Chapter 10: Strength Training

Shaq's club party was supposed to last until a few o'clock in the morning, but I had a modest amount of alcohol and didn't want to ruin my normal sleep schedule by going to bed late, so I left close to twelve.

When I got to the door and was about to pull out the key to open the door, I found a small note in my pocket with a name and a landline phone number written on it.

"Jessica, that's a familiar name."

But after drinking, my head was dizzy, and I didn't think much about it, and put the note back in my pocket.

I slept quite soundly this night, and I slept until more than ten o'clock without a dream, but after waking up, my head still had a slight pain, maybe because of the adverse reaction to alcohol.

If you look at the team schedule, there's a game against the Knicks in New York tomorrow night, and everyone on the team will be flying to New York overnight tonight, which means I only have a few hours to spare.

After breakfast, I went straight to my family's separate gym, which doesn't have a lot of equipment, but it already meets most of my needs.

Today's training program is mainly strength training, especially for lower limb strength training, I put it in the first place.

The training process is quite boring, and there are no tablets in this day and age that allow you to run on a treadmill while watching the game live.

However, I didn't get too high about the training intensity of the lower limbs, especially considering that the actual age of Kobe's body has just turned 18 years old, which is not the best time for strength training, so my training intensity only needs to be maintained to a certain extent, on the contrary, it is also very necessary to intersperse some stretching exercises and endurance training.

I adjusted the speed on the treadmill to 10 miles per hour, which is 16 kilometers per hour, which is almost 5 meters per second.

Although basketball games often need to use explosive power, but more often than not, endurance is more important, too much reliance on explosive power to play is actually a very harmful thing to the body, after all, in the previous life, as a person who came over, the concept of health is more advanced, I also hope to use Kobe's body to play until the age of 40, those injuries that can be avoided are also avoided as much as possible, and the body will always be the capital of the revolution.

Time on the treadmill is always very slow, and if half an hour is replaced by shooting, it is estimated that it will pass quickly, but it is quite challenging to continue running for half an hour in one breath.

After running, I did a round of full-body stretching exercises, I tried to add some yoga movements to expand the range of movement of the whole body, I have to say that Kobe's body flexibility is really good, many movements in my previous life I could not imagine, with Kobe's body can be completed very easily.

When I was done, I sat down to rest, ate two bananas and three egg whites, and about half a liter of fresh milk, and then poured on the mat and closed my eyes for about ten minutes.

Then I had to do some warm-up training with two dumbbells of about 20kg, and then rest for 10 minutes after completing one set, and then do pull-up training, each time in a group of exhaustion, a total of three sets, after completing it, I rested again for half an hour, and then did some food supplements.

Finally, I carried out the most intense barbell training, of course, I added a relatively low intensity at the beginning, only gave myself about 70KG weight, a group of 10 bench presses of this intensity, and also did three sets.

After that, I did a full-body muscle stretch that lasted about half an hour, trying to release the lactic acid and metabolic waste products accumulated in the joint muscles to be metabolized by the blood, and finally I collapsed on the mat a little tired, still recalling the heads-up match with Iverson that day.

Now I'm really shocked by Iverson's real strength, that kind of reaction speed if you just watch it through the TV or computer screen, it won't have the most real feeling at all, when he stands in front of you, you will have a great sense of oppression, and that sense of oppression is even stronger than the feeling that Shaq brought me.

It's completely difficult to capture and predict his next move, and even if you can predict what his next move will be, but the speed at which his rhythm changes is amazing, and when you think you're ready for his next move in advance, he can even temporarily change the trajectory and direction of his movement against the sky, which is a terrifying talent.

I think it was also with the terrifying physical fitness and defensive experience of Joe's gang leader, and later he would be shaken down by Iverson's change of direction in front of his body, although Jordan was a little older at that time, but it was enough to show that Iverson was a real ankle finisher, a nightmare for any defender.

In this regard, I also think of some discussions about who is stronger between Iverson and Curry that I can often see in the post bar in my previous life, many people who have just experienced the Warriors' 5 years and 5 finals and 3 championships will feel that Curry's scoring ability has surpassed Iverson, and even many people have regarded Curry as the second point guard in history under the Magic.

While I acknowledge Curry's prowess and greatness at making the most of his three-point and small-ball shots, it's clear that Iverson can be a little bit more impressive.

Iverson has the height of an average person, but he has godlike athleticism, you must know that he completed the free throw line dunk in front of my eyes, although the free throw line distance is shorter than the NBA, but his gliding distance and light feeling in the air are still impressive, and I wonder what Iverson will do if he is willing to participate in the slam dunk contest.

Thinking of this, I made a decision that Iverson would have to participate in the next All-Star Slam Dunk Contest if possible, and I wanted to be able to have another showdown with him there, but this time in a dunk contest.

When it comes to dunking, I have to mention the bouncing force, I didn't deliberately do the bouncing training in today's training, but in fact, the bouncing force often does not only rely on the strength of a certain muscle, it is more like the coordination of the whole body and the common embodiment of comprehensive strength, from leg strength, Achilles tendon strength, core strength to the swing rhythm of the upper limbs, most of the muscles in the body will actually affect the final bouncing completion, so it makes no sense to train a muscle alone in order to improve the bouncing.

The improvement of bouncing is often a by-product of the overall improvement of your physical fitness, but if I have the opportunity, I would like to test my vertical bounce and run-up bounce with a trainer, which can also be used as a reference for me.