Basketball mite be classed as a non contact sport but if you go into a competitive game thinking you dont have to be strong you will soon learn your incorrect, so some work in the weight room will help. For some basic upper body exercise to give you a good base to work from you should work on you'r; chest, shoulders, arms and abs. These groups of muscle come in handy during basketball games helping you to fight threw screens, box out, go threw contact and of course to shoot, pass and dribble the ball.
Chest. For the chest you should do some bech, incline bench, Dumbell press, push ups and work some on the cables. Cables are my favorite machine as the list of things you can use them for seems endless.
Shoulders. Shoulders are a key aspect in basketball and any sport as the shoulders connect alot of muscles together. For this you should do some kind of shoulder press, forward and lateral raises, and again make it on the cables. The amount of exercises you can look up for just the sholders on a cable should be enough to keep you busy for a while.
Arms. With dumbells do standard bicep curls, hammer curls, you can also to 21's with a straight bar or Z bar, you can also do over hand curls which will work other parts of the bicep. Start by doing a few pull-ups at first and build them up as working your own body weight is excellant conditioning. Dont forget the Triceps as when you are shooting, passing the arms are extending with the force of the triceps so make them strong too with; Dips, tricep curls infront and behind the head, push downs on the cables and even skull push-ups at first on the floor then build it up onto a ball.
All of these basic weight training exercises will be easy to find online for full video and step by step adive on how to do them correctly. In the next Weights blog i shall be posting some pictures and videos to show for the more complicated exercises i will be talking about.
Chest. For the chest you should do some bech, incline bench, Dumbell press, push ups and work some on the cables. Cables are my favorite machine as the list of things you can use them for seems endless.
Shoulders. Shoulders are a key aspect in basketball and any sport as the shoulders connect alot of muscles together. For this you should do some kind of shoulder press, forward and lateral raises, and again make it on the cables. The amount of exercises you can look up for just the sholders on a cable should be enough to keep you busy for a while.
Arms. With dumbells do standard bicep curls, hammer curls, you can also to 21's with a straight bar or Z bar, you can also do over hand curls which will work other parts of the bicep. Start by doing a few pull-ups at first and build them up as working your own body weight is excellant conditioning. Dont forget the Triceps as when you are shooting, passing the arms are extending with the force of the triceps so make them strong too with; Dips, tricep curls infront and behind the head, push downs on the cables and even skull push-ups at first on the floor then build it up onto a ball.
All of these basic weight training exercises will be easy to find online for full video and step by step adive on how to do them correctly. In the next Weights blog i shall be posting some pictures and videos to show for the more complicated exercises i will be talking about.
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