With basketball season well underway, I decided to do some research and take a look at how last summer’s basketball bootcamp survivors were faring in their seasons. This group of guys committed two days a week for the majority of the summer to the intense basketball specific strength, speed, and conditioning workouts that the bootcamp provided and the results were evident as each one of the guys that attended is having success at their respective schools.
Elite Basketball Bootcamp Survivors…An Update
The Real Functional Training
Basketball players should always be looking for new, innovative, and effective ways to train our bodies. Their training should be functional or focus on improving strength as it relates to their sport. Strongman training is an increasingly popular form of functional training. This is a direct result of these exercise’s ability to increase speed and explosive power through strength gains in the posterior chain and the core.
Tire Flip Conditioning Circuit
Hey guys, here is a great conditioning circuit I did to finish off a workout. The tire weighs about 475 pounds. I start at a specific point and each time I flip the tire I do 1 pushup, plyometric jumps through the tire and then sprint back to my starting point. In this video, I ...
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