How I Went From A 45 To A 50 Inch Vertical: Isaiah Rivera 

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Now, that’s motivation and dedication. You went from a 24” to a 50.5” vertical. You are jumping more than double your vertical when you started. You taught me something.

I'd love to see Isaiah Rivera go and contact Guinness records and go and officially get the record.

I still remember ur 24-36 vert video, u've came a long way, it's almost as if I'm watching a movie of ur journey

Finally the how i went from a 45 to 50 inch vert i was waiting nice grind bro.

The progress is crazy!!

“What you practice, grows stronger.” Mindfulness, pathos, and work ethic beats talent anytime! Congrats!!! 👏👏👏

That Whistle Sport sessions murdered me also lol

Super proud of you bro been watching and supporting for years your discipline is insane and noticed

Very inspiring. Struggle is 100% real brother but ultimately it's how you overcame them. Thanks for sharing.

seeing the progress played out like this is awesome! I'd be interested in a 0-50" video where you go over you early sports and do a whole break down!!!

Hi Isaiah, Thx for the amazing video. I am really thankful for sharing everything so openly with us! It is very helpful for all the people out here to understand, that injuries are part of the road and there is always a way to overcome them. Thx again!

I think i follow you since 2019 and to see all this training video and dunk session again makes me nostalgic You can be proud of yourself you are amaizing

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. You posted that quote and it stuck with me. You know like I know injuries aren’t a stopping point but a learning point. Good job on pushing thru and keep grinding

So happy to see your journey man, I’ve been following along for a long time now, keep it up your journey is super inspiring!

Absolutely amazing! Thank you for this video. Great job!

You a beast ! Mamba mentality I love it ! Thank you for this video this is very inspirational 🔥🔥

Awesome journey bro. Thanks for going through it all.

so happy for you my man! this really shows people how hard you have to work to achieve a huge goal.

Was waiting for this 😍😍

bro this is so inspirational man hopefully I can do the same one day. I also really appreciate the books you recommend I read them and they have helped me in other areas of life you're very inspirational thank you

100% agreed, I never had major injuries during my teens and twenties, I was really athletic but didn't have any improvements until I sprained both my ankles in three years. Then I started to study on my body and advanced exercises. Now I'm turning 34 before December, I'm much stronger than before and hopefully when my ankle fully recovered, I can still enjoy dunking

Thank you for all the content and your workout videos I was finally able to get a dunk on 10ft off a lob after starting on dunking on only 8ft

so insane to finally see this happen! been waiting YEARS for this. Gonna turn 18 soon, will be time to start my THP journey💪

Absolutely crazy video super inspiring

Great story, very inspiring!

also throughout the course of me watching your jumping, your mechanics have improved greatly

thank you for these videos, i’m 5’ 6” and can touch backboard, and with this training i think i can do it!

This motivates me so much!

Waiting for this🔥🔥

i have been doing all sorts of vert training i have seen online going to the weight room doing plyos and i went from a 21 inch vert to a 34 ich. i loved ur advice and fo ru people this stuff really works

Insane progress!!!!🤯

Love your story bro!

coach evans the goat

Great job, I believe in you, you can go higher

Look at Isaiah man, so inspirational!

Superb video ol’ chap

Amazing stuff

John sounds like an amazing coach

You are just amazing Bravo from France

Crazy hard work

Wow! Isaiah I saw your videos when I was a teen I find It's very impressive you are still working in your jump haha. I thought you was training for being a NBA player or something like that when i saw your videos I didn't undertood English so much. I'm very glad you are improving.

Brooo🤯 the dedication is insane!! I need some THP in my life!

Inspiring 💯

I really respect his effort and geeat result

Great story man!

The man that learned to fly! Great story and very inspirational.

This is a great video that captures the inevitable injuries of training for peak performance and being human - all while learning your body. I have always noticed you may be over arching your lower back in the squat, especially at the bottom. That may be related to the back injury. Perhaps experiment more with finding a more neutral spine for load bearing? That arch in the low back puts the hips in a certain position (tilt) and stretches the hams more. Just a thought. Wishing you the best.

So inspirational 😥

What a journey 💯

Good job! Would be great to hear a little bit more how you got rid of your knee pain. Iam dealing with tendonitis for more than 6 months and slow strength does not really help a lot.

I've been following you since I came across your vid of the "360 BTB and BTL" in a dunk compilation. I had to know who that was! Haha! Congrats on the progress, hard work, growth and achievement👍

Great story brother

Hey man, been following you for a few years, this is awesome! Since you were doing so much strength training, I'm wondering what you were doing nutrition wise?

My god I used to be able to dunk then I stopped for 2 months because of religous stuff and eid and yesterday I went to the court and I got rim blocked like 10 straight times glad I saw this to help me get motivated again.

Crazy journey

inspirational

i bought your coaching one day i’ll jump like you

The day we’ve all been waiting for

10:49 "Dunk or death". Damn that's a cool tattoo

Great journey!! And a great last name you have. 😁😁

Big W

luv u

Bro, y yo que solo pido llegar al aro🥺... Un completo crack!!!

Imma get like you one day 🙏

When you were jumping lower on the ATG training, did you change any other aspect of your training? Like were you still jumping, dunking, playing b-ball at the same intensity/frequency? The only reason ATG probably didn’t make immediately jump higher, is because two foot jumping relies a lot more on raw strength like full squat, and the start of ATG is all lighter and unilateral. The absolute strength of your body was the limiting factor of your jumping height at that time, and you started to lose some of that absolute strength when you started ATG intro lifting.

Ur inspirational for me

Let’s goooo🔥🔥

Isaiah you should add your height on channel description 👍👍

bro I wanna see some NBA players react to u

History in the making

This man is the goku of jumping, somehow he keeps getting better

hey bro just wanted to ask that for your strength training did you just do exercises that were mainly targeted for legs/hips or did you train upper body too, like arms and chest?

Needed to see this cause my shoulder been injured for over a year left ankle since February, back juss got injured too prolly had bout 5 6 injuries within the last year

I live in the Clearwater area and I would definitely like for you guys to work with my son

Here is what I learned from this video: "No matter what life threw at me - the hardship, the adversity, the challenges, the downfalls - I found opportunities, ways and a plan around it. I never gave up." Great work Isaiah! You are an inspiration to many people! I am 35 years old and I am at it for 15 months now. I am beyond the rim now, and when I started I couldn't touch the board (overweight back injury, etc)! Nowhere as close as you, but hopefully I will dunk one day. Thanks for sharing your journey with us! Chase the 52' inch next!

Fucking insane! I feel like that’s so complex and hard to find the best training method. Did you had plyo days during the strength/power cycle? Keep up the work

Yessir!!

Sounds like the Kneesovertoes stuff could've helped, really impressive compound lifts but there are more tools in rehab than load management

Hey zay are you going to try to test for a 52 inch vertical?

You are a fucking beast

How much plyometrics do you do compared to lifting? Love your vids but theyre mainly about lifting and little plyos

Your float time is insane.

Isaiah is gonna have a 50-55 inch vertical soon

Do you want to add muscle in a surplus or will that slow you down less force production?

This really makes me thinking about singing in

What do you think of ISOKINETIC AND SYMMETRY THAT SUPPORT PRIMER MOVER MUSCLES? GOOD WORK , EVER THOUGHT OF WRITTING A BOOK.

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hey Isaiah, do you think that your 50.5'' vert also contributed a lot from high volume training in Oct-Nov 2021? because you saide you built a really high capacity from that training. high volume sprint ilfts at high altitude environment

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Hey Isiah I just started THP but then went to the hospital due to my chest and they don’t want me to lift until I’m cleared. I was wondering if u could postpone my workouts and take my workouts away until I’m cleared?

He made the video!!

Does flexibility help with jumping or make your muscles looose

No limits

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Bro can you do eating in a day? Thank you bro!!

Hey Isaiah! I've been training for almost 2 years now. A few months ago I was able to dunk a tennis ball on a 10ft rim at 5'10. But recently I feel like I've been plateauing and somedays I even jump lower. I have tried resting, different training styles and some mobility work, but I haven't seen many results. My jump technique off 1 and 2 foot isn't that good, but I have been struggling to improve it. Any advice?

If you have any minor twitch in any area during a heavy lift, it’s time to investigate what weak points you have lead to that. It’s not time to do another lift to get around it.

I saw ur ankle injured right next to u bro :( in warmup summer jam

27 years old, can you still add vertical jumps up to 40" brother??