Basketball In-Season Workouts
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During my early competitive basketball career, strength training was seen as solely an off-season focus and was classified as “optional”.Once the regular season hit, resistance training became legitimately optional. The only time most of the guys on the team saw the weight room was when they were cutting through it on the way to the locker room.
Even guys like myself who actually had a side interest in bodybuilding misused resistance training in-season. (I was more interested in providing the fans with a gun show… if that’s your goal, check out any of the routines in our workouts database. Your performance will suffer, but at least you’ll look ripped.) However, if you want to be truly competitive on the court, you have to take your strength training periodization seriously.
In this series of workouts, we’re going to cover basketball training periodization during the offseason, preseason, and in-season. Since we’re already in the midst of a competitive season, we’ll begin with an in-season routine any player can perform.
In-Season Strength Training
Basketball training as a whole can be broken down into 3 training phases. Offseason, where you try to build both muscle and strength. Preseason, where you try to maximize your ability to create power. And in-season, where you try to maintain your lean muscle size, maximum strength, and power output.
In-season training is also important for injury prevention.
When you’re in the middle of your competitive season, intensity is high in nearly every other aspect of the game though. Practices are intense. Games are intense. Stress to perform at a high level can also be intense.
In-Season Basketball Workout Routine
The following workout routine is a 2 days per week full body workout routine for basketball players currently in-season.The workouts were created to focus on injury prevention and lean muscle and strength maintenance.
They emphasize core strength as well as muscle groups surrounding common areas of injury concern for basketball players: knees, ankles, lower back, and groin.
The workout as written shouldn’t take you longer than 30 minutes to perform. Keep your rest periods to a minimum. They should only last between 30-60 seconds in between each set.
The workouts should be performed the day after a game. For most athletes who play 2 games per week, you’re most likely to play on a Monday and Thursday and/or Tuesday and Friday. By performing the workouts on the day after a game, you’ll allow adequate time to recover prior to your next game.
This will also likely coincide with your most intense practices of the week as well. Making it a tough training day, but you got this.
During my early competitive basketball career, strength training was seen as solely an off-season focus and was classified as “optional”.Once the regular season hit, resistance training became legitimately optional. The only time most of the guys on the team saw the weight room was when they were cutting through it on the way to the locker room.
Even guys like myself who actually had a side interest in bodybuilding misused resistance training in-season. (I was more interested in providing the fans with a gun show… if that’s your goal, check out any of the routines in our workouts database. Your performance will suffer, but at least you’ll look ripped.) However, if you want to be truly competitive on the court, you have to take your strength training periodization seriously.
In this series of workouts, we’re going to cover basketball training periodization during the offseason, preseason, and in-season. Since we’re already in the midst of a competitive season, we’ll begin with an in-season routine any player can perform.
In-Season Strength Training
Basketball training as a whole can be broken down into 3 training phases. Offseason, where you try to build both muscle and strength. Preseason, where you try to maximize your ability to create power. And in-season, where you try to maintain your lean muscle size, maximum strength, and power output.
In-season training is also important for injury prevention.
When you’re in the middle of your competitive season, intensity is high in nearly every other aspect of the game though. Practices are intense. Games are intense. Stress to perform at a high level can also be intense.
In-Season Basketball Workout Routine
The following workout routine is a 2 days per week full body workout routine for basketball players currently in-season.The workouts were created to focus on injury prevention and lean muscle and strength maintenance.
They emphasize core strength as well as muscle groups surrounding common areas of injury concern for basketball players: knees, ankles, lower back, and groin.
The workout as written shouldn’t take you longer than 30 minutes to perform. Keep your rest periods to a minimum. They should only last between 30-60 seconds in between each set.
The workouts should be performed the day after a game. For most athletes who play 2 games per week, you’re most likely to play on a Monday and Thursday and/or Tuesday and Friday. By performing the workouts on the day after a game, you’ll allow adequate time to recover prior to your next game.
This will also likely coincide with your most intense practices of the week as well. Making it a tough training day, but you got this.
