1st Practice w/ My HS Basketball Team!

My opening conversation and workout with them

This week I had my first practice with my high school basketball team.

My opening conversation and workout with them started with Alan Bishop, the head strength coach for the University of Houston men’s basketball team.

Houston has been the biggest outlier in college basketball over the past 5 years.

Relative to their recruit rankings upon starting, they’ve done BY FAR better than all 300+ other teams, and they’re known for being the most physically dominant team of all.

They do a lot of great things!

But there’s one thing SIGNIFICANTLY different between them and 99+% of basketball teams:

They’ve built a culture of ABILITY in LOW positions.

I’ll use quotes from Alan Bishop as I guide you along progressions they use:

Here you can see them mastering the bodyweight deep split squat: “Knees over toes.”

Then you can see them gradually loading a deep squat with the heels elevated, using dumbbell or kettlebell:

“Bulletproofing in progress.”

“Limber as a Russian ballerina.”

Then you can see gradual barbell loading:

“Keep stacking good days.”

“Squat low. Jump high.”

The reason it works is because LOW ability is the most missing area in the game of basketball itself.

We don’t bend very deep when we play!

Thus, there’s untapped POTENTIAL for greater knee protection and greater lower body strength by addressing this missing zone.

So I started my team with the most SIGNIFICANT thing about the most SIGNIFICANTLY overachieving basketball team.

We learned the deep split squat:

We learned the deep squat:

(Lucky is trained to attack if a trainee loses form, so as you can see, form was incredible from the first session.)

Then we went onto the basketball court and began gradually learning the skills of the game as the same type of step-by-step progressions.

My jump program on the app will track their journey, and I’ll be doing it with them, getting gradually stronger year-round, with 4 different phases that I will make as we go. The Spring phase is the first phase after the season. That’s where we are now.

BUT THERE’S NO RUSH.

Let’s say you started right now at no weight.

Next week 5 pounds.

52 weeks later you’re over 250 pounds with perfect form in a full squat?

See why I’m in no rush?

This is a PERSONAL THING.

And everyone will have different levels that equate to how they want to feel on the court.

Nothing replaces the GAME.

This is part of the SUPPORT.

And like the game, it should be enjoyed.

So I hope to help my students make WINS, feel BETTER on the court, and:

Learn exercise skills for LIFE.

But I will NOT be pressuring how much weight they use.

Thank you for reading today!

Can’t wait to be back in touch next week!

Yours in Solutions,

Ben

My Exercise Skills For Life and Squat Low Jump High programs are on the app, tracking my journey with general students, my basketball team, and even my weekend faculty classes - and still with the lowest price I’ve seen for form-coaching: atgonlinecoaching.com

We also make our own ATG squat ramps and mobility boxes at atgequipment.com

And to see if a coach or gym near you is doing this stuff: map.atgforcoaches.com