PROGRAM ASSUMPTIONS: - High school athlete who played football and is now a starter on the basketball team - Athlete has one year of lifting experience - Most basketball games are on Tuesday and Friday nights - Weight room has various specialty bars but no reverse hypers or GHRs - bands are available but no chains - Lifting will be done the day after games - the athlete may be fatigued from the games, but training will not interfere with the next game's performance this way. This will help auto-regulate the training. Basketball is the priority right now. - The team is 8 weeks away from playoff time - Athlete is approximately a 300lb squatter (with parallel box) and 225 bencher WEEK 2 WEDNESDAY - LOWER BODY 1. Banded hip mobility 2. roll out psoas,TFL, upper glutes and IT bands 3. Seated Hip Abduction x 80 total 4. groiners - 80 total 5. Speed squat w/ Rackable Cambered bar vs light bands - 4x3 w/ a plate 6. Work up to a heavy set of 3 with bands still on after speed sets - top set should feel like a 9 out of 10. Basically a 3rm, but DO NOT fail. Should take about 4-5 sets to get there. We have a weak opponent this week and the kid is feeling pretty good so we can push. The 9 out of 10 is not set in stone. Opportunity is there so let's take it. 7. Pistol Squat to bench - 3x8 - bwt - hold 10lb plate 8. Back Extension - 3x15- add 25lb plate 9. abs with weight - 100 total 10. chin up - 3x 8 - whatever makes 8 reps hard to achieve. Add weight, less band help etc. 11. banded hip mobility     SATURDAY - UPPER BODY 1. Banded shoulder traction - 30 reps/ position 2. roll out pecs, ant. delts and lats 3. banded upright row - 3x20 - light, pull band apart at top 4. speed bench vs. micro minis - 4x3 @95lbs 5. DB incline bench - 3 x fail - hit failure around 8-10 reps 6. Chest supported DB row - 4x10 7. Chest supported Y raise - 4x 20 8. Bis and Tris superset - 4 minutes 9. banded overhead side bend - 4x20 10. banded shoulder traction All accessory movements should be controlled, no momentum with a 4-second negative.

Nate Harvey
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