Basketball Weight Training

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Greg Koenig owner of fitness for life. And today we are going to discuss weight training for basketball players. Here again we are going to try to simulate movements that are actually on the court without actually being on the court. What we are using for an overload progression is the medicine ball. And what Hunter is going to do is a jump press squat ok. This is a plyometric movement, ballistic movement very fast paced to simulate real action in a basketball game. Ok Hunter we are going to assume position. Basically we want the feet parallel, bring the feet a little closer together, why don't you walk closer to the step. An added element to this is as he jumps he's extending the ball towards the ceiling which creates a little more of a difficulty for the movement. Ok. And you are going to drop down to a squatted position, and we are going to explode through his legs as he presses up, nice landing, step off, bring the bal back to the chest. You can see his lower body the massive muscles in his legs are being recruited here. Primarily quads, hamstrings, and the lower the bend, the more glute. Also the calves. Those are the springers if you will, in the jump. The last part to leave is the toes, so he is coming from his heels, the power is being generated through the balls of his feet. You've got three more, big push, high jump, soft land, step off. We want to minimize the impact on this movement by breaking the knees as Hunter just displayed on the landing. So what happens is that power with the force is not being generated as much through his lower back, it's being distributed evenly through the quadriceps, and hamstrings. Very big explosive movement. This is Greg Koenig with fitness for life and that concludes our talk about weight training for basketball."