My athletic training journal (WSFSB+VJB)

ME upper (HIGH)

4 Board Press- worked up to 335x1 (PR), will get 300 atleast next week on regular bench

DBbell incline- 3x6 90’s

Seated Row Wide Grip thick bar- 3x6 200lbs
ScareCrows with Blast Sraps- 3x8

Shrugs- 55’s 1x30 seconds

Did some hard drilling/shooting/1 on 1 playing later (won all 3 games)
Really need to start playing more hard basketball and get in better shape
Probally should not have but dunked one or two weak dunks on the side hoop which is probally only 9 11 or so, almost felt better off of one foot today (left hand)

Core Work, PNF, Foam Rollar, and dribble work

Maximal Effort Jumping (HIGH)

decent warmup, played a quick 2 on 2 game

did some good one legged and two legged rim grabbing, left leg right hand felt much improved and was getting higher than ever

got a couple volleyballs down and some weak girls ball or two(many missed as well)

low box depth jumps at rim- 20 total jumps, touched rim solid most of the jumps, box only about 14 inches and got significantly higher than 18 inch box

low box single leg depth jumps- 3 per leg

played a few hours of 3 on 3 halfcourt and one or two games of full court basketball, not the best competition but still good, also did some drilling, right handed drive is def feeling more explosive

did not have a squat rack so just at my house finished later on with

BSS iso hold jump- 6s-4r-6s-4r

Good mornings- 3x10 115lbs

Squat jumps (with reset)- 3x4
3 steps and jump- 4 jumps

did a little bit of stretching and foam rolling later on with a few situps/crunches throw in

Will switch and try to set training week to look like this

Monday- Shock method/varying jumps+SE Lower/balling drilling (High)
Tuesday- Core work/flexiblity/light bball (LOW)
Wednesday- Sprints+ME upper/ balling and drilling (HIGH)
Thursday- Core work/Flexibility/light bball (LOW)
Friday- Maximal Jumps+Shock/SE Lower/balling and drilling (HIGH)
Saturday- Balling and drilling/ REP upper (LOW)
Sunday- off

Basically trying to fit more into a high low sequence with monday and friday being most important and being 96 hours seperated

On your warm-up, you have probably just needed an extended dynamic warm-up. It’s probably good stuff, what you have been doing but not enough to set you up optimally for better jumping-not that early in the session anyway. It’s why, I’d guess, you jump better either after a w-u + a few min. of bb or simply a slightly longer session of bb(rather than a full game, etc.) then jumping. Obviously, there is a limit to this where you need to cease the bb session and begin the plyo session before you are past your peak for the day.

If it’s tough to tear yourself away from the bb, just design an extended dynamic warm-up with, perhaps, some low intensity plyos as lead-ups before the high int. drills that comprise the body of your jump session. If you think about what Joe D and others, for that matter, are doing, he’s got his guys doing that w-u and then they warm-up in their lifts, also, before reaching the high point/peak of that particular exercise. So instead of a 10 min. or so w-u, go with one that’s closer to 15-20 min in duration.

Shock training/jump variants+SE Lower

Depth jumps at goal post 21 inch box- 10 jumps
Depth jumps at goal post 25 inch box- 10 jumps
[b]Depth jumps at goal post 29 inch box/b-10 jumps
Could definitely feel the difference at 29inches, the “minimum” that Verkhoshansky recommends, will slowly integrate more of this height, probally going 10 jumps at 25 inches next and 20 at 29 inches next week…

single leg depth jumps 8 inch box- 5 jumps per leg

standing broad jumps- 3 jumps
standing triple jumps- 2 jumps

Parallel Squat- worked up to 315, focusing on form and depth

Step ups w/ barbell- 3x6 135 (no knee drive)

Glute Ham raise- 3x8 BW
Hanging calf raise- 3x6(per leg) 55’s

Squat jumps- 135lbs 3x4
3 step and jumps- 4 reps

Foam Roll, PNF, core work, and dribble work at night

I’m trying to pm you back but your box is full-I’ll be here a little longer but then I’ll lose the p.m. I just typed.

ME upper

good warmup

Bench- 3x1 at 275, was not feeling to ready today so kept it at this weight

Floor Press- 3x6 100’s

Seated Row thick bar- 220lbs 3x8
Scarecrows w/ blast straps- 3x8

played some basketball and drilled

Just played some good halfcourt basketball today, 1 on 1 and 3 on 3, have to go as hard as possible when i play D and O to start picking up my level of play. Will do some more playing tommorow, take sunday off, and go to some ME lower work for the next two weeks and then into my final phase before i leave- shock training with depth jumps- approx 400 jumps from a 29inch height over period of 5 weeks(40 depth jumps beg of week 40 depth jumps end of week)

REP upper

Dbell Bench- 75’s 18 reps, 12 reps, 10 reps

One set of Latpulldown and seated dumbbell power clean

Played some hard 3 on 3 for a few games.

ME lower

warmup

box squat(slightly above parallel)- worked up to 415x3(PR), satisfied with this since did not do any heavy/ME box squatting for 2 months, will do SE squat Friday and then another ME box monday(do not feel the need to test max on regular squat)

Reverse Hyperextensions- 3x8 50lbs
Hanging calf raises- 3x6 65’s

Sprints+ Upper weights workout 1 (Kelly Bagget’s Bench 6 week routine)

quality warmup

6 ten’s(yards)- best time 1.74 HH

3 twenty’s- best time 2.80 HH

sprints done on fieldturf with track spikes

Bench- 205x8, 225x6, 235x5

Dbell Floor Press- 90’s 8, 5, 5

Seated Row- 3x8 200lbs
Face Pull- 3x8 100lbs

Dbell Shrugs- 3x20secs 35’s
Hammer Curls- 3x10(per arm) 35’s

played some decent 3 on 3, gotta remeber to do shooting work on my Low days(Tues Thurs)

decided to change up bench routine because have been doing ME work for awhile, will do this KB 6 week program “Coax 30lbs out of your bench” http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/kelly21.htm which will be good because I can focus more on basketball but hopefully still make solid gains in upper body strength(and finally get 300)

You are over 75% on the second to last set and at 80% on the last set…Still high intensity, you can maintain your strength at 70%, this will also give your CNS a break.

your right there i guess but I am looking to gain to and yesturday was a high intensity day, still it is not max effort in the sense i dont have to go all out to get the set which will still save me a little…

Quick warmup

Tempo- 1300 total yards- done on field-
100 yds, rest 40 seconds, 100, same rest as before, 100, rest, 100, rest, 100, rest, 100
Rest 3 minutes
100, rest, 200, rest 70 seconds, 200, rest 70 seconds, 100, rest 40 seconds, 100

2 reasons why Tempo wil be extremley good for my training

  1. Will get me in better shape by improving my work capacity without hurting any of my explosive training by not using slow twitch muscles

  2. Will help recovery as opposed to a lot of “conditioning” that hurts your recovery and breaks you down

Also did some good shot drilling

Hey man

Tempo looks good. Just be smart about working it in. A lot of non-track athletes will do it and do it too hard and it ends up cutting into their high intensity work. Others have it cutting in too, but that’s just because they don’t have the preparation needed to do what they just added. Just be careful about how you’re adding it in, which I’m sure you are and will be.

Haha well i hope it looks good your the one that gave me the tempo workout, but yea the next day i felt decent(not great), but i think as my body gets used to ill feel fine the next day, you think i should keep it on the fieldturf and should i ever do it barefoot? Ill probally do it like that exactly for the next 2 weeks then cut down the rest time a little.

Ball+Upper weights(KB workout 2)

played some 5 on 5 full court, played okay but not very athletic and a little dead from yesturday but still good work

Bench- 220lbsx5, 250x3, 280x1

Dbell Bench- 2x10 85’s

Pullups deadhang- 3x6
Seated Dbell Power Clean- 3x6 25’s

Curls- 3x8
Tric Pushdown- 3x8

did some light shooting after and thats about it for the weekend, will start shock method training on monday and I am pretty pumped.

interested to see your progress with this bp program, depending on your ability level you may get good gains.

Yea me 2, i figure it will not really affect me either way(my bench press is significant enough for a basketball athlete) but i just want to expirement with it and get a way from all of Defrancos Max Effort work for awhile and see if good results come to, I am also using the same approach to an athlete with a significant lesser bench press(only about 165lbsx1) so i that will be interesting to see too, ill let you know…

I already done the bp program, it worked really well with one of my hs female athletes but didnt work that well for myself.