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Off Season Training Essay

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Choice of Exercises: Off- Season training is very important to an athlete’s season. Off-season is the opportunity to build up your strength, stamina, and speed for the upcoming season. During off-season for basketball I would choose to do both long-distance running and sprints, but focus primarily on the sprinting aspect. Long distance would include something like a timed mile, while the sprinting aspect would consist of sprints around the track for a certain number of minutes. Basketball is a back and forth game, so you need both stamina and the sprinting aspect. For arm exercises, I would do bicep curls, triceps, shoulder presses, and dumbbells. I would also include legs, including leg press, lunges, leg curls, and squats while using weights. Having strength and power is important because you are constantly …show more content…

The first half of conditioning would be spent on the track doing sprints and long distance running. After the track workout we will be go into the weight room. Half the group will focus on weights, like leg presses, lat pull-downs, leg curls, and bench press, while the other half will be doing squats, push ups, crunches and lunges.
Intensity Exercises: During off-season training the athletes will be going all out during conditioning and pushing themselves to their fullest capacity. You want to go all out in the off-season because once you start the season you start to focus on maintaining instead of building.

Volume of Exercises: The track workout will be about 45 minutes. The warm up will be 1 lap jog around the track and then the sprint workout will begin. It will consist of sprinting 10 seconds then walking 10 seconds 3 times in a row and then go to 20 seconds, 30 seconds, and then 1 minute. The weights section of the workout will consist of 3 sets of 10 repetitions on each machine and with the squats, lunges and abs workouts as

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