1 v 1 streetball

This afternoon I played 1 v 1 from one of the guys from the local uni. My driving to the basket is getting better but my shooting is terrible. My knees and ankle held up fine bit I am still really lacking fitness.

I am going to switch my upper body training day for shooting practice days at least until after the basketball tournament.

The uni team starts training again next week só I am going to see if I can start training with them again.

Tonight I cleaned my gym/playroom side of the garage ready for training on monday morning.

The best thing about the clean gym is it doesn't smell of cat pee anymore.

Aerobic training

Rested  yesterday as my knees were sore from basketball and didnt want  to push it too much.

This morning I am doing 45 minutes on the exercise bike.

Did 45.05 minutes 23.53km 536 cal

Training paying off

The training is starting to pay off. just got back from basketball and feeling much better.

My lateral movement is starting to come back as is my jump.My three point shot is also coming back I scored a couple of nba range shots today that I haven't been able to get close to last week.

Going to get up early tomorrow to do the second set of leg circuits.

Good start to the week

Evento though it is a bank holiday today i was up early and just done 30 minutes on the exercise bike. Did 15.62 km 357 cals on level 2.

Aldo started doing my fitness circuito of:

Skipping 3 sets of 100
Rim tips (8 1/2 foot rim) 3 x 10
Squats 3 x 20
Step ups 3 x 20
Wall squats 3 x 30 secs
Calf raises 3 x 20

Left 1 minute of rest between sets

For cool down I did another 10 minutes on the exercise bike 119 cals 5.27 km on level 1.

The good cool thing about training in the mornings is that it is 8.40 and I have done my training for the day! Also any other exercise I do today will be bonus calerie Burning.

As I have the rest of the day off I AM planning to go for a trail ride in about an hour and a half once my breakfast has gone down.

To further my Weight loss and fitness push I stopped drinking Coke yesterday.

Revised training

I Was kept awake most of last night só didnt train this morining.

Just cone 30 minutes on the exercise bike  did 15.41 km and burnt 351 cals.

Things are worse than I thought in the jumping department! I havê just done 3 sets of 10 rim tips on an 8 and a half foot rim and struggled.

I think that I Need a month of strenght training and aerobic exercise to reduce weight before I start jump training.

Also as it is easter this week I AM going to start next week as I havê monday off só I can take starting measurements of vertical jump to make my training easier to track and set targets more easily.

Jump training

For the next month i am going to the following training:

Monday, Wednesday and friday Mornings 6-7am

Exercise bike 30 minutes
Crunches 3 x 50
Back extensions 3 x 50
Skipping 3 x 100
Squats 3 x 20
Step ups 3 x 20
Jump squats 3 x 20
Calf raízes 3 x 20
Wall squats 3 x 30 seconds

On tuesday and thursday mornings:

Exercise bike for 60 minutes.

Monday, wednesday, friday nights

Warmup exercise bike 15 minutes + 30 minutes stretching

After this I am going to use my adjustable basketball rim to do the following dunks with the rim at 8ft 7inches.

Rim tips alternating hands 3 x 10
Standing 2 handed dunks 3 x 10
Standing left handed dunks 3 x 10
Standing right handed dunks 3 x 10
Running 2 handed dunks left side 3 x 10
Running 2 handed dunks middle 3 x 10
Running 2 handed dunks right side 3 x 10
Running left handed dunks 3 x 10
Running right handed dunks 3 x 10

Total dunks = 3 x 120 = 360

Cool down

Exercise bike 15 minutes
30 minutes stretching

I predict that after a month of doing these dunks I will be able to raise the rim to 9ft

After another month or maybe 2 months I should be able to raise the rim again to 9ft 6 inches and after another month or 2  I should be on a full height rim.

I plan to start training tomorrow morning.

Bad stomach stops play

Managed to play one on one for and hour today before I had to rush home with a bad stomch!!!

Will try again tomorrow morning.

Its not all bad though I have doubled my max chinups from 1 to 2 in a row :-)

I am going to keep practicing until I can reach my goal of 100 in a row which may take a while but it will get easier as I loose weight.

I have decided to re think my training as I have a basketball tournament in 3 month to train for. I have decided that since I cant get motivated to do the circuits as I find fitness training boring as hell I am going to jump straight into jump training 3 times a week in stead!

I found that I have always tended to be more focused on basketball related training that weight and fitness training. I am going to coninue cycling as it is good leg and core exercise trianing and in the evenings on mondays, wednesdays and fridays I am going to a jump training program. I already play basketball on tuesdays and saturdays and I am planning to play on thursdays as well.

I my next post I will describe the jump training.

more workouts done

Tuesday night i walked to basketball and back and played full court for 2 hours.

Tonight i am just finishing 1 hour on the exercise bike. 60 minutes 31.23 km 728 caos on level 2

good start to the week

Last week I had to work a lot so didn´t have much time to train! I did play basketball twice for a total of 4.5 hours. I Also did 30 minutes on my bike to see how long and far the route to work is.

I am writing this post while on the exercise bike so this week is aleady better than last week

Just finished 30.14 minutes 16.03 km 366 cals on the exercise bike on level 2