whereas - in the actual system right now -

that flexibility isn’t there, because it hasn’t been outlined. You guys will have that outlined for you.

So it’s a major, major advantage, and arguably being as serious as you are, that’s why athletes,

trainers, and people like you have shown up to this MasterClass because you want to have that

capacity, that flexibility, that freedom to gain results where you otherwise wouldn’t.

Secondly, in building the 50-Inch Blueprint, of course the question mark is going to be - is

everyone going to get a 50-inch vertical leap? The answer, most definitely is no! We can set out a

blueprint that’s based on an athletes ability to read themselves, and to do those things, but their is

no way on God's green earth that I can go out and do and implement the system for you.

Will you receive a 50 inch vertical leap by being part of this MasterClass? You may.

We’ve got nine athletes that have done this, thus far. Most of them are private clients, and a

number, two, two I think have just used the Double Your Vertical Leap System by itself but have

used it exclusively, in an exclusive capacity, without going into too much other training outside of

themselves. A 50-inch vertical leap is an incredible thing to see. It’s absolutely incredible to see,

but it’s not necessary for a career in sports. I’ve never ever said that an incredible leap, even a 50

inch vertical leap, is necessary for a career in sports - I simply don’t believe that,

I think that there are a lot of components out there that are important, or more important, or just

as important. However, for Athlete A to be himself with a 30 inch vertical leap, and Athlete A to be

himself with a 40 inch vertical leap; that 10 inches of leap, or that 5 inches of leap - and if you

know, and if you have trained properly and you have actually, I’m saying this to the kids now, and

you have actually measured your results properly, instead of an inflated expectation of what your

results are - you will know that just two inches of vertical leap will change your game.

It will mean that whatever athletic endeavor you are involved with, you hit that spot, that split

second quicker; you hit that, you’re able to make that cut, you are able to make that move, you

are able to hit that yard, just that one step quicker. Just 2 inches will do that for you. Now 6 inches

is very easy for any athlete and I want you to get that into your head that, in a certain capacity,

not everyone is going to have a 50-inch vertical leap, we all know that. But what we are doing

with the blueprint is we are saying here is how you can further maximize what it is you have as an

athlete, and indeed you can work your numbers backwards, and if you want to put in the time

energy and the effort you can put those, work backwards off those numbers in a similar sense to


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how the 50-inch report is structured, and based on the mathematical frequency, and how I will

introduce you to those concepts that I have talked about just previously you would have seen in

Mandate 3, like bridging, weaving, base repetition, UPN plyometrics, even reverse appropriation

and things of that. Once you can see that those can be incorporated into how you structure your

program, or how you structure your training, you are going to see that you are not just restricted

to the sample program in volume 3, and that is going to be important to you.

The topic this week, sorry the topic for the next two nights tonight, and tomorrow night is the

training component of the MasterClass. So it is important, that we establish the authority of

vertical leap and athletic power output training as is point number 4 on your Mandate number 2

there.

When I talk about the authority of vertical leap and athletic power output training I mean simply

that, when you are training in a vertical plane - as opposed to a horizontal, or a lateral plane, you

know, people will talk about you know the ability to cut back and forth, or sprint speed, or

something like that - when you are training in that vertical plane, that straight up and down plane,

that I much prefer to have athletes train in, you will see that effectiveness and efficiency of

workout is increased dramatically.

Now effectiveness means the result that is put into the body, and efficiency means the time that it

is able to be achieved. They are two key important components to what I teach, effectiveness,

and efficiency, because, as I said in the Double Your Vertical Leap System, largely peoples

problem with their training is reducing the crap that people are doing and not even fully replacing

it, but replacing it with slight little bits of workload that are more targeted, more effective, and

efficient.

So in relation to vertical leap, and to speed, and to power generally, the most effective and

efficient way to address it is through training through the vertical plane. Now the vertical plane

means that you are operating up and down, directly against gravity – that’s what makes it so

efficient and effective. And that’s how you are going to be able to get your results quicker and

through the 5 components of the movement phase of the power development that we are going to

discuss later on.

Comparative and subjective mathematics vs. scientific research. This is an interesting topic.

As I said if you’re just joining us, this is just information on the framework right now. I like this


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topic, I like discussing scientific research and you’ll see that I’ve put that into talking marks there

because it’s quite an amusing topic you see.

I’ve told you from your own experience that anyone who has ever walked into a gym knows

everything about training. So you can’t teach someone about training, or how to train better, or

how to jump higher, or how to run faster unless they are willing to submit to you as a teacher. You

can’t do it, that’s the first point that I have covered. When I talk about scientific, you know

scientific research vs. comparative and subjective mathematics, I’m talking about the traditional

framework, and setting vs. basing things on mathematical equations that you can predict and go

on over time and time again.

Now this is generally what people have - you have a lot of pseudo scientists in training, there is

no doubt about that, there is a lot of pseudo scientists who have quoted a couple of JAMA

journals, a couple of scientific studies here and there and somehow think that their lives are

justified by doing so. This is wrong, this is wrong! Majority of the people are out there, this works

this way and that works that way, these academics and scientific minds, all like to know that such

man said so and so, and this study said this and thus and this and that says thus and so and so

on and so forth - and everybody knows what everybody says but no body has the balls to actually

take one piece of information and stand on it and say this is how it works.

This is where what I teach is different, my job as I have seen it in developing The Vertical Project

has been to sift through, literally like a sift, sift through the academic material, sift through the

scientific studies, see if it’s appropriated in a way that’s relative to athletes and then make a

conclusion based on that, or based on having to scrap it totally.

Clearly, anybody can cite a scientific study and by doing so it seems to make you like official and

well read and well researched and so on and so forth. Also not the case. A lot of the scientific

studies that people cite, have nothing to do with the athlete that they are writing for or that they

are training, and a large number, a large number of trainers do the same thing to make

themselves look legitimate.

You know as well as I know that I very rarely cite scientific studies and I don’t do that for a

number of reasons - the first reason is that science hasn’t studied what I teach. So how can I cite

a study based on it? I very much can’t. So in doing that, there is a reason why science hasn’t

studied what I teach, and that reason is that scientists have to be told and taught where to look

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for what it is that they are drawing their hypothesis about - and their hypothesis if you don’t know,

is their statement that they are trying to find, trying to focus on, or trying to achieve by doing their

study.

Now, if scientists or research people have to be shown, and told, and taught where to look, and

what to look for, what do you think will influence them the most? What do you think it is? It’s going

to be the fact that someone is spending money, to tell them go and look at this, go and do that!

Someone is injecting capital or funds or research funds to do that. Now, most of the research

funding and so on and so forth that’s given to scientists, especially in performance, is given by

supplement companies, and pharmaceutical companies. There is no difference in that either.

So, they are not going to be looking at what it is that I am doing #1, because I am not paying

them millions of dollars to go and do research on it, and #2 I don’t really feel as if we need

justification on it because results are king. Results in the performance world are king! If you

are getting results, your athletes are getting results you are able to put it into a format that works

for you, and is based on mathematics, this principle of mathematics converging with science

somewhere that medium that the two of those hit, that’s what it is you want. You want that

mathematical equation that applies to you and that cannot be argued with. It exists outside of

both of our influences and opinions, and that’s the great thing about it.

Now, in moving along a little bit here, I want to get into these old fallacies that should probably be

in talking marks too. The old fallacies and really setting the framework from where we can go

from here.

Now I’ve said a number of times and if you have listened to me and you’ve read my emails, I’m

not going to rely on the fact that you have, but if you have listened to me for awhile, you will know

that there are two types of athletic power. One is specific power, and one is versatile power,

and this is where basically a number of the training methods that are part of the mainstream, this

is where a lot of them lose their ground and a lot of other things begin to pick up speed, and pick

up relevance, and pick up applicability to your training.

The thing that we need to understand about these two types of power is - as I say in the Double

Your Vertical Leap System, if you go to Volume 1.2 now I will let you go there. Just open it up on

your computer and go into Volume 1.2. I will give you a couple of minutes to get there… Just

volume 1.2, you should have it open now, if you scroll down a little bit, below the five movement

phases of power development, you will see that I have noted that - and I have said that the fact is



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there are at least two types of power, as related to movement and sports for the purpose of this

we will focus on these two types. These two types of power are: specific power, and versatile

power.

This is what I am saying here:

“When dealing with power, it is important that as an athlete, you want and need only versatile

power unless you are a line backer, or someone who makes very few movements.”

And I go into a discussion there about the power lifting mentality, you know the heavy squats,

these types of things that fundamentally don’t allow an athlete to gain athleticism very quickly,

anyway, but I discuss how a power lifter is going to train for a specific movement example: is a

bench press or squat. In power lifting movements their bodies are under load the whole time.

That is, during a squat, at no time is the bar released from the back, and at no time I shall also

add are the feet, leaving the ground and that is important as well, and we will get to that in a

minute.

But, the point I want to get to there is that power doesn’t exist in a vacuum - athletic power and

specifically vertical leap. You can, you might be able to jump high for an athlete, but you also

must be able to jump applicably to the sport that you are playing. Now a power lifter and many

people like to say that how great it is that power lifters can jump 40 inches and they are fat as all

hell, and would never play sport anyway. Sorry if you are a power lifter here on the line with me,

but that’s just the way it is - you can like it, or you can lump it. This is called specific power,

because there is no application to the sporting field. This guy can jump 40 inches - yeah, so

what?? He’s done it because he has a back that is proportionally as strong as his legs which no

athlete should have, because they don’t require it, so these are things you have to look at and

discern within your training because I am telling you if you go into these powerlifting type regimes,

they are eventually going to slow you down, if not they will injure you. It is very simple, because

you are doing something that is versatile, and you are using a "specific", "versatile" - you are

using a specific mode for a versatile result. One does not equal the other, there is no

appropriation there.

My second point that I want to address here is neurology vs. muscularity. Neurology vs.

muscularity is a big part of my Gestalt. Neurology vs. Muscularity - get rid of seeing this idea of

seeing the body with your eyes, and instead see it with your mind.

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Neurologically the body operates down electrical pathways running from the CNS (Central

Nervous System) which is based in the brain. O.K.? There are electrical firing patterns that occur

in the body that there is no point in us getting into because it is just going to go over everyone’s

head and we are just going to lose the applicability of it. The vertical leap is a function of

neurological capacity not of muscular strength. Do you want me to repeat it? The vertical

leap is a function of neurological capacity, and not of muscular strength. Muscular strength can

be divided into different components.

For example: let’s just take a vertical leap, a standing vertical leap, the standard measurement of

the vertical. The two-footed straight up and down jump. The muscles that are involved in that are

many. I mean you have the calves, the shins, the fronts of your thighs, the backs of your thighs,

your butt, your lower back, even your abs and your shoulders and your arm swing all comprise as

part of that movement, right. That’s one electrical current that is occurring there. Just one,

because it goes into the ground and comes back up. It’s your force applied to the ground as you

swing low into the jump, and then jump upwards. It’s one electrical current.

If you are going to train the body into various components by themselves, you are cutting

off the electrical flow. I will repeat it for you again, if you are going to train the body into

separate individual components, for example: the difference here is the difference between doing

a vertical leap vs. a leg extension, or a single leg hyperextension vs. a leg curl. There is no

comparison. A leg curl is going to kill your results, a single leg hyperextension on a flat

hyperextension bench - which I’ll acknowledge people are finding difficult to find an old machine,

that can be difficult to find, but if you can find them - that single-legged hyperextension is

something that is incredible for the vertical leap. That aside, I’m not going to take the side bar and

start discussing exercises because I don’t think that’s what this week is for.

The neurological capacity of the vertical jump has nothing to do with the segments of the muscles

that are involved with it. So you don’t want to be cutting things off, and viewing the body as a

series of muscles and groups. You want to be working the m in a way that they are all grouped

together to achieve, in a sense, the similar movement anyway. Now, that’s where a movement

like the single leg hyperextensions, like the standard vertical jump, like the max height jumps as

we call them, like the calf jump curls with the single leg - these types of things encourage the

body to move as a body in one neurological system as opposed to a divided and a split system,

which if you are going to allow the body to go into that, you are going to see that what happens

with the body is that it cuts off the neurological flow, because the flow goes through evenly. Now if

you go and train the hamstrings differently then what you train the calves, then the flow that goes

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through both of those - you might do higher reps for calves, and lower reps for your hamstrings -

the neurological flow changes as it goes through the calves through the hamstrings and back into

the central nervous system and down again. So it will have to go through the nervous system

twice which we don’t need to go into now. But, if you are going to segment the body into different

components, you are already cutting the flow and making the flow have to change its electrical

flow at each different muscle group it arrives at.

So it’s important that you use the types of training modes and exercises that I provide within the

Double Your Vertical Leap System because by splitting up your training into body parts and so on

and so forth, you are going to cut the neurological efficiency of the body and thus cut the

effectiveness of the UPN component and cut the effectiveness of starting acceleration,

progressive acceleration, power output, recoordination, the whole bit. You cut it - and if someone

is not achieving the results with the system that as it stands using the power output, following the

sample regime that we have required you to implement as part of the Double Your Vertical Leap

System, then the reason is because they are either not finding their UPN's properly, or they are

changing and addressing the program as they see fit.

Now, this is another thing that I need to address to establish this frame of reference that we will

use the rest of the week. Don’t change what’s been written, because it assumes that you are the

teacher and I am the student or something like that, that somehow my work needs to be adjusted

because you somehow know better. If that is the case, then you would be sitting in this seat, and I

would be sitting in your seat. I can tell you that. If there was someone I could learn from, I would

be sitting in on their MasterClass. In relation to vertical leap, there is no body that I can learn

from, O.K. In relation to vertical leap, so long as I’m alive, you will always be able to learn from

me.

I want you to get that clear in your own mind for your own sake. This is not for boasting sake, this

is not for some kind of warped view of arrogance to say, this is for your own learning sake. Don’t

go adjusting the program and fitting it to your own needs, and splitting up one part of the training

in the morning, and one part of the training at night, if you are not getting through it in an hour or

45 minutes, then you are doing something wrong! So, don’t go splitting it up. Don’t do that, it’s set

neurologically, the program is set neurologically, you will see how I go through the program, the

volume 3.3 program that’s the sample program in there, and it’s set like that for a reason, and it’s

set like that to address the five components of the movement phases which are listed in volume

1.2, and which are important and which can be leveraged differently to each athlete as per their

situation requires.



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In terms of these 5 components of the vertical leap and developing the movement, developing it

not only in how many inches you can gain, but in some people it’s correcting their form and doing

this properly, to start with, so they can be explosive - I discuss 5 points. The five points you

should know are:

1) Starting Acceleration

2) Progressive Acceleration

3) Power Output Training

4) Fixation Stabilization which - this is a secret for you - is slightly irrelevant and

5) Recoordination which is important as well.

Now when it comes to something like Starting Acceleration vs. Progressive Acceleration, this has

been a point that I think people might have gotten confused on.

Starting Acceleration, the training that addresses Starting Acceleration, is that which

addresses the movement at its commencement. You will notice that in volume 3.3, if you go

there now - that’s the sample workout that’s included in the Double Your Vertical Leap System -

you will notice that I address Starting Acceleration basically as the first modality that is addressed

as part of the program. Now, we do some active warm-up things and stuff like that, we do things

like the side leg raises, and all that stuff, fair enough, that’s not Starting Acceleration. The Starting

Acceleration things include the Box Squats at the percentages, and so on and so forth. Starting

Acceleration is very important, I don’t think you should cut it out from what it is that you are

doing… because of the way it is structured. Starting Acceleration point always addresses the

bottom initiation of the Vertical Leap. So, as you know, in the seated Box Squat that you do, that

you are required to perform as part of it, you start at what you call a “Dead Start” meaning that

there is more attention to quick tension very quickly. O.K. That’s what Starting Acceleration is

addressing, it’s addressing that ability to go from the bottom of the movement and explode – bang

– upwards very quickly O.K.? It’s not addressing other than perhaps the first inch or two of your


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hips moving upwards in the leap movement or any power movement O.K.? It’s only addressing

that kick off ability O.K.? It’s not designed to wear you out. If it wears you out that’s a problem,

and that’s the same for Power Output training as well. If it wears you out that’s a problem.

Starting Acceleration has to be addressed always from a dead start. O,K. and it has to be very

powerful, very, very powerful. You have to do things starting from a relaxed state and shift

quickly, very quickly into an explosion. That’s how it becomes effective.

From there you move onto which is probably the component that can be leveraged for many of

you that are in on this MasterClass series, and indeed for athletes generally, people who are

already using the power output equation in their training, for them, the point where they can

leverage their training without a doubt is Progressive Acceleration phase. Because, that’s a

really interesting one, because it means that as you are rising up, out of the Starting Acceleration

phase, as you are rising up, you are rising up quicker and quicker, as opposed to slower.

Now what I’ve just said to rise up quicker and quicker, as opposed to rise up slower and slower

may not make much sense to you, until you consider how the majority of how the majority of the

vertical leap training is achieved or even just regular weight training is done. If you consider the

squat, even the box squat - the box squat that we use for Starting Acceleration - as you rise up, to

the top of the movement, to be standing at lock out virtually, you notice that you don’t leave the

ground. What’s happened there? What’s happened physiologically? What’s happened, more

importantly, neurologically? Let me answer it – what’s happened is your body as its risen up has

started up extremely powerful, but as its risen up, you’ve put the “brakes” on it, to stop yourself

from jumping, to stop yourself from leaving the ground. Otherwise you would leave the ground,

because the weights you are using for the box squat at any rate, aren’t heavy enough to for you

to stay necessarily on the ground, you could jump them if you wanted to. But what’s happened is

that you have subconsciously, through your neurological system, through your brain, not through

your muscles, but through your brain, you have halted yourself, and you have “braked” yourself.

That’s important because that means as you are rising higher, higher, and higher your

acceleration is deceleration, you are not accelerating.

Are you following me?

As you raise higher and higher in that movement, in a regular squat, unless you release the

tension and you go for your maximum height, you are decelerating. Now that means that… I

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mean I’ve seen it a number of times, rapid changes can be made in an athlete’s ability to be

powerful just by addressing the Progressive Acceleration phase properly.

Progressive Acceleration means that the higher you go, the faster you go up, and the

higher you reach. Now, as I’ve said to you in a regular movement, the higher you go the slower

you go, because you are putting the brakes on yourself subconsciously. You want to be putting

the acceleration on yourself so that you speed up as you get higher. That’s not to say that you are

not quick at the bottom, it’s to say that you are explosive the whole way through and don’t have

that subconscious braking on yourself, that prevents you from jumping at your highest and

reaching your maximum.

The only, the only way that - unless we decided to turn gravity upside down for a bit, or train

upside down - the only way to train for Progressive Acceleration is in water. Now we are

going to get into a lot more of that stuff tomorrow, but just for you to establish this base for

tomorrow, and probably for the rest of the week, because I think that it is so important based on

the submissions that we have as well from the submission portal, Progressive Acceleration for

many of you, and indeed for many athletes generally, is going to be the point where you can

leverage your vertical gains where you may not have been able to previously, and while you are

in-season and things like that which has been a common question. Alright? So we are going to be

getting into that in more depth tomorrow.

Wow still got a lot of stuff to do, and we are already an hour through. So let me move onto

Power Output now. Power Output, that’s the UPN component of the training system. I’ve got a

number … that the way I’m structuring this is that I am teaching for an hour, and then I’m moving

onto Case Studies and Submission portal questions for an hour, so I am going to keep kicking on

here. I told you that I am going to go overtime on most of these courses, on most of these

evenings rather. There’s a couple of reasons for that, #1 we’ve got so much to get through. #2 I

like to over-deliver; I like to make sure that I give you more than what you came for. It’s important,

it is going to be important for you, and it’s going to mean that you get more out of this and that

your results are ensured over time.

So let’s move onto Power Output. Power Output, power has always been expressed - and

everybody will tell you this, every Tom, Dick, and Harry will tell you - that Power = Force x

velocity, or Mass x Acceleration. This is the mathematical expression of power. Don’t you know

that you Doofus?

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Power = Force x Velocity

Well, that’s nice. That’s nice to know. But what does that mean? If someone is going to say that.

then why is it that they are not addressing each component of the equation? Clearly, when you

look at the words Velocity or Acceleration, and I actually teach the equation as being different, but

let’s use the standard one. You’ve got your pen and paper in front of you; I want you to do this. I

want you to write:

Power = Force x Velocity

(Mass x Acceleration)

So Mass should be under Force, and Acceleration should be under Velocity, right? Circle Velocity

and Acceleration for me please. O.K. those two components which are basically saying the same

thing, those two components are functions of time. Let me repeat it, Velocity and Acceleration

are functional units of time. Think about it - Time! If time is not taken into consideration in

whatever type of training that you do, you are not going to be able to systematically over time,

know if you are increasing your power or not. I will repeat that because we had a bit of a cutting in

there. If your training is not addressing the unit of time, then there is no way that you’re

going to know if you are increasing power or not. Now, I don’t get into public arguments, in

fact I very rarely do public seminars or attend anything like that, because I don’t want to know

about it, because it’s so far off the fact that it’s a problem, that so many people are misled down

that path. I don’t want to get into arguments with people because I don’t warrant my talents to

argue with them. They are not addressing the power component through the time component of

power. This is where Power Output has to be addressed through timing. This is why the UPN

system is used to address Power Output, because it’s a function of time. I’m saying this based on

experience based on the use of the Double Your Vertical Leap system, and based on and so

many athletes that we’ve had, be able to improve their training abilities over time. What it is that

we are seeing is that, as time decreases through the training efforts that people are using and

displaying, as time decreases, results increase. I will say it again, as time decreases, results

increase. And that’s why the UPN system works so well, and as well as it does, and that’s why

it’s so important for you or your athletes to have that UPN component in there, and to use it

properly.


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Now this is all high-impact stuff, and it’s important that the athlete you know at certain times of

their career or at certain times of the season doesn’t have too much high-impact stuff, but I’m

going to address that tomorrow, O.K.?

Fixation and Stabilization - I’m kind of not too much of a big fan of that, though I do think that

Fixation and Stabilization are important to a lot of athletes and there’s a clear reason for this. I

don’t really want to get into it, to be honest with you, but the reason is; it’s like a car needing a

wheel alignment check or something like that. If the wheels are not aligned, then the power, and

the effort, and the thing that’s driving the car isn’t going to allow the car to drive at full capacity or

to channel its power through the plane that it needs to travel through. So everybody knows that

when they are driving their car and as it’s happening, they are going ahead, they are moving

ahead, if the wheels are not aligned, then you are going to use more fuel to get to the same

place. That just basically means that power is dispersed unevenly – it’s the same for the athlete,

think of it as an athlete - power is dispersed unevenly and it’s not going through the right channel.

There is no other application for stability and fixation training to the athlete. There is none. It is

only to help them align their wheels and get them into the track where they are channeling all

their power through the right movement.

Now for some athletes, I’d say younger athletes, or less experienced athletes, less capable

athletes, fixation training is going to play a role. But as it was touted 3 or 4 years ago, Fixation

training isn’t the be all, end all that it came to be and, in fact, it’s not really that important to

athletes at high levels, or people that know how to jump, know how to run, athletes that are

playing at the top levels because their bodies are being taught to stabilize just by competing in

their sports, and competing in their endeavors anyway. So, that’s a component that’s important

but, you know, all five components are important, but I don’t think it’s worth harping on.

Recoordination is an interesting one. It’s the fifth component, and it’s probably, it’s the final

one, the component that you need to address in a training program. Most people address that

stuff, that Recoordination training at the start of a training session. This is neurologically flawed.

There is a very good reason for that. If you are going to train an athlete through Recoordination at

the start of their training session when they are so called “fresh”, then the body works on a default

of what it last did, neurologically. That’s the way it works, because you are rewiring the

neurological system, so that’s why you know I’ve been telling you about reverse appropriation

with the specific exercises like the leg extension vs. the squat vs. the max height jump, or the

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single leg hyperextension vs. the leg curl. You’re programming athletes to neurologically work

differently if you are going to put their Recoordination work at the start of the training session.

You want to put that at the end simply because that’s the movement that they are using when

they are in competition or whether it is football, basketball, track, anything like that. That

Recoordination component of their training needs to be at the end because that’s the, if you will,

“extra neurological wiring” that allows the athlete, mentally on a subconscious level, apply the

training that they received back to the court, to the track, to the field and to the movements that

they would naturally be participating in, with whatever sport it is that they are part of. It’s

important that that’s last and not first. Obviously that is another bone that I have had to pick at the

traditionalists, but it’s the way that it works, you know?

So these are the things that we are going to be addressing this week. Basically when we are

addressing Recoordination, specifically, and when I am addressing Power Output, more is going

to come out of the discussion that we have based on the Case Studies. Now a lot of the work I’ve

received in the last well.. well I'll say except for today, we've taken all the submissions from the

portal and we’ve put them into the course thus far. So, what you are going to see is that when I

teach on my Gestalts, my first hour where I just get to sit here, and go on and on and on and on,

as I’ve been doing, you are going to see that the second hour is going to be, it will not only

complement that but put it into a perspective that you can go out and apply and so on and so

forth. But you are going to see that it’s going to address the same topics, it’s going to address the

same things and really allow you, allow me to beat to death the topics and allow you to

understand it in a way that you can go out and discuss it with someone afterwards. O.K.? They

are the goals, that’s where we are heading right now. It's the premise. We've laid the ground work

here you know. So, I’m going to take 30 seconds now, and move into the case studies. I hope

you guys are doing well. If you need to get up, go to the bathroom, get a drink, get out of your

seat, take the phone away from your ear for a little bit, you should go and do that now.

I am going to get a quick drink. I’m going to stay on the line, but I’m just going to have a quick

drink and I want you guys to just kind of sit there and I want you to get done the things you need

to get done that are going to prevent you from listening properly. Alright we will be kicking off on

the Case Studies in a little bit.

In the meantime, the interesting thing you will find is that with the Case Studies, a lot of different

material will come out, but it will be related to the same topics. So, it is going to reinforce learning

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and that’s a big part of the learning curve; to see the elephant for its tusks, for its ears and for its

big snout, and for its tail and everything that it is, you know.

We need to approach these things from all these angles to make sure that your learning properly

and to make sure that everything is being assimilated and that’s why your going to get these calls

recorded, you’re going to be able to go over these things repetitively because it’s the best way

you’re going to be able to apply this to your training, and to your lifestyle, even your entire life so

that your training is maximized.

O.K. I want to kick into some Case Studies now, were just starting section 2 and I’ve gone an

hour and about ten minutes due to introduction and I’ve probably gone for an hour and five

minutes tonight on section 1. Section 2 is going to be slightly different, it’s going to be based on

the Case Studies and the MasterClass Submission portals, Portal Submissions that we’ve had.

The interesting thing about these is that you are going to be able to have your questions

answered in a way that relates to the topic that we are discussing tonight.

So, not everybody’s things are going to be answered, there is a reason for that. I’m going to

address every topic that comes through the portal or comes to the portal. Some of them that

come through now, it might be difficult to work them in, but the topics that are coming through, are

generally repetitive, in that they tend to repeat themselves, and are generally going to be covered

by one persons questions or the other. O.K.? So, if you don’t hear your specific name or whatever

it is or your specific question coming up, then generally it is because your question will be

answered in either the body of what it is that I've discussed previously in my Gestalts, or within

the body of someone else's question. So tonight, this discussion on basing… you know we’ve

wanted to set the framework for the rest of the week. Tonight we want to get into the submissions

that address simple things like, use of weight belts, UPN, how the UPN and time under tension

works, how something can be arranged for adjusting the UPN's and real basic Power Output

UPN structure stuff. I want to hit that stuff really hard because I want to make sure everyone is

getting it – it’s only with this stuff that we are going to be able to move onto other things tomorrow

night because this is the basis for it.

I’ve got a question here. This question is related to definitely the stuff tonight I want to get into.

This is from Ben.

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Ben asks: In relation to the weight belts during the sample program, (I talk a lot about adding this

weight belt) I wanted to this is a direct quote from Ben "I wanted to make sure to note that when I

was using the weight belt I was holding the extra weight as described, counting the weight belt as

my own body weight. This made the UPN exercises extremely difficult since I was using the

Advanced Charts."

Luke: Now, that’s a break in a paragraph there put in by Jason. I need to address, the UPN, the

weight belt, the adjusting of weight through the UPN, through adding the UPN to your training

system, and how that affects the athlete as a whole.

I’ll just pull this question up here right now and take a side bar. Ben has said: "using the weight

belt made the UPN exercises extremely difficult especially since I was using the advanced

charts." This is a problem, the UPN exercises have to be performed in a certain way. They are

the Uncompromised Performance Number, and they have to relate specifically to your own Power

Output capacity as is subjective to your performance, O.K.?

Ben, to answer your question and to those of you who are wondering, if your UPN exercises are

extremely difficult because you are using the advanced chart or the weight belt, you either

shouldn't be using the advanced charts, or the weight belt has got to much weight on it.

The UPN, by its very nature, can't be compromised. It’s called an uncompromised performance

number. You can’t go out and think that by adding extra weight or doing the advanced chart that

you’re somehow going to be better off. You’re going to be worse off if you don’t follow it properly.

It’s fine to use the weight belt during the day or hold onto it or whatever, but it’s not going to assist

you in your training if you are not performing the UPN for what it is, which is this uncompromised

ability for you to express power, through the movements of what it is, whatever movement it is

that tends to be a key few movements that we use in the sample program but for whatever

movement it is that requires the UPN.

So let’s go over the UPN again, I want you to go to volume 1.4, O.K.?

You should have Double Your Vertical Leap open on your computer screen right now, and if not

you may have it printed off. I want you to go to volume 1.4, I’ll let you have a minute or two to get

there and I’m going to get into the discussion of the UPN here. If you scroll down, and you get

past the Power Output equations that I've noted there, keep scrolling past those Power Output


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equations, and you will get to a point where it says 1) Bodyweight 2) Maximum Squat 1rm 3)

Maximum Bench Press 1rm, spotter required for all this stuff.

4) Uncompromised Performance Number - there has been some confusion on this so I think it’s

worth correcting. The Uncompromised Performance Number UPN is expressed as the amount of

perfect repetitions minus 1. O.K.? Perfect repetitions - what is a perfect repetition? A perfect

repetition is the highest reaching, fastest, quickest movement that an athlete is capable of

sustaining for a certain amount of reps. O.K. so that perfect repetition is the highest reaching,

fastest moving, the quickest reps that an athlete is able to perform.

Let’s use an example - the Maximum Height Jump. The standard vertical jump right? Your

standing there, you jump, you reach for your maximum height, upon landing you straight back up

again, reaching for that maximal height, reaching quickly upon landing - people will want to go

into this being the amortization phase and all this kind of stuff, that’s rubbish, get rid of all of this,

there is a lot of garbage out there, don’t worry about all that stuff – I’m just going to say, getting

off the ground quick and still hitting high, as high as you can hit, it won’t necessarily be your

vertical leaps height, but your vertical might be 30 inches, and your only getting 26 inches on

these repetitive jumps.

But the focus for you has to be on responding quickly off the ground, hitting the ground and hitting

back off quickly, and jumping to your maximum height. As soon as you hit that point where your

response to the ground is slower, or you’re not reaching as high as you can possibly touch, as

high as you can possibly reach, as quickly as you can, you have hit the “point of compromise”.

It's very important that we understand this point of compromization… where it hits, how it

guarantees individuality to your workout because if you’re using the UPN, and the UPN's are not

working for you, or they haven’t worked for you, which I haven’t had any reports of that on this

MasterClass, but the only reason that they cannot work for you is basically that if you are stuffing

them up.

So I can clarify these points for you so this is what I want to do for Ben here because clearly, I’m

not ripping you out Ben or anything like that, but clearly by understanding, your understanding of

UPN means that you've compromised them. If you’re compromising them because you’re adding

a weight belt, or you’re adding the advanced charts or something like that, then you know you’re

not at that Uncompromised Performance Number, you’re at a CPN a Compromised Performance

Number, so it’s not a UPN anymore.

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The UPN is where you hit that point of compromise, it might be 6 reps right? You hit the sixth and

you feel like “I’m not getting as high, I’m not getting off the ground as fast”, you hit that number,

that’s the point of compromise and you take off 1… because obviously you want to be at the point

of Uncompromised Performance, no compromise at all. If you hit compromise at 6, that means

that 5 is where you weren’t compromised.

So you take that as your UPN. 5 is probably the lowest UPN we have, I’m not going to get into

that now, but 5 is the lowest valid UPN you can have - so let’s say you have hit 5. Don’t worry

about adding the advanced charts, the weight belt, all this extra stuff that looks like add-ons and

appears to be adding results to you, it’s not necessarily adding results, unless your power output,

and your vertical is increasing with it. And that’s an important thing for you to understand is that

when you are training, when you are going into the gym or wherever it is that you’re training, you

don’t want to feel like your coming out of it stuffed, you don’t want to feel totally screwed.

Because the entire point of this Uncompromised Performance Number is that you never actually

train the neurological system past its validity. In doing that, you are not wearing the body out, and

that’s an important thing to understand because some coaches out there, especially you guys

that have got professional athletes, or you've got Olympic athletes that you work with, you are

going to be worried about the load and the impact that the athletes taking upon landing and doing

this repetitious stuff - there is not so much of a worry because the way that the charts work, is that

the reps actually decrease, but the time and the rest is a manipulated function, as too is the

weight that you carry with the body as well.

O.K. so Ben's gone onto say in the next paragraph here that “It actually got on to the point that I

was unable to complete the exercises at maximum speed, and height, and I was unsure of how to

make adjustments. I was unsure of what I was doing wrong, what adjustments do I need to make

for next time?"

If you’re not able to complete the UPN as an Uncompromised Performance Number, not a

Compromised Performance Number, but a UPN, not a CPN if you want to put it like that, then

that’s your adjustment. You have got to get rid of that weight belt, and you have got to go back to

the basic charts.

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The second component of this training here is… I’ve got a question here from Kyle, and this going

to be relating to, this is all going to be relating to UPN's and applying UPN's and applying training

and so forth.

Kyle says: I have been working out and playing sports my whole life, especially basketball. I have

always dreamed of slam dunking on a fast break or over another player.

Luke says: That’s pretty similar for most basketballers.

Kyle says: I can grab the rim with my fingertips after a quick step up, I am 24 years old, 5'11, and

160 lbs. I feel like I’ve stopped gaining vertical, or it takes a lot to get higher. Also I like to lift

weights 3-4 times a week, I ride my bike…

Luke says: I’ve put a big red question mark there.

Kyle says: and play sports, and I consider myself to be a highly advanced athlete. I don’t want to

lose weight, or become skinny just to jump higher, I would like to get bigger, stronger, and faster.

If I could jump 40 inches, let alone 50 inches, I would be slam dunking on bigger, stronger

players.

Luke says: Of course, you would.

Righty-O, the point I want to make here is Kyle, is I’m not to sure what validity you see in riding

your bike, unless you are trying to lose body fat or you enjoy doing it. But, it’s not going to help

your vertical leap. Not one bit. It’s going to re-program your body into being weaker, and your

neurological system into charging through less electrical current through what primarily lifts you

off the ground, so I would probably cut out the bike first.

When you say you like to lift weights 3-4 times a week, that’s fantastic. Are you lifting them in

regards to the Double Your Vertical Leap System, or are you just lifting weights, you know in a

certain bodybuilding, to-failure type of thing? You've got to look at these things.

If you are going to be doing this to increase your vertical leap, I’d cut out the bike first, you’re

going to add lean muscle, you are definitely going to add lean muscle. I know we don’t talk a lot

about that in regards to vertical leap, but what you are going to see is that you are going to drop


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body fat percentage, and that you are going to add lean muscle simply because the training

component of what we do actually encourages muscle density, fiber density, because of

hyperplasia, that some people don’t think exists, but we are not going to get into that. The fiber

density increases, because the motor units have increased. And, because you get to that high

tension on the tension-release exercises you are actually splitting the fibers, so you increase the

propensity for muscular density, The Window Plan addresses your recovery and addresses the

cell breakdown that occurs within the muscle, which isn’t completely a big deal for vertical leap

athletes, but you will notice that your vertical leap will increase if you go ahead and you apply the

Double Your Vertical Leap System. You have to apply it with rigidity, and you have to apply it…. if

you say this is your last attempt to increase your vertical, start to become a little bit extreme with

it. I wrote a report a couple of weeks ago, I call it the Polarization Method, and I think that you

should probably read that because if you want to prioritize yourself, you like to do this, you like to

do that, you like to do a bit of this, then it’s not going to work out for you. You need to be getting

to a point where you can say, “O.K. I’m going to go all out for the vertical stuff, and I am going to

do it properly.”

Moving on here… I’ve got something here about adding the weight, the UPN, these types of

things, o.k. This is from Tasha, O.K.

Tasha: … I’m also using the hypergravity weight belt you told us to use a while back. I’m

currently wearing an extra 15 lbs around my waist, and I also just started doing the super hops.

I’m not completely sure what my vertical is of right now, but I can definitely see improvements in

my vertical, I think around 6 or 7 inches, but I haven’t taken the belt off to see.

Luke: O.K. in terms of that hypergravity weight belt, I‘m going to repeat this again: you cannot

use that and be compromising your UPN's - don’t even bother. Use it and adjust your UPN as you

see fit, but the UPN for most athletes should be adjusted roughly every phase. So the end of

each phase occurs after 5 weeks, we have a little bridge there of the water plyometrics and so on

and so forth, but you need to adjust the UPN, I’d say after each phase, I think that’s what Jason

also tells people that write in to us and so on, so you need to make sure that when you are using

the UPN's, they are not being compromised by you adding the extra weight on the weight belt,

because it is going to nullify the whole thing. O.K. that’s another one…

Tasha: Can you please go into super detail about the UPN's? I’m still not sure I totally grasp them

and maybe, please explain how you find your UPN on the perfect number.


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Luke: The UPN is just as I said, it has got to be uncompromised. You've got, you know the

exercises from the software, the key component there is using your maximum effort at your

maximum height, at your maximum speed, so when you are using these exercises that are

described in the software, in the system, its maximum height, maximum speed, minimum time on

the floor - once either of those or all of those components at once are compromised, you have hit

the point of compromise. That’s it, you minus 1, and you’ve got your Uncompromised

Performance Number.

This is very critical to the entire system. Very critical because the power output exercises

definitely take advantage of the miotatic stretch reflex where the body is lifted off the ground and

upon landing and re-jumping again, as I call it, upon that re-jump there is a quick explosion of

transferred energy from the eccentric portion, the lowering of the landing, back into the concentric

of the lifting up of the jump. So that miotatic stretch reflex is very important, it’s something that we

don’t need to go into because you guys being on this call are probably too far advanced for that

right now and it’s something that is explained within the software as well. I want to go into a

couple more that we have here for tonight…

O.K. this is from Jeff, Jeff's got a couple of questions. He actually has a few questions here, and

we can go into all of them, but I've said to you guys I’m going to be addressing issues as they

relate to the content of the night. O.K. that’s important for the learning process for both yourself,

and for me… so don’t get discouraged if you don’t hear all of your questions, or you don’t hear

your questions or you don’t hear whatever. You’re going to get them, there going to be all woven

into the structure of the course so that you can be satisfied with it. O.K. here is the question, and I

want you to keep listening even if it’s not your question it’s going to allow you to you know, have

that information seep further into your mind so that it changes the way you approach and you

apply the systems the way I describe…

Jeff asks: If time is an issue in the weight room because of competing, practicing, stretching,

eating, sleeping, endurance training…

Hmm, I don’t like that

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Jeff asks: … what exercises should be dropped during the workout? I am speculating that I

should keep the partials and isometrics, and I should drop the explosive 50 % 1RM exercises

which ones should be dropped?

Luke says: O.K. Now let me make a couple of notes on here. The 50 % 1RM exercises that he is

describing are the ones that address Starting Acceleration, the partials address in a certain sense

they address Progressive Acceleration but they actually address strength, and isometrics

definitely address the ability to contract stronger as the movement rises. It is addressing

progressive Acceleration, but because of the time under the load, the time under tension of each

of those movements it’s actually addressing the ability to focus a more intense contraction into

that area or those muscle groups that are being worked, that neurological group that is being

worked, through a certain amount of time. So when the time starts off at 8 seconds in week 1, you

are teaching the body to focus all that electrical charge through that 8 seconds, then it’s 6

seconds, then it’s 4 seconds, you are teaching the intensity of the contraction to increase in a

smaller amount of time, that’s what power is.

Smaller amount of time, more is achieved. O.K. so here Jeff’s speculating that he should keep the

partials and isometrics and drop the explosive 1RM exercises. I wouldn’t be doing that, I would

probably be dropping the partials, the isometrics are very good, you will notice Jeff that through

the structure of the program, and I know your stuff has come up pretty regularly – you’re a tennis

player and these things, and I know that you have had some liaison with us, prior as well. You

should definitely, definitely be keeping the isometrics, and definitely the Starting Acceleration

movements, and if you have to - drop the partials. I hate to say cut any part of the system out. I

don’t think that by using the system you are going to be wearing yourself out, but the partials in a

muscular sense are going to wear the muscle out more then the isometrics, and the Starting

Acceleration movements are.

So I’m thinking that by what your question is, you know this time issue of being in the weight room

and all these other things that you have to do, I’m assuming, based on your question, that you’re

concern is that you’re getting too tired. The partials will wear you out more than the isometrics,

and the Starting Acceleration exercises, so keep the Starting Acceleration exercises there,

because the reason for that is at the base of the movement, you want to be explosive. As a tennis

player you’re basically in a squat when you are returning serve, so you want to be able to explode

quickly out of that, and I’ve taught a number of tennis players, Australian, and so on and so forth

that those Starting Acceleration movements are very important to a tennis player. I know you’ve

got a number of other questions here.

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Jeff asks: Should I do more single-leg exercises since I never am jumping or moving off two legs

in tennis?

Luke replies: I’ve got to question that, I don’t see how you are not moving off two legs, but you

can do some certain single leg movements, but I would focus just on what the structure is of the

system. Try to implement it well where you can. It is important to work the body with both legs, as

it is for single legs because, you know obviously you are a human being with two arms and two

legs, that’s just a neurological function of your body, I guess that’s the frame of reference that I

don’t want you thinking at having that somehow single leg movements are better then double leg

movements. One is not better than the other; both compliment and assist each other, so I want

you to keep it at that.

Moving along now. This is still Jeff asking these questions. I think that a number of these are

brought up by other people so I want to answer these ones here, and that way the people that

have asked the questions previously and have also asked the same questions, we can address it

all in one block. O.K. so the next question is.

Jeff asks: When doing the Starting Acceleration exercise, for example, the High Pulls, should the

feet leave the ground by the momentum caused by the lift or should the feet stay firmly planted no

matter what?

Luke replies: The nature of the Starting Acceleration exercises is that you will probably rise up on

your toes for things like the Box Squat, things like the High Pulls, for a lot of those semi-Olympic

movements that we use with very light weights only to address that Starting Acceleration phase…

you are going to leave the ground a little bit.

Because of the amount of weight that you using, and hopefully with the good form that you are

using this isn’t going to be too much of a stress. So focus on that speed, and that power, that you

need for the Starting Acceleration. Focus on as you’re about to commence the movement on kind

of relaxing your body, whether it’s for the squat always keep your transverse abdominus tight,

whether it’s that Box Squat, just for that split second, feel a calmness - not a relax because I don’t

want you to curve your spine or anything like that - but a calmness that says I’m released, then –

smack – I’m up. I’ve exploded up, that’s what the Starting Acceleration phase is. It’s addressing

that dead start, and that’s the nature of it. So don’t focus on whether your feet are leaving the

ground or not. They won’t leave the ground completely, you will get up on your toes a little bit on

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those ones, but focus on moving rapidly from dead, I mean relaxed, I mean calm, to very, very

instantaneously explosive.

O.K. moving on here…

Jeff asks: If there is one exercise to increase vertical is it still Single Leg Hyperextensions? Why

can’t you do these everyday if you never go over the point of compromise?

Luke: This is a common question, related to the whole UPN nature of things that I discuss in

volume 1. Every kind of coach, and trainer, and athlete, and all these people that I deal with

personally as well, all of these people have asked me “Well if you don’t go beyond the point of

compromise then why don’t we do this ten times a day?”

Well that’s kind of not the point. The point I am making is that, well if I can do it three times a

week, well why can’t I do it five times a week, or why cant I do it every day, seven days a week?

There is no definitive answer for that, I just know what works. I can’t give you the complete

answer on why that might not be the case why these by moving underneath, under the radar of

that compromise, by not crossing it, that you’re not going to affect your body too much, or your

not going to affect it in a damaging way… but irrespective if it’s single leg hyperextensions or not

right now, why can’t you do any of these power output exercises everyday if you never go over

the point of compromise?

My answer to that is for Neurological Facilitation. Now I cannot say completely whether or not

these exercises could be done everyday, or couldn’t, I wouldn’t bother to try it with an athlete to

do it everyday because I know that an athlete, being the kind of people they are, they have a

number of other physical tasks that they undertake in a day even a young athlete, a high school

athlete, so you’re going to get to a point where you are overtraining and the training isn’t going to

be as effective. It still might be efficient, but it’s not as effective, so the point of compromise is a

delicate thing because it’s based on the neurological system which is notoriously, a bodily system

that recovers slowly, actually, so you want to take the time, take a rest day in between or

whatever, and allow your body to give it some time to rest and recover. I mean it’s not the same

as addressing the muscular, you know muscle growth, and muscle repair and things like that,

where 72 hours or 48 hours is what everybody knows - this is a completely different thing so don’t

go thinking like that.

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That that point of compromise is there because you don’t want to cross it. So if you are going to

go out everyday and do a exercise, you are eventually going to hit the point where your

neurological system isn’t going to respond, as it might because it's not getting rested properly, so

it is better to take the rest, than it is to risk tip-toeing the line of tipping over, of tipping over that

point of compromise and not being able to rectify the situation. I would never have anyone doing

these things everyday, I mean let alone someone who is a serious athlete who is undertaking a

number of other tasks. I think that effort can be exerted otherwise than to keep doing UPN

training day in and day out you know?

The other part of the question was if there is one exercise to increase vertical is it still single-leg

hyperextensions? Let me just put it this way, single leg hyperextensions, actually aren't for

increasing vertical leap, they are for increasing single leg athletic power output. Which is basically

running leap, not vertical leap as such, they are much better, I mean obviously like I said to you,

they go hand in hand, but they are much better for addressing the single leg, running, jumping,

running, accelerating, running, cutting movements, than for increasing just straight up and down

standing vertical jump capacity, so I wouldn't say that the single leg hyperextension is the vertical

leap exercise, I think it is the running leap exercise, it is the king of the running leap exercises but

I think that the king of the vertical leap exercises is the maximum height jump. There is no doubt

about that - it's the same movement as the vertical leap, it is not a squat, it is not a deadlift, it is

not a power clean, and it is not a high pull. It's not any of those things, it's something as simple as

the Maximum Height Jump - it's the vertical leap itself - the key exercise for increasing vertical

leap.

Let me get on to a couple of more questions here, I have got an interesting one that everyone is

going to enjoy listening to in a minute but, I want to get onto a couple of other things here, I want

to get onto this and I want to address this, because it discusses one of the major, major myths

that I want to clear up, that I talked about before, this constant thing that pops up everywhere is

this requirement to squat 2x your body weight before you can go out and you can use plyometrics

is an absolute crock of garbage. It is utter B.S. This is a side note about me - if you don't like the

fact that I swear, than that is a problem because sometimes I am going to swear, sometimes I am

going to be real with you. You know this is not, I am not a person who’s full of crap, and I am not

going to stand up here and be all snotty-nosed about how I do things. I do things in a way that

communicates the message to people in the most effective way, and that’s part of it. In terms of

this I've got a question here that addresses a couple of myths, and I want to get into. This is from

Zubin…

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Zubin: Dear Luke, as a short athlete, I am about 5’6, I am at a terrible disadvantage compared to

every body else…

Luke: I will pull you up there, this is incorrect, you are not at a terrible disadvantage, you might be

in a physical stature form, but because of the height of you and the length of your limbs and so on

and so forth because of your height, you are actually able to increase your vertical a lot quicker

than everybody else, that is just the way the neurological system works. Someone with shorter

limbs has the neurological messages sent to the extremities quicker, because the limbs are

shorter, O.K., that’s why guys like Spud Webb, and you know smaller guys can get high leaping

results much quicker than taller athletes generally...

Zubin: Therefore, I have worked very hard to try and increase my vertical leap, I am trying your

program and others based on plyometrics, and explosiveness but I have failed to see much

results with them…

Luke: O.K. so apparently here, I've got a note here that you have just signed in, and you have just

gotten a hold of it, it's probably been a couple of weeks at the most that you, perhaps have used

my system, I am not sure here…

Zubin: I weigh in at around 115 lbs, my standing vertical is 20 inches, my running vertical one leg

is around 25 inches…

Luke: This running vertical stuff, running jump, whatever it is people like to talk about it simply

because, it is higher than their standing vertical, it makes them feel good about it, scrap the whole

what my running vertical thing is, that's garbage. You don’t need to know about it…

Zubin: I wanted to know if I should shy away from plyometrics and start looking towards overall

strength to increase my vertical…

Luke: That’s an interesting question; it's interesting because it is laced with the fact that you are

basing the question on a premise that's incorrect.

By asking the question “I wanted to know if I should shy away from plyometrics and start looking

towards overall strength to increase my vertical”, you are assuming that you need to be at a

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certain strength to have plyometrics be of assistance to you, in increasing your vertical leap.

That's what you are assuming by making that statement.

You have been told a lie and you have probably been told it by someone who appears to know

what they are talking about, when they have very little idea of what it is that they are talking

about. Plyometrics should only be done to the athlete, to the subjective athlete’s capacity. O.K.?

So the athlete who is performing them, the intensity of the plyometrics, should reflect their current

capacity, and their current level. Increasing strength, to increase your vertical leap, is a

fundamental error that is always a re-corrective problem for any athlete. The standard squat, that

squat that says do 5 sets of 5 reps or 6 sets of 2 reps - trying to grunt out as high a weight as you

can - is a fundamental error in athletic training, a fundamental error. In other words, what I am

saying here is Zubin is, don't think that doing that those heavy, those strength based movements,

not power based, but strength based movements are going to somehow ready you for

plyometrics because you have got to hit that magical “squatting 2x your body weight” number.

That's a lie, that's total rubbish.

In fact, I'll take you back to volume 1.1, if everyone can go there on the Double Your Vertical

Leap software, it's volume 1.1, if you just go there now, I'll take you there and I want you go

through the bottom there, where I talk about which exercises allow athletes to exhibit the most

power output, per unit of time.

Now, what you see with that, is that each of these exercises, here - there is the barbell squat, #1,

there is the depth jumps and there is the maximum height jumps, O.K.? They are relative

measures because they are basically the same movement addressing the same jumping capacity

within the same movement of the athlete. It’s a straight up and down movement. Now, the barbell

squat, this is really basic stuff, the barbell squat, does not allow an athlete to nearly enough

power in nearly enough time because #1 the squatter never releases the tension of the weight, so

the weight never leaves the squatters back, the squatter has his feet on the ground the entire

time, and he is under tension the entire time, and the movement - because there is so much

weight on their back, if they are using those traditional, those maximum effort sets - the

movement is very slow... so you have got slow movement, you have got a high time under

tension, TUT, time under tension, and you've got a movement that requires the back to be

proportionally strong with the legs, which an elite within its natural state won't have legs that are

proportionally as strong as their back. This is not to say that the back being strong, isn’t

important, it is to say that where vertical leap is considered, the legs will always be proportionally

stronger than the back. So squats for strength, and I just mean raw strength, just the ability to lift



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as much as possible, is not really that important. It is important to know for your Starting

Acceleration exercises so you can measure your, you can do the Box Squats, and things like

that, the High Pulls, and all of the movements you should know the one rep maxes for. But to

presuppose that you need to somehow increase your strength so you can somehow increase

your vertical is to take a step backwards. It is going entirely against the grain of what it is you

want to do. Just address Power. Cut out the bad things that aren't working for you. I think you

need to go over the Double Your Vertical Leap System again, that’s probably what you need to

do. Being the age, and the height you are and the weight – that’s what you need to do. You have

listed here…

Zubin: … my max squat is 235 lbs I assume my deadlift max is around 200lbs. I am not sure if

strength ties into vertical leap, but I wanted to know your thoughts in order to further my training

and become a better basketball player and athlete. Thanks Zubin.

Luke: I think that's really nice, I think that that’s what the answer is for your question is that you

don't need to focus on that strength component. As long as you can jump, as long as you can and

I mean as long as you can actually jump, like skipping rope, jump on a basketball court, then you

can do proper jump training, because your body already knows how to land itself. So that’s one of

the key important components that we will discuss later on in the week, and that relates to the 50-

inch report, and then tying that in to the 50-Inch Blueprint that we will create as well.

Moving along here…

O.K, I want to get into something else that relates to UPN charts here. It is important that we

understand this UPN stuff, so that no matter what situation comes up, you can apply this to

yourself or to your athletes. There is something that I want to address about UPN's on a whole,

and that's how to adjust the UPN structure, when you complete each phase. You know that I said

before, the UPN is a measurement that's based on your weight, it's based on your ability at the

time, and it is based on how quickly you can and for maximum height you can perform the jump.

As your performance increases, through the phases - this is for any athlete - as their performance

increases, their UPN will naturally adjust because their performance will be better. So what the

athlete needs to do at that time is that I recommend at the end of each phase, which is a 5 week

block, it could be as low as 3 weeks, depending on how advanced the athlete is, but let's just say

it is a default 5-week block that the athlete chooses their UPN from, I say that you need to adjust

the UPN, right.


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Now, the confusion can start, where you know, you have an athlete who has got a UPN with let’s

say 7 when they commence, then their performance increases, and their UPN might go up to 9,

after the first 5 weeks. So... Athlete A has gone from UPN 7 to UPN 9, in his first phase. O.K.,

we’ve got that down. When athlete A does that, does athlete A then go on from the UPN 9 at

week 5, or does athlete A go on from UPN 9 at week 1?

Now that the way that the UPN is structured is that if it is a new measurement, it is a new

measurement. So if you have just freshly found out that you are a UPN 9, you have to start again

at UPN 9 from week 1. You don't necessarily need to do that. The UPN's are structured so that

they are planned out for 15 weeks, increasing your weight and reps over time. I would only

increase the UPN… I would only re-evaluate the UPN if I was a high-end athlete that was making

sure that I was getting results, very quickly. Because otherwise, you know and because otherwise

you are going to keep running into starting over from week 1, because you keep readjusting your

UPN, and you are not actually going to get the intense UPN training that comes towards the last

5-10 week bracket of the UPN charts.

So when you adjust your UPN's and when the UPN is new, you have to start from week 1 again.

But for high-end athletes, and professional athletes, that's probably a better structure simply

because you are not putting too much stress on the UPN component, and for another reason - for

the high-end athletes, and for athletes that are under a lot of stress consistently - the UPN

training isn’t where the most leverage is, it is the Progressive Acceleration training where the

most leverage is. So don't worry about that too much. If you are a regular athlete though, you can

check your UPN's and so on and so forth adjust your weight, and with each phase, but try to get

to those intense sets toward the end of each chart, because they really force your neurological

capacity to respond heavily and to respond to the rigor, and to the requirement for the ATP

system to rejuvenate itself even quicker. O.K. so that's a probably a point that needs to be

cleared up on UPN's for now.

In terms of timing, what have we got here? I want to make sure that everything is covered for

today, so, let's just go through… let's just go through this to make sure. I just want to make sure

of it, of addressing all the UPN stuff that can compliment what we discussed earlier on today.

I think that for today we are done. I want you to understand, I want you to take with you now that

the UPN is a system that is based on that point of compromise, and not going past it. That

doesn't mean that an athlete can use it all the time and that doesn't mean that it is necessarily the

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greatest advantage point for athletes, especially pro athletes. I don't think that, the greatest

leverage in training is for UPN's with pro athletes - it can be, but there is a point where

Progressive Acceleration training, the ability to accelerate through the entire range of the jumping

motion, as opposed to just at the bottom of it, I said previously was something that we

subconsciously turn off, that the UPN training is important just to regular athletes, So get that in

your head, for the pro's it’s of course equally important because it's a function of time, it's a

measure, but the point of leverage for the high end athlete, for the collegiate athlete, is definitely

with Progressive Acceleration Training.

Tomorrow, I am going to be taking a step further from this. This has largely been a clarification of

the entire Double Your Vertical Leap System, and establishing that frame of reference and that

framework from where we can go from here. What you need to with that is… we need to get that

into our heads. So tonight, I want you to go over your notes again, I want you to have a look at

what it is that I was saying, make sure that you were following me on the submissions that I went

through, I want you to just think about building this foundation on the correct premise, how we

have had to build the framework, based on removing old thoughts, and replacing them with new

thoughts. This is important because you have been so conditioned as athletes, and as coaches,

and trainers, for years and years and years into this “Rocky” mentality, this Rocky Balboa of “train

until you drop”, it's Larry Bird, it's you know even, even now recently, you've got the kind of

bodybuilding syndrome re-entering into training where people are seeing the body with the eyes

instead of with the mind. This isn’t what we need to do; we need to start seeing the body with the

mind, instead of with the eyes. We have to see it as this electrical unit, that where electricity is cut

off, performance is reduced - because electricity can be short circuited at any spot throughout the

body.

Training is holistic; training is something that addresses each component of the movement of the

leap, of the movement of complete and explicit power. Those components are: Starting

Acceleration, that ability to rise and snap from dead nothing to explosion. Progressive

Acceleration, to not only rise, but to as you rise, keep getting faster as you rise. Water is

incredibly important for that. Power Output training, the ability to force the body into a power

response as, as a function of the athlete’s subjective capacity, their subjective abilities and their

ability to enhance their training by a factor of time. Fixation and Stabilization which is simply you

know the alignment of the wheels of the athlete and being able to make them perform through

one neurological pathway, one effort through the least resistance from sway, or shaking, or lack

of stability, and then Recoordination in the final part of which neurologically wires the body and


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allows it to restructure itself in accordance with the prior training implementations with the Starting

Acceleration, Progressive Acceleration, Power Output, it allows the body to rewire those, and

incorporate those improvements from the training session, and then apply them to the real world,

the real life, the real game, training situations and game situations.

I think we are going to wind up for tonight for now. Tonight has been largely not just a review but

a clarification of things, it is something that has taken the Double Your Vertical Leap System as it

stands, and it has just gone that level underneath. What I need you to do is go over your night’s

notes, go over it again have a look, have a think about Mandate 2 and then think also about

where I might be going with Mandate 3. It is important for you to think of Mandate 3 not as an

extension of tonight, but as another part of the same stuff that we’ve gone through tonight. It's not

different, it's not another level above, it's another view that will allow this thing to become more

clear for you. Because I can tell you, I know what it is that I am teaching you. I know what it is that

is going to make this machine tick for us this week, and it’s not thinking that one thing needs be

learned, therefore I can learn the next thing – no. It's going to be this thing of here is this view of

it, here is that view of it, here is this view of it, here is this view of it… and it is all the same thing, it

is all leading to this ability to adjust the training through each of the modalities and through the

athlete’s life, and adjust the training through the athlete's season, through the athlete's

improvements over time, so that this can not only be just this one off program that you use, but it

can be a lifestyle for the athlete, for years to come.

That’s important for you trainers and coaches out there, it is equally important for your athletes

out there as well. So have a think about what's gone on tonight, and then I want you to think

about it in light of it, I want you to have a look later on tonight, at mandate 3 or tomorrow morning

just look at Mandate 3, and think where I might be going with that tomorrow night.

There is going to be a lot more of the submissions that I will go into tomorrow night, so I'll be

ready for those. Also what I need you to do tonight is I need you to go back to the MasterClass

Submission Portal, everyone that’s listening right now, I want you to go to Submission portal.

… And I want you to give us some feedback of what you thought of tonight. I want to hear your

comments, I want to hear your how this is going for you, I want to hear how fantastic it was

tonight - I know we got started a little late but let's say 5 minutes in, this is something I want to tell

all of you while you are here: 6:00 p.m., that’s when we want to start. We want to get into this, we

have got a lot to cover this week - we have laid the ground work now tonight.


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You are going to - I know I even feel like it now - but tonight you are going to walk away from this,

feeling like this has toasted my brain. That's OK, it is going to hit you like a barrage, and the way

that the Gestalt learning method works, is that it hits you like a barrage from all the angles.

What's going to happen is as this repetitively takes place within you, this is why I insisted on

getting you the CD's as well, getting you the manual, the transcript manual so you can go over it,

it’s going to seep into your mind, so that you just don’t take 10 percent out of it - you actually

could go and teach it yourself.

This is what the MasterClass is for, this is what I have always told the MasterClass, so we can

have independent athletes, independent coaches, and independent trainers out there. Alright

guys go to the MasterClass Submission Portal, tell me what you think, I want to hear from every

single one of you, that's on the seminar series tonight.

I’m going to be a be leaving you very soon, until that time I thank you for tonight, I pray God

blesses you, and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow night. Again go and visit that MasterClass

Submission Portal, tell us what you think.

We will be getting prepared for tomorrow night, basically straight away now, and we will be taking

your comments into consideration for tomorrow night as we build the Gestalt and develop this

thing and introduce some new topics that have never been gone into before. Alright, take care, I

will speak to you soon…

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About Luke Lowrey

“It Is Without Question That Luke Lowrey Is The World’s

Leading Expert In Performance Enhancement…”

- Chinese Olympic Organization

Luke Lowrey is the founder of TheVerticalProject.com and the creator of the “Double Your

Vertical Leap” performance-enhancement software and training system – the only system in the

entire world to incorporate his self-devised UPN™ mathematical algorithm technology.

A former professional-level basketball player himself

(Victorian Titans, 2000-2001), Luke developed the UPN system

to dramatically increase his own vertical leap to an outstanding

42 inches, before suffering a career-ending injury. As fate

would have it, Luke aroused such an interest in his training

system that he very quickly had numerous international

coaches, trainers and elite athletes seeking his expertise from all

around the world – many of whom remain on his client list

today and demand strict non-disclosure contracts to prevent the

release of their association because his methods are so

effective.

In the space of just five years, Luke has proven himself to be at

the very front of athletic performance-enhancement, with many

freely comparing him to the Godfather of Eastern bloc athletic

and plyometric training Dr. Yuri Verkhoshansky and to

outstanding Polish Olympic coach Tadeusz Starzynski. A former professional basketball player

in his home country of Australia, after a series of career-ending injuries, Luke launched his own

client advising service in 2003.



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Most notably, Lowrey's company - The Vertical Project - his revolutionary UPN™ training

system, The Window Plan™ recovery guideline and Double Your Vertical Leap™ advanced

software system, have served over 7,000 elite athletes worldwide with a further 50,000

subscribing to his website, while he has publicly worked alongside such luminaries as EAS co-

founder, author Shawn Phillips, and the world's #1 sports hypnotherapist, Pete Siegel.

Lowrey's discovery of the UPN algorithm has been hailed "the greatest advance in vertical

jumping technology" and "the defining point between performance enhancement of yesterday and

performance enhancement of tomorrow" and has meant that for the very first time any athlete of

any capacity can literally plot-and-predict their performance increases in the most revered athletic

feats: the vertical jump, and the sprint.

Currently residing in Los Angeles, Luke also advises a number of professional and elite sporting

teams and associations through his PrivatePro service - all of whom demand strong Non-

Disclosure Agreements to prevent him from ever releasing their names and details, ranging from

the NFL, NBA, UEFA, ATP tour, Major League, NCAA, English Premier League and Olympic

levels.

Lowrey is currently involved and actively working on a number of projects; from his client

advising, to software production and various online projects, to the development of new athletic

performance systems. With his renown for being on the cutting edge of performance nutrition and

supplementation, Lowrey was recently invited to be an Advisory Board member of Elite

Performance Laboratories, LLC; overseeing their Adenotrex product development and athlete

testing.


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