Basketball Training XVI

Wednesday August 19
Repetition Upper Body

Warmups
DB benchpress on stability ball: work up to 35 x15, x15, x19 (PR!)
Lat pulldowns w/ fat bar 4x8-12/ 60, 70, 80, 90 Supersetted w/ Rear delts (on pec deck) 4x8-12/ 40, 40, 50, 50
DB military press: 4x8-12/ 20, 25, 30 x7, 25 x11
DB curls 3x 8-10/ 12, 15, 15 Supersetted w/ Skull crunchers 4x10-15/ 20 (bar wt.)
Half Landmines: 3x8/ bar, 10, 10
Overhead side bends: 3x8/ 40, 50, 60 (cybex)
Bridge circut: 3x30 seconds ea.

RE brought in a friend of hers who plays her old position at her old high school (follow all that?); i.e. point guard. EU is a sophmore (also known as the Mute because she talks soooo much) and has done some prior weight training at the high school. She did well today and held her own. I purposely kept her volume of work down (compared to RE's) so as not to kill the girl the first time out. She has potential and perhaps we'll see more of her in the future. RE continued to impress the local gym rats with her (strong!) 35 x19 third set. One of them watched her bang the reps out and told her afterwards how "impressive" her latest feat of strength was. Indeed.

Getting strong(her),
Ed T.