Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Prepping for a Basketball Tournament

This week, I'm gonna make some adjustments to my training since I have a one day inter-law school basketball tournament this Sunday. It's gonna be quite physically demanding since we'll be playing 3 matches within 6 hours. We won the same tournament last year. This year, I'm lighter yet stronger and more explosive, so I'm looking forward to scoring more points and defending our title!

So this is what my training this week looks like:
Tuesday:
1. Dynamic Effort Squat (slightly above parallel)
--> my theory is that u wanna mimic the way you jump on the court, personally i bend my knees really slightly when I jump. This is how I adjust my squats before a game coupled with a light weight so as to focus on being explosive. did 6 sets of 3
2. Chin-ups
3. Lat pulldowns
4. some shoulder prehab with dumbbell

Wednesday:
1. Bench (maintenance work)
2. some arms work as well. will post a detailed log tmr.

Friday:
1. Dynamic effort Box Squat
2. shoulder mobility
3. some core work

As you can see, other than the typical push/pull/legs split im having these days, it becomes kinda like maintenance for the upper body and explosive legs. This is the first time for me to really plan ahead in order to maximize performance for a basketball game. Usually I just take a couple training sessions off and replace them with balling. Additionally, I've started to incorporate band stretching into my warmup routine. Still on the testing stage. Will update on whether I'm keeping it in the next couple weeks.

Some footages of the dynamic squats I did today:



Peace

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