I also use a mcdavid rap around for my back when I use it and knee braces. You think Ill be good? I also ice my knees after im done with the workouts.

1. Generally for high intensity exercises you try to rest as long as you need to lift your best, for most this is in between 2-5 minutes. You don’t want to wait too long as your muscles won’t stay warm.

2. No.

3. You should strive to keep your back as straight as possible. Your lower back especially is very important for jumping. Aside from injury to your back which is very possible if you are going high weight and putting strain on it when it’s not straight, you’re cheating yourself out of strength you could be getting in your lower back. Go as high as you can while keeping your back straight and eventually it’ll catch up to your legs and provide even better gains for jumping.

4. Increased vertical isn’t something that happens overnight. You need to train hard, eat right, sleep right among many other things. Getting stronger doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be jumping higher. Kind of like #3, jumping something that requires your entire body. Just because your legs might be huge and massive, if you can’t use them well because your back, or abs, or ankles are too weak to use their full power, you won’t be jumping as high as you can. I just looked on their website and if you can lift the 7 bands they say you should be able to dunk.

Since it looks like you are far away from that there are two more things that you need to do. 1) Get to the point where you can lift those 7 bands with good form, which means straight back, pulling straight up etc. 2) Practice jumping. Just because you have the leg strength doesn’t necessarily mean you have the speed or experience to use that strength.

5) It probably could hurt your arm, but if you’re lifting so much weight to the point where its bending your back and hurting your arms, that’s too much. You can have just as effective if not more effective workouts by lowering the bands and lifting them with more effort and good form.

6) If you’ve never lifted before yea, you could probably do it 3-4 times a week with a day in between. If you’ve been weight lifting or using the squat flex for a longer amount of time, 4-12 months, you should probably cut it back to about once every 3-4 days as your body needs more time to recover.

7) No, you’re building your jumping muscles, it’s not taking anything away from you. If anything it’ll make all those things get better

From an unbiased stand point, as I’m not really affiliated with this site in anyway, I think the squat flex is a waste of money. If you have access to any kind of gym with weights and time (I do), you can basically get more or less the same results without forking over cash. It will take time, it will take some extra research to figure out what works for you and doesn’t, but it’s a great journey.

If you have no time and no gym, the squatflex is a great little contraption that you can do in your room or take anywhere. It’s not some magic trick, it’s a workout machine to make your jumping / squatting muscles stronger.

2. I been resting 2min in between sets is that too much?

3. Does it matters if my back is straight when doing this because it’s really hard to keep my back straight due to all the resistance.

4. I’m currently using 7 band each side but I’m about 1’6″ away from touching the rim is my vertical too low? Is it working for me?

5. When doing squatflex my legs can handle it but it’s a lot of strain on my arms and hands, can it jack up my arm?

6. Can I do the workout more than 2x a week? If so how many days rest in between?

7. And can squatflex kill my horizontal jump, speed, or explosion?

After a lot of careful consideration, I decided to recommend the Squat Flex because it offers things I’ve come to realize people need:

1. It’s easy to use. Not lots of time spent learning or re-learning movement patterns.

2. It’s straightforward. If you knew some of the questions I receive from well-inentioned athletes, your head might just explode at the over-analytical, detailed questions and thoughts they come up with.

“Do more bands” appeals, ya know?

3. Lots of different things can teach your muscles to create the tension necessary to jump higher. Squats, deadlifts, plyometrics, BANDS and so on.

The general principles remain the same, the means to the end are variable.
As long as you’re teaching your body to create more tension voluntarily and rapidly, you’re on the right path. And like a squat, the Squat Flex does that.

4. Their guarantee is insane. It’s also GREAT for accountability.

So what if 12 bands is gonna be hard as hell for a lot of athletes?

What if they work so hard JUST to prove JumpUSA wrong and instead get to 10 bands? Don’t you think they’ll have significantly improved their vertical at that point.

And if so, don’t you think their investment in the Squat Flex would have been a prudent one?

I hope that helps,

Alex

And a guarantee of “12 bands if you can’t dunk your money back”. If 12 bands is the equivalent of squating 2.5x’s your body weight, 95% of users will never reach that. Those are numbers hit by only elite athletes. So what is the guarantee?

Please explain to us followers where the value in this product you are promoting is?

Thanks….