How a Center Should Train

Hey what's going on everybody! This weeks post will be on what center's need to be good at, and how they should strength train to do so. First off, the site below I believe writes about everything a center needs to have in order to be effective in the game.         http://www.mademan.com/mm/how-train-basketball-center.html

In order to be physically effective a center must have strength. A center's strength should be in their legs. It is the center's legs which allows them to push anyone out of the paint and jump. To get strong legs a center should do squats or use a RAM sled to build up their quads. They should try to do more than their body weight in order to quickly build up strength. Next, a center should have strong calves in order to improve their jumping ability. Calves are naturally very strong so one should be able to throw up a lot of weight.

Next, a center should build up their chest and arms. To strengthen the chest, a center should do bench and do push ups. Benching will tear the chest up, and push ups done right after will exhaust one's chest. For arms a center should focus on triceps and forearms. Biceps and shoulders will also help but triceps and forearms are most used. For triceps I would do tricep dips using your own body weight. This will tear up your triceps, increasing strength. With strong triceps a center will be able to increase his range. Forearms are mainly used to have a tight grip on the ball so it won't be poked out. For this, a center should do reverse curls.

 

The final aspect a center has to build up is their core. This will help increase their jump height. To do this a center must do a variety of ab exercises. Ab crunches, leg raises, and oblique raises are the most common.

All exercises should be done in 4 sets of 10 repetitions each. This will make strong, lean muscles with a lot of stamina