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a few questions, anyone who knows sth, pls feel free to enlighten me..

1) what purpose does the bench serve, at least for a baller, and as an exercise in itself?
cos when i do it, i generally don't feel my pecs being stressed all that much, instead when i am close to failure, i feel it in my arms and chest. i guess my point is, does it really work the chest all that much?

2) RDL--- straight back ala squats, or slight round?
i think im doing it wrong, i cant really feel my hips extending...
i set my weight on my heels, try to make my hips go as far back as possible, but on the way up, i suppose i dun feel it all that much.
abit, but not as much as i reckon it should, given that i think RDLs are supposed to be a hip driven exercise...

a few questions, anyone who knows sth, pls feel free to enlighten me..

1) what purpose does the bench serve, at least for a baller, and as an exercise in itself?
cos when i do it, i generally don't feel my pecs being stressed all that much, instead when i am close to failure, i feel it in my arms and chest. i guess my point is, does it really work the chest all that much?

are you referring to barbell or dumbell bench? if you're not feeling it in your chest enough with barbell, try out dumbell variation.. lighten the weight a bit and go full rom.

there's a few things you can do to feel it more in the chest:
- use a slower eccentric (negative tempo)
- use a slower overall tempo (slow down, pause, slow up)
- use holds at the bottom: pause for 5s, shifting the weight to the chest

well, bench itself is not the most important thing for improving any specific basketball SKILL quality.. but it's definitely important at making you generally stronger, this strength will carry over to rebounding, setting picks, and other scuffling. i mean, to a point, it can help improve passes/range on a jump shot, but it's not going to be linear gains, as in, improvements in ball handling/shot range are not going to be directly correlated with increases in bench press.
 

 
2) RDL--- straight back ala squats, or slight round?
i think im doing it wrong, i cant really feel my hips extending...
i set my weight on my heels, try to make my hips go as far back as possible, but on the way up, i suppose i dun feel it all that much.
abit, but not as much as i reckon it should, given that i think RDLs are supposed to be a hip driven exercise...

slight round? never..

go with 'neutral' back.. excessive arch = bad.. rounding = bad.

try keeping the weight on your entire foot, instead of heels.. see how that feels.. should cause more hamstring/glute activation because of less counterbalancing..

but keep spine neutral.



peace man

yesterday evening

shot some hoops. hit alot of my threes, 3 in a row, 4 in a row...
just too bad that come gametime they dont go in as much.

tried a few jumps.
2 joints of fingers above mostly, for both 1 footed and 2 footed approaches.

previous highs of half palms above were at different rims, this is slightly higher.
should be regulation ht i suppose.

thing is... both felt sub-optimal... definitely didnt feel like my best... something's wrong somewhere haha.
mayb i should do like someone's sig,
jump to the rim lol.

well rim's of different heights can definitely play tricks on your mind..

so what's your best on the rim you just jumped on?

being sick sucks... 

no more fever/cold, but im still coughing my lungs out every time a coughing fit kicks in..

played some pickup on sat and sunday...
resting and hoping that i'll be ok by weds for the game.

any idea what to do? vit C?

playing winded sucks. had a pretty decent individual game, 2/3 treys, other points were either frm breaks or freethrows. missed only one.
had 20 points or so, didnt keep track, but we were blown out haahha

sucks. and got banged hard on one possession, fat lip and uber bruised quads...
had wanted to squat today, but looks like its not possible..

No more fever or cold, but still havin the coughing fits... Which leaves one gassed haha.
Gonna go to the gym later, mayb some upper body work, stepups with just the left leg, some rdls if I can..