Trying out for a few basketball teams(insight needed)possible routine sharing

Chinahype · Jan 16, 2011

If you want one leg explosiveness...simply train one leg jumping. Try one leg squats, one leg toe ups etc.. and of course simply try to jump your highest when doing some layup drills off one leg.

jcee15 · Jan 16, 2011

RV6 said:

There's something awkward about your movements from what i remember.....not fluid enough i think. Not sure if that's the issue, maybe it's your flexibility.

Overloading the calves is overrated. What youre training is mostly the soleus, as the actual calves actually bend the knee, rather than straighten it or give the pushing motion you're after. That just strengthens the foot push off, but not the knee and hip extension involved in a jump. Work on that, especially hip, since it's often overlooked. Since you want to work each leg individually, try the one legged squat, bulgarian split squat, and weighted step ups. Also, maintain a good balance overall and work out the opposite muscles as well. If you don't, then it's like trying to do a bicep curl when your bicep is already curled too much. Its cuts your range of motion, which cuts back on the amount of force you can generate in the movement.

You also have to realize you may have maxed out your genetic potential...at 5'8, 170 and cut, that's a significant amount of muscle it would seem. You need more fast twitch muscle fibers to get that explosion and you may not have enough.
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I like your response, well thought out. Esp. the stretching, I have been working on that and it seems to be improving my range of movement.

However, I have never really lifted weights, so I couldn't have reached my genetic peak IMHO. The difference in 1 month is night and day. I have yet to do anything exclusively explosive besides hooping.

I'm looking to do so now, but again, great post, repped.

Dave2000 · Jan 16, 2011

jcee15 said:

I'm not trying to disguise that I'm good at basketball, I am.
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Jc is a straight killer on the courts, the game of Manu on Red Bull

DaDakota · Jan 16, 2011

jcee15 said:

This makes sense DD, I'm polishing my rythym on step back NBA 3's, pull up college threes off a hesitation that mimics my shot gather going both ways. Anything inside of that is wet.

I was given gifts from a pure athleticism standpoint, never punctuating on them continues to haunt me. I feel like I'm swatting flies off me when I get bumped now that I lift. All except the 1 leg explosion.

Also, you have to add speed to the mass equation. If I'm going to the rack full speed and take off headhunting, I'm going to bump the **** out of anybody in my way, hang and finish.

I can do that off two feet, I need to add the one foot jump with the same force to add a weapon to be respected to open my/my teams game.
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I doubt you ever get that ability off of one foot because your balance is not coming off of 2 feet, or your core/center.

But, do you use the jump stop? If you are better at jumping off 2, or exploding, then work on making the jump stop a core of your game at the rim.

If you are quick, utilize it, you being left handed is already a major advantage as most people are taught to force a players left....work on changing speeds..and lulling defenders to sleep on the bounce, change the cadence in which you bounce the ball, study how others bounce it, and work on reaching in as the ball leaves their hand to the ground rather than on the way back up.

Lots of ways to gain advantages at your size, lots....

Think of it this way....Calvin Murphy never worried about exploding off of one leg and playing through contact, he worked on exploiting the pockets in a defense and getting off a quick midrange shot.

And the midrange is key too for a shorter player, as that shot is almost overlooked today.

Good luck and let us know how it goes......

DD

PS. Being a quick thinker and understanding the spacing portion of a game and movement is more important than anything else....

jcee15 · Jan 16, 2011

Dave2000 said:

Jc is a straight killer on the courts, the game of Manu on Red Bull
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Yeahhh sonnnnn, lol. I'm gonna rep you for the BBQ, not the post.

jcee15 · Jan 16, 2011

DaDakota said:

I doubt you ever get that ability off of one foot because your balance is not coming off of 2 feet, or your core/center.

But, do you use the jump stop? If you are better at jumping off 2, or exploding, then work on making the jump stop a core of your game at the rim.

If you are quick, utilize it, you being left handed is already a major advantage as most people are taught to force a players left....work on changing speeds..and lulling defenders to sleep on the bounce, change the cadence in which you bounce the ball, study how others bounce it, and work on reaching in as the ball leaves their hand to the ground rather than on the way back up.

Lots of ways to gain advantages at your size, lots....

Think of it this way....Calvin Murphy never worried about exploding off of one leg and playing through contact, he worked on exploiting the pockets in a defense and getting off a quick midrange shot.

And the midrange is key too for a shorter player, as that shot is almost overlooked today.

Good luck and let us know how it goes......

DD

PS. Being a quick thinker and understanding the s p a c i n g p or t i o n of a game and movement is more important than anything else....
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I've always loved Timmy Hardaway, my game has a lot of similarities in terms of a quick look off, chop chop.
Good advice on the midrange, I always incorporate that when I put shots up.

I'll let ya'll know either way, image is nothing, obey your thirst. -Sprite, a subsiderary of Coca Cola, all rights reserved.

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