Patrick - Knee Ability Zero

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I can still remember being 4 years old and telling my best friend I was going to save upfor a Michael Jordan rookie card. I worked odd jobs, saved every penny, and at age 6 Idid it: I bought a Michael Jordan rookie card for one thousand dollars. I had no interest

(From the 1990 video "NBA Superstars")
An F-16 Fighting Falcon appears on the screen.
Michael Jordan enters the tunnel into the arena.

The F-16 approaches the runway, then Jordan steps onto the court.The F-16 begins accelerating for takeoff, and Jordan begins dribbling down the court.

Many hours a day I practiced these dunks on my Little Tike hoop in the garage. By age9 I was waking up at 5am to do vertical jump programs before school. Thousands ofnights I dreamed of dunking like Michael Jordan. Not once did I dream of lying halfnaked on an operating table as doctors used markers to draw where they were going tocut me open.

By 14 it was not so secret: my teammates and coaches nicknamed me "Old Man"because my knees were so stiff. I finished high school with scars on my knee, not evenclose to dunking a basketball, and with no college coaches interested in giving me ascholarship.

I recall the moment it hit home that my dream of being a basketball player had notsucceeded. I had a real decision to make: What would I do with my life now? Would Ichoose a logical career and forget basketball, or would I devote my existence tofiguring out how to bulletproof my knees?

Everything I had been taught up to this point by dozens of trainers and physicaltherapists was very clear: NO KNEES OVER TOES - but when I read this statement, Iimmediately knew it was true.

I became a student of Charles myself, and learned enough to get my knees to the pointwhere I could play basketball with manageable pain. At age 21, I beat the odds andsigned a college basketball scholarship with an up-and-coming coach named JeremyShulman. He was the only coach who gave me a shot, and I repaid him by becoming

the starting point guard for his team and helping him win two straight conferencechampionships. At age 23, I received a full-ride scholarship offer from Boston University.From unrecruited in high school, to Division 1 scholarship, local kids back home werereaching out to have me train them whenever I was in town: no one had ever heard ofsuch a story, and people wanted to know how I had pulled it off.

Little did I know, the NCAA rule only allowed 5 years of eligibility to play sports aftergraduating high school, and my time was up. I assembled all my medical records, andBoston University appealed the ruling, but once again I was denied. It was suggested

that I get a lawyer and fight the decision in time for the start of the season, but Iknew it was meant to be: my purpose was to follow the clues I learned from CharlesPoliquin, and see what I could achieve with knees over toes.

Fast forward to today, and at 29 years old I have the abilities I always dreamed of: Ican DUNK, and not just a little bit: I've now trained many NBA players, and my style ofon-court training involves playing against them one-on-one, followed by working ondunking ability.

It is still surreal for me, as a 6'1 guy who grew up unable to grab the rim, to teach6'6"+ NBA players how to improve their dunks, and physically demonstrating the precisenext dunk which would improve their game but which they cannot do yet, thanks to the

Knee Ability "Zero" is a program which requires zero weights, zero equipment, and zerospecial abilities to start. You can read, study the pictures, and follow right along! I willteach you how to perform each exercise with written explanation and visualdemonstration. You will do the exercise, then come back to your book and read the"Why" behind the exercise. I will even give your exact sets, reps, and schedule, everystep of the way through this book...

Your tibialis muscle is on the front of your lower leg. It acts both to flex your toes up,and to decelerate your foot when you walk, stop running, jump, etc., which you will seeexamples of when you get to the "Why" section for this exercise:

HOW
Find a wall and make sure you have safe footing (no socks or slippery floor).

Perform 25 consecutive reps, pausing 2 seconds at the top of each rep, and 2 secondsat the bottom of each rep, monitoring difficulty as you go. You may need to standcloser to the wall as your muscles burn out, or farther from the wall if you are feeling