Nathanael Morton: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another video.
My name is Nathanael Morton and I am a vertical jump coach.
In my last video I reviewed Vert Shock, the number one vertical scam program, I mean vertical
jump program in the world that will help you gain nine to fifteen inches on your vertical
jump before the next time that you blink your eyes.
Today I will be reviewing The Flight System by Overtime Athletes.
By the way, if you have a vertical jump program that you think I should review, leave it down
below in the comment section because I don't know what all of them are.
And if I see it, then I will surely do a video on it and tell you whether or not you should
invest your money in it.
Nathanael Morton: But today is The Flight System by Overtime
Athletes.
I'm actually extremely excited.
I have never seen it before, but I do know who Overtime Athletes is and Chris Boner,
I think his name is, and I actually really like his video.
So Overtime Athletes, if you haven't been following their YouTube channel, you should
because they are very educational.
Here we go.
Overtimeathletes.com.
The Flight System, it's the first one.
What else does he have?
He has a speed system, a strength formula, athletes built, athletic calisthenics.
I'm sure you have to pay for all these individually, but it looks like he has a lot of content
on his website.
Learn more about The Flight System.
Nathanael Morton: What's up, I'm Chris Bernard.
Wow, did I butcher his last name.
Chris Boner.
Head strength coach at the infamous, pretty sure they're not infamous.
Infamous is a bad thing, means people don't like you.
I'm pretty sure people like you, Chris Bernard, with Overtime Athletes.
Over the past six years, I made it a personal mission, blah, blah, blah.
Let's get into the program.
I'm not trying to talk a lot like I did with Vert Shock.
The key to increasing rate of force development is to generate as much force as possible at
the beginning of a muscular movement before the stretch shortening cycle comes in and
robs the muscle of that potential energy.
Nathanael Morton: So he already looks like he knows more about
vertical jump training than Vert Shock.
I'm just kidding, but hopefully he has some strengthening in here because Vert Shock did
a whole bunch of plyometrics.
They had all kinds of explosiveness.
They have all kinds of rate of force development.
They had all kinds of reactive speed, reactive strength, but they had nothing to increase
your maximum strength.
And when I say nothing, I mean zero.
Nathanael Morton: Introducing The Flight System.
$134.
So more than double the price of Vert Shock.
So hopefully it's more than double the gains, which could mean 18 to 30 inches in the next
10 minutes.
Start increasing your vertical today.
I always love how they put these pictures of CDs, like you're going to ship all these
CDs to my house.
You are not shipping me all of these DVDs for me to plug into my mommy's DVD player.
This is going to be an online PDF.
It just shows a picture of a bunch of CDs to make it look better.
Nathanael Morton: All right guys.
So I had just bought the program, but wait, special one-time only offer, remember this
is the upsell.
Anytime that you buy something online, they try to give you an upsell to just pay a little
bit more to get the extra exclusive version that will help you dock by dinnertime.
So I actually have a lot of hope for this vertical jump training program.
With Vert Shock, I kind of knew as soon as I saw nine to fifteen inches in eight weeks,
I knew it was not a good program.
Okay.
Nathanael Morton: Because no program I'm telling you right now,
no program on this entire earth is going to help you gain nine to fifteen inches on your
vertical in eight weeks.
Not Michael Jordan's program.
Not LeBron James.
Not Tim Grover, that was Michael Jordan's trainer.
Not Jordan Kilgannon.
Not me.
Not anybody.
Not the tooth fairy.
Not Tinkerbell, if she sprays you with some little, little fairy dust.
You will not gain nine to fifteen inches in eight weeks.
Nathanael Morton: So let's see what his upsell is.
The upsell is Flight Integrated Vertical.
Here's what you'll learn, blah, blah, blah.
Add to my offer.
No, I'm not going to add this to my offer because I just paid $134.
And that's all I want, is The Flight System.
Congrats.
Your program was sent to your email, but what about the CDs and the DVDs you're going to
mail on my house.
Okay.
They don't do that.
They just make it look pretty.
So if you ever see a bunch of CDs and DVDs, who uses CDs anymore?
Who even uses DVDs anymore?
Everything is online.
So anytime they do that, it's just pretty packaging so that it looks better.
So that you'll be more enticed to buy it.
Nathanael Morton: Before you go, many of our, whoa.
This is another upsell, before you go, those are trigger words.
Many of our athletes have achieved more success.
Let me scroll all the way down here, I can guarantee that he has some other upsell.
Yep.
Add to my order.
Performance Nutrition, add to my order, which I'm not hating.
I'm not doubting that Performance Nutrition is good.
I am sure it's good.
It's a very good marketing strategy to have an upsell.
I just want you to be aware of what it is, but some of the time it's actually a good
deal.
So sometimes the upsell is a good deal.
Not hating on it.
Oh my goodness.
Another upsell.
Every athlete needs to train in season.
Let's see how many of these we get.
This is a third upsell, today only.
No, thanks.
Okay.
So that was actually it, there's only three upsells, which as I said, I'm not hating.
Sometimes it can be a very good deal.
Nathanael Morton: Welcome to The Flight System.
The Flight System theory, plyometrics, triphasic training, mechanics and form, The Flight System
program, exercise database.
Let's go to The Flight System program.
See, here's the thing.
If you don't read all of this, you don't actually get everything out of it.
You need to read and understand how the program actually works, which to be completely honest,
I'm not willing to do.
I just want to go through the exercises and make sure the exercises, and the phases, and
the recovery time are good enough.
So right away he tells you, weeks one to four will be the eccentric phase, weeks five to
eight will be the isometric phase, and then weeks nine to twelve will be the concentric
phase.
So this is a 12 week program and what this is going to do, what doing the eccentric phase
first, and the isometric phase first is going to build you a strong foundation and make
sure that you do not get knee pain.
Nathanael Morton: That's the last thing that he needs is people
to come in here and do a bunch of concentric training.
And by the way, concentric is just explosive on your squat.
It's the way up, if you're doing a squat, the way down is the eccentric.
And if you're just holding it, like a wall sit or a lunch hold, that is isometric.
So by doing eccentrics and then doing isometrics and then focusing on concentrics, you build
a strong, solid foundation, you increase your strength a lot, get that foundation, and then
you go into concentric in your explosive movements, which is what I'm getting from here, because
explosive movements are much harder on your knees than eccentrics and isometric.
So that is good so far.
But four weeks of concentrics, that's it?
Seems like just a little bit of concentrics and explosiveness work, but let's dive into
it.
Nathanael Morton: First thing is a dynamic warmup.
Did you know, they did a study, they did a study and they found that people who perform
a dynamic warmup before their exercise get better results from their exercise and people
who do not perform a dynamic warmup.
So that can be playing pickup basketball, that can be doing my dynamic warmup, which
I'll put in a card right here.
It's takes six minutes.
It could be warming up through the movement that you're about to do.
So if you're about to do squats and you'd normally squat, 315 pounds, you put 135 on
the bar and you do a couple of sets and a couple of reps of 135 to get your body warmed
up through that movement.
I personally like dynamic warmups, much more than warming up through the movement.
I like both.
I do both.
First I do dynamic warmup.
Then I warm up through the movement.
Then I get into my heavy sets.
But he has a dynamic warmup.
Extremely good.
Nathanael Morton: Another thing that I noticed right away is
that you can click on the videos right here.
With Vert Shock, you had to go back to their exercise library and watch the videos there.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
We want to click the video right here.
Oh, I don't know what pogo jumps are.
Let me click the video for pogo jumps.
And it comes to a video on what pogo jumps actually are.
That is the way that it's supposed to be, Vert Shock, bunk your eyes and dunk a basketball.
Another thing that I noticed right away is that there are strength exercises.
Oh my goodness.
What a concept?
You get stronger and you get faster and more explosive and you increase your vertical jump.
If you're selling a program, Vert Shock, I'm sorry I keep talking about Vert Shock.
But if you're selling a program and selling the dream of increasing your vertical nine
to fifteen inches, and there's only two things that you need to do to, get stronger and get
faster, how are you missing one of them?
What?
Nathanael Morton: So first is the dynamic warmup.
Then there's some mobility, and there's power, and there's strength, then there's core.
So that's another good thing.
You need to have core within your vertical jump training program.
I don't understand how this is eccentric though, because power exercises are plyometric exercises.
His strength, we get the back squat, Bulgarian split squat, hamstrings.
Wow.
He has calves in there.
So already this first week, this is a better program than Vert Shock, right away this is
a better program than Vert Shock.
I'm not sure what he means by eccentric.
Maybe in his concentric phase, you're doing like seated box jumps where all you are doing
is exploding, but eccentric is lengthening of the muscle under load.
So, I mean, in squats, in Bulgarian split squats, in these exercises that he has, there
is an eccentric portion.
So maybe you're just supposed to focus a little bit more on the eccentric portion or maybe
in the concentric portion, there's a little bit more focused on the concentric or there's
no eccentric at all.
Nathanael Morton: So I'm not sure what that means, but I'm sure
he knows what he's doing.
And I'm sure if I read into it a little bit more and I actually studied everything that
I was supposed to study before I actually start this program, I would understand it
because I am sure he explains it in all of the other information that he gave you.
Actually might want to try this program.
This is pretty, this is tough.
This is tight.
Week one, day two, you got some mobility AO.
This program is fire.
I'm going to just be completely honest, this program is 100% fire.
We've got some mobility.
He even has upper body mobility.
You got some tight lats.
We understand that if you have tight lats, your arm can't stretch all the way up, you're
like T-Rex, you're not going to be able to fully extend and get your full potential of
dunking a basketball.
Nathanael Morton: So this is, so far, he literally has everything.
I got no complaints.
We've got the [inaudible 00:10:20], which are power skips, ban pushups.
So we got some upper body in there.
One arm dumbbell snatch.
It's a power move.
Strength, okay.
So he gives you upper body as well.
Overhead press, inverted row pushups.
It looks like this follows an upper lower split.
So day one was lower body.
Day two is upper body.
So listen, this is worth $134.
I'm in and I'm only on day two.
This is worth it, right?
I'm sure that if I actually looked into this, which I'm going to, I could learn a lot, to
be honest.
For our recovery, we got foam rolling.
Nathanael Morton: Day three, mobility, power, strength, core.
We've got some more mobility, 90, 90 stretch, power squats drops, which is force absorption,
I'm guessing, squat jumps, lunge jumps, look a lot of exercises that he has are exercises
that I have in my program.
We've got another leg day.
We've got Romanian dead lifts, barbell step-ups, we've got some calves in there.
I'm telling you guys, dude is a beast.
Day four.
I'm not even looking into the rest of this.
I'm going to the next phase because his eccentric phase is fire.
His eccentric phase is completely 100% will get you some gains.
Okay?
So let's move to the next phase.
Nathanael Morton: At the end of this, I'll do a comparison of
all the vertical jump programs that I review and I'll tell you which one is the absolute
best.
And this so far, I mean, it's only going up against Vert Shock, but this has the number
one spot.
By the way, if you comment, jump, down below in the comments section, I will send you a
free body weight, vertical jump training program.
Nathanael Morton: Okay?
So we are in the isometric phase, which is week five.
And I honestly do not see the difference between weeks one to four and week five.
This is supposed to be the isometric phase.
I need to read into this because I have zero clues to what he means by isometric phase,
because these are not isometrics.
These are not isometric exercises whatsoever.
And the last phase wasn't eccentrics okay.
It was full out, you're doing everything.
Okay?
So, but nonetheless, these are still really good exercises.
Very similar.
You have a mobilization activation phase after your dynamic warmup, and you got some power,
which is plyometrics.
Then you got strength and you got a core.
The next day is upper body, you got to push press.
So he is literally giving you full body power.
He's giving you lower body strength, lower body speed, remember strength and speed, equal
power.
And he's giving you upper body power.
Nathanael Morton: I have no complaints about this vertical jump
program.
I'm about to do it myself.
And that's another thing.
If I were to go through Vert Shock, I would not see any gains.
I have already been training very hard.
I've been doing strength work very hard.
I've been doing plyometrics very hard.
I would not see gains, no gains, zero inches gain on my vertical if I did Vert Shock.
With this program I would see gains, I would see increases in my vertical.
So if you do this program, this would get closer to giving you nine to fifteen inches
on your vertical then Vert Shock would.
Nathanael Morton: Day three, groiners, which is a groin stretch,
plyometrics, we've got low squat jumps, strength, trap bar deadlift, reverse lunge, [inaudible
00:13:31], calves.
Listen, one thing that a lot of vertical jump programs miss is calf work.
You have to build yourself from the ankle to the knee, to the hip.
So many programs have so much hip extension and hip strengthening, and neglect the knees
and neglect to ankles.
This has everything guys, I'm telling you, you will not get knee pain with this program
either.
Nathanael Morton: That's another thing.
A lot of programs will give you patellar tendonitis because they're not addressing everything
the way that it needs to be addressed.
Day four, bench press, neutral grip, [inaudible 00:00:14:06], I'm not going through all this.
This is good.
This program is fire.
I'm going to the next phase, which is the concentric phase, which I don't understand
what the difference is between eccentric and isometric and concentric, probably because
I didn't read.
So let's move on.
Okay.
Nathanael Morton: So we are in the concentric phase, which is
high forced high-velocity.
I do see how this is different.
And as I was coming to this, I saw that he has a triphasic model where he explains the
difference between eccentric and isometric and the concentric phase.
But I'm honestly not going to read that.
I don't have enough time on this video.
I am going to read it afterwards to gain some information and gain some knowledge and then
take action on that knowledge.
But right now, let me just go through this.
So very similar, mobilization, activation, power, which are plyometric strength, core,
and then we got upper body.
Nathanael Morton: So listen, guys, he gives you, these are my
conclusion.
He gives you complete full body power.
Not only are you getting a vertical jump program, you're getting an upper body athlete program
too.
He doesn't just make your lower body powerful.
He makes your upper body powerful too.
And not only does he hit every single muscle in the lower body, he hits the calves.
He hits the hamstrings.
He hits the glutes.
He hits the tibialis anterior.
He hits the quads.
He hits the hip flexors.
He hits the core.
He hits the lower back.
He literally hits everything in your lower body.
And then he says, not only am I going to give you that, you paid $134, I'll give you a full
upper body athlete program as well.
I'm telling you guys, it has strength work.
It has speed work.
It has rate of force development.
It has a reactive speed, reactive strength.
It literally has everything there is.
I'm going to do is program.
Nathanael Morton: That is my conclusion.
This program is 100% fire.
It has everything that you need.
It will not lead you to knee pain, which I'm sure that when you leave your comment of which
program I should do next, I'm sure that I'm going to find programs that lead you to patella
tendonitis and jumper's knee.
His will not do that.
His will actually protect you from patella tendonitis and jumper's knee, if you progressive
overload properly like you're supposed to do.
So, those are my conclusions.
The Flight System from Overtime Athletes is fire.
I would follow Overtime Athletes on YouTube.
I'll leave a link down below in the description for, as a link to his channel because he has
a lot of information and I was blown away by this program, quite frankly.
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