Shannon Brown’s dunks are just as impressive as her vertical. The 24-year-old Los Angeles Lakers point guard has one of the tallest verticals in the NBA (44.5 inches)! And he’s only 6 foot 2 inches (not 6’4”).

Of course, Brown was disappointing in this year’s (February 2010) NBA Slam Dunk Contest. He didn’t even advance past the first round. But most experts agree that it wasn’t his last appearance in this pageant. In fact, Brown has been messing around for a long time:

“I was going into my freshman year at Tim Hardaway’s basketball camp. I actually got a steal, I was just on the break and I went up there and dunked it. It wasn’t a clean flush, but it was good enough for where I knew it could be. to do it. I had been trying it in gym class in my eighth grade before summer camp, and it wasn’t working for me. Then I finally got my chance” (Shannon Brown).

Although Brown did some weight lifting in high school and college, he’s basically cut weight training out of his fitness routine since he entered the NBA. In fact, Brown mostly sticks to push-ups and hardly trains his legs at all! So for some parts he must be in his genes: fast twitch fibers are working at their best. But of course it’s just one side of the corner. The other side is the practice that he starts already as a child. However, there is one thing that Brown has been consistently working on and still is: core strength. It’s his little secret…

When it comes to jumping, core strength is extremely important. Without core strength you cannot create the body tension that is essential in the jumping process. The core muscles allow the transfer of powerful arm and leg movements. Exercises that improve core strength are:

– Lizards

– Abdominal reinforcements

– V squats

– creaks

– Rear bridges

– Squats

– oblique twists

– lunges

– Superman exercises

But since you probably aren’t as athletically gifted as Shannon Brown, you also need to work on your calf muscles, hamstrings, quadriceps, and glutes.