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Originally Posted by L0uie69
You don't need to do extremely high reps when squatting. 1-5reps would be suitable to increase strength, remember if you want to dunk you're looking for strength and not hypertrophy. Jumping is an explosive moment and with that said you need to incorporate some kind of dynamic movement into your workout. I prefer doing movements such as box jumps (seated & standing), reactive jumps, broad jumps, and Bulgarian split squat jumps.
Olympic lifts such as cleans, clean and press, clean and jerk are very technical and risky to someone who is fairly new to weight lifting, and or unfamiliar how to properly dead-lift.
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squatting weights should just be one part of your workout, find some gyms that have those boxes that you can stack up and jump on. Also, skip ropes are effective too because you're working out your calf muscles (and the cardio doesn't hurt too lol).
because you're working out on your jump, the jump must be in your workout.