Golden Hurricane Basketball Training

Golden Hurricane Barkethall amount of force. Research indicates that will be effective in preparing the athlete enhance power in “explosive sports. for their sport. The olympic lifts, with Remember, strength is the ability to provariations and combinations, are ideal for velocity. Speed/strength is the ability of greatest possible velocity of movement. use muscles at a similar velocity and in “strong,” is liberally applied to many aththe same order as needed in sport. In the letes. A “strong” shot putter has vastly of fast-twitch type II fibers.

Speed/strength training, then, is a combiisolated state; therefore, exercises which vaulter. In basketball, the ability to jump over the course of an entire game is paramore powerful athlete. mance. systems must constantly be trained. Skill, flexibility, and balance are also vital.

In selecting exercises for explosive sports we look at the following criteria: a. Is it done standing? of force which an athlete can apply is the b. Is it multi-joint? c. Is it done with free weights? d. Is it explosive?

We use a somewhat standard 4 phase approach to the training year:

Gary Shows Tremendous Explosion on the Pull Gary Collier with an excellent Power Snatch Phase of the Power Snatch Pre Season Sept | until Practice Starts last game.

Vertical Jump. weeks of rest after the season. Some will not take it and others will want a month, good for body, mind, and soul. with the basketball coaching staff to a 6 beginning the 3rd week of March. for 4 days a week. usual because of the youth of the squad. intensity of the work. Also, it includes a on an individual basis. ing work than the other phases of training. rep testing and had outstanding improvethe training formula.

Gary with a Perfect Rack on the Power Clean repeated anaerobic running built a solid 4. Help the athlete to feel very positive cessful team.

Coach Tubby Smith says, “First of all, we have been injury free, not only in the practice, we lift two times weekly as the schedule permits. injury in early pre-season but that cerwill best enable us to achieve the stated tainly was unrelated to our weight trainplay, in fact usually stronger. Not only strong, but the speed/strength training is need (strengths & weaknesses). geared to basketball. We are better prepared to get up and down the court; better able to get up quickly for the basketball.

Our players believe our speed / Tulsa was picked in the preseason by strength training enables them to become the league’s coaches to finish Sth in the a better basketball player, consequently we have become a very good team.” conference with a 15-3 record and completed the season with a record of 23-8. professional.............

NCAA “Sweet Sixteen.” process making slight adjustments in the Senior Gary Collier (the best lifter on the team) received numerous awards and by testing the final week. One red shirt freshman (6’ 11”) who entered the previpoints. Other accomplishments include:

31” jump during this training phase. 1. All-Midwest Regional Tournament Phase HI The pre-season phase is a six-week and running near the end of the cycle .

2. Chevrolet Player of the game vs. 3. MVC player of the year for the increased intensity of both lifting during this phase volume would be about about 85 reps by week six. This allows and a fine man who is always ready to help other coaches and Golden Hurricanes defied the Phase lV The players have no training the week Other notable individual honors on the team were:

“experts” and made it to the Sweet Sixteen . before practices starts. Also, we do not lift during the first two weeks of practice. We subscribe to the philosophy that only training from which one recovers is beneficial.

Coach Smith—MVC Coach of the Year.

Lou Dawkins—MVC Defensive Player of the Year. Shea Seals—MVC Newcomer of the Year. Alvin and evidence indicates no lifting during this period reduces the risk of injury and points, four rebounds, three assists, and Coach Cross recently resigned his position at Tulsa and will go onto personal training. We think so highly of Coach become a better basketball player.

This team achieved more success than The goals of our in-season cycle are: preparation plan. Explosive training and write some articles for our BFS Journal. We wish him all the best. 33 of useage. pad. reduce ankle and knee injuries.

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From BFS Magazine — Fall 1994. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).