Just plan 1 heavy lower body day each week and do it AFTER a day of rest (or two). BBALL won't affect your upper body lifts as much provided you keep your weight up.
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programming for strength and basketball
Ok I have a small problem maybe you can help me with. I like training for strength but I also like playing basketball and I realize that these two activities don't really benefit each other in that they are at different metabolic extremes. What happens is I let myself do the linear progression without any basketball playing until i run it out and am in intermediate territory. By that time I start playing basketball regularly throughout the week but my squat(and pretty much every lift goes down some). I know that you mention in PPST3 that the lifts may be effect negatively especially squatting if doing sports with a lot of running so my question is how should I program once I am in intermediate territory to try and keep strength gains going or maybe just a "maintenance" program would be better? I was thinking a heavy/medium setup variation might work maybe something like
sunday
heavy day
squats 3x5
bench 3x5
chins
monday-thursday
basketball !
friday
light day
deadlifts 1x5
light squats 90% of sunday x3x5
pullups
does that seem reasonable and if not how would you organize the lifting? When my lifts regress from the playing it is frustrating knowing that i put all the work in to get strong but I guess that is just the way it is. Anyways just thought I would see if you had any type of suggestion. Thanks!
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Just plan 1 heavy lower body day each week and do it AFTER a day of rest (or two). BBALL won't affect your upper body lifts as much provided you keep your weight up.
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so maybe something like
monday-thursday
play ball
friday
light squats and press
saturday
off
sunday
heavy deadlift
heavy squat
bench
I forgot to ask is it ok to do your heavy deadlift set before squats?
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