I will also be headed to the basketball court tomorrow (if there’s a game – never sure with these guys) in the afternoon.  I doubt lifting weights will have any significant affect on my play.  The main issue I would have is if I ran myself into the ground, but I’ll keep my legs fresh.  As the subjects of weight lifting and basketball clash, the question will inevitably come up, does weight lifting affect your shot?

I would say yes it does – in a positive way.  Now granted, I don’t think it’s optimal for a shooter to lift weights and then go out and expect his shot to be the same later that day but getting stronger will help your touch as long as you remain consistent in integrating basketball and weight lifting.

To keep a positive impact, you need to make sure you don’t just drop basketball for the iron and then come back to basketball a few weeks later.  If you do this, there is a high likelihood the added strength will improve your jump shot.  First, legs are the base of your jumper.  If you can develop a better foundation, you’re less likely to be knocked off balance and you’ll get better elevation on your jump shot.  Also, having stronger arms is going to help you get shots off in more difficult situations where you’re trying to hang longer in the air.

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Does Weight Lifting Affect Your Shooting?

First, you’ve got to start off with what you have.  If you can’t rep out the 30 lb dumbells yet, you can’t do it.  That’s fine – everybody starts somewhere.  So you’ll start with 3×10 dumbell curls as a means to find out where you’re at.  You want to pick a weight that is very challenging to complete the first 10 reps and that you can barely complete your second set with.  Your third set should be a failure with you having to drop the weights before picking them up to finish off the set.

Whatever that weight is, that’s your base weight.  Every curl day for the next 6 weeks, you’ll begin with dumbell curls and build off your first base weight.  For example, in your second curl day you’ll probably be at the same weight but by your third day you’ll want to add another 5 lbs on each dumbell.  You’re probably not ready to handle this weight, but that’s the idea.

Pushing yourself on curls is the foundation to building bigger bi’s.  You should constantly be reaching failure on your curl exercises and having to complete them after a rest on the third set and possibly even second set.  Apply this philosophy of third set failure and exhaustion on all of your curl exercises.  One caveat is to always accept a failed set before you cheat on your form.

Next blog we will continue the bigger bicep discussion with different types of exercises that build the height and circumference of your bicep.

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How To Get Huge Biceps