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From the Office of Rebel Basketball Fitness Coach, Travis Sawyer September 12, 2008 Dear
Friend I know there are thousands of young guys around the world who want to get stronger for basketball and have their weights set at home ready to go, but not really clear on what exercises are going to be the best for getting stronger and bigger for basketball. I know there are thousands more who want to get fitter so they can sprint a whole game, cover their defender, get to the loose ball first and soar through the air for a massive tomahawk dunk. I know that you are also faced with the challenge of trying to do a program that will help you jump higher and a program that will help you get stronger and bigger as well as doing enough running to get fitter and faster than your opponents and fitting it around your busy schedule. I know because I was in the same position when I was younger. I was trying to do a jump program and a separate weights program and do some running on top of basketball training and games several times each week! And I got burnt out. But more on that later.
Because my workouts have been designed specifically for young basketball players to achieve the level of fitness and strength they want with simple workouts they can do at home! I have trained hundreds of athletes from a range of sports and continue to play basketball and do adventure sports like surfing and downhill mountain biking. My body has to be able to withstand anything I throw at it and perform whenever I step on a basketball court. I’m not going to claim to be an ex-pro player. My basketball fitness was not balanced when I was younger. I had the speed and the hops, but not the strength. I have played with plenty of college and Pro players and now prefer to pass on my knowledge to upcoming players because no one was there to help me with my basketball fitness when I was younger. I have worked around the world in the sports and fitness profession and have been doing so since I was 19. I now work with sporting clubs and a small group of health professionals on rehabilitation to get athletes back into sports faster and to prevent their injuries along the way. I am also involved in elite athlete training in a broad range of sports from jujitsu to surfing. But my passion is basketball. My personal workouts are still designed to improve my fitness for basketball and I will be training basketball players for life. When I was 15, I got my first weight set. It was a cheap bench press with a barbell and a couple of dumbbells, and it was mine! I was going to get bigger and stronger in no time. I pulled out the exercise program that it came with and learned the exercises and did the program and nothing much happened. I though to myself, ‘what is the point of lifting weights if all I am going to get is tired and sore and not bigger and stronger?’ I was frustrated. I was upset. And I was ready to give up. Then I found it.
"In one of my basketball magazines I found the weights program that Michael Jordan had been doing in his off season."
This was it. I had surely found the secret to getting big and strong. It also had a jump training program with it as well! I had hit the jackpot! I was again excited to train hard and get stronger and fly like Michael Jordan. So I started the program as it was written out for Jordan. It was weights 4 times each week and jumping exercises 3 times each week. I was already playing 3 games each week and training for 2 to 3 hours each day, but if Jordan could do it, I could do it. I was wrong. The weights program had exercises in it that I had never heard of and didn't know how to do. There were a lot of exercises as well as a lot of sets so it was a really long workout. I was getting too tired to complete it. Then there was the jumping exercises after that, but I was already exhausted. "I gave away the weights training because trying to do what Michael Jordan was doing was just too hard." There were too many hard exercises to do and I just didn't have the energy to do a workout that lasted an hour and a half. Especially not after basketball training. I never knew that I shouldn't be lifting weights so often while I was still playing basketball. I never knew that I should have been eating way more than I was and more of certain key foods as well. I kept doing the jumping exercises as often as I could. I was still convinced that they would work and that I could one day jump high like Michael Jordan. Some days my knees and ankles hurt from all the jumping and skipping. Some days I just didn't do them. I was too tired. They didn't seem to be helping anyway. So once again, I gave up the jumping and focused on my basketball. Not until a few years later did I make any real gains in my strength until after I studied Exercise Science and Strength & Conditioning. And I think I still have that same program lying around somewhere, but there's no way I would give it to any Baller to try. After years of studying every Basketball Fitness resource I could find as well as training others, I put together the Strong Baller program to improve strength every workout, to increase your vertical leap without doing another time consuming program, and to increase your speed and fitness, all in as little as 3 hours per week. How could I give you the benefits of a strength program and a jump program and a speed program in only one program? Well, I discussed what worked best with other elite level and professional basketball fitness and strength coaches and incorporated the different elements into the program. The results that we have been producing are nothing short of amazing! Quite often participants are accused of cheating or being on steroids because of their amazing transformation.
The benefit to you is that I have done all the trial and error work and you get the best program available. This means you get the best results possible out of your body and should get stronger, faster than everyone else. Do you feel that getting stronger at EVERY WORKOUT is going to give you an unfair advantage like Lebron has?
If you are fitter for the game and don’t show your usual signs of tiredness, you will be able to play at 100% for longer and therefore play more minutes each game. If you are on the court more, you’ll score more points, get more rebounds, steals and assists and much greater exposure to scouts and other coaches. You have seen it before, when the season starts and someone on your team is so much fitter than everyone else and dominates everything. They get more minutes early in the season and the chance to cement themselves a starting spot before anyone else is even fit enough.
So you benefit from a basketball fitness program which will get you stronger and as a side effect, gain some extra muscle as well. That extra size is going to help you on the court if you are playing a physical team and need to body up.
You will be able to pick off more passes, stop more defensive plays and get away on fast breaks like never before. Your coach will never complain that you aren’t fast enough and is going to love you being on the court because you can cover the key players and still get away from them in offence. Think about the speed of Dwayne Wade, Leandro Barbosa, Steve Nash, Tony Parker... Do you think that you’ll impact the game more if you are as fast as these guys?
Because of the perfect combination of heavy strength exercises, speed drills and jumping exercises, you will gain inches on your vertical in no time. I’m not going to claim that you will gain mad hops over night. I don’t want any athlete getting mad hops if he can’t land without snapping his ankle! Gotta get strong and explosive at the same time. More hops can mean you are getting 5 more rebounds each game, and a couple of blocks extra plus the ability to finish a fast break with a powerful dunk. People are going to notice you because you are an intimidating force on the court and you stand out from the rest of the team. You may even find yourself on the cover of the newspaper which means people will know who you are. We all know just how impacting a massive dunk is, because magazine covers and the sports section are covered in them. It’s what we all want to see.
This
means less time on the bench or out of sport altogether. It also means you
will be getting less pain after the game, and should feel fresh during the
game so you can play to your true potential. And if you’re on the court,
you will be having fun and have the potential for scouts to see you play. The
truth is, you’re playing a risky sport. Most Ballers end up with stuffed
ankles, knees that are destroyed and bodies that just don’t work any
more. Many don’t play basketball after college because they can’t run
or jump any more with massive pain! I’ve
been there, done that, and IT SUCKS! A prominent sports physician told [strength coach] Eric Cressey that 60 to 80 percent of professional basketball players had degenerative [back] disc diseases in addition to many other occupational ailments. One of the sufferers, David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs, found relief by staying away from the court in the off-season and strengthening his body. As a result, he was able to help his team win the NBA title in 2003. If NBA players are worrying about injury prevention, you should be too!
Did you know that you should not stretch before a game?
Static stretching before a game has actually been known to decrease performance, because it forces the muscle to shorten before it has a chance to move through its range of motion. Shorter muscles also mean increased tightness, which can lead to injury.
Learning the right way to stretch and the different types of stretching and when to use them will increase your flexibility and limit your injuries. Increased flexibility does not seem like a great benefit, until you reach that little bit higher for a block and feel a pull through your back or slip on a sweat patch on the floor and pull a muscle in your leg. To have that little bit extra can be the difference between playing a whole season and sitting out for a bunch of games. Before
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Just think about the opponents who intimidate you. Their skills may be the same as yours, but they are usually bigger, stronger and faster than you are. If you take that away from them, you will know that you can beat them every time. That then leads to their own self-doubt which you can use every time to your advantage. Now you are the intimidator! When Lebron James steps on the court, is he afraid of anyone? Not a chance! He has amazing confidence in himself because he is bigger, stronger and faster than almost everyone he faces. No wonder he has such domination over his opponents. Don’t you feel like that level of self confidence is worth having?
You
can get great results training anywhere, and I’ve seen it time and time
again. As long as you focus on your goals and train hard according to the
principles in the book, you will literally transform into a fast and
strong machine that annihilates your opponents. You won’t have to pay for a gym membership. You won’t have to buy fancy equipment. You won’t have to worry about how to get to or from the gym. You
can focus on training hard and intense. Then focus on your recovery and
especially eating, and have saved yourself the time it would take to
travel to and from the gym. So you get amazing results in half the time!
The
Strong Baller Basketball Strength
Workouts are no more than 45 minutes each time. The speed workouts
are even quicker. If it’s taking you 20 minutes to get ready, then
go to the gym, then store your stuff, train and repeat the process to get
home, you would have used around 40 minutes without even lifting a weight
or running a step.
Look,
this only touches on the wealth of information jam packed inside the
Strong Baller program. If only I had this information when I was in high
school I would have been much stronger and could have taken my basketball
so much further. To prove to you how good my workouts are, I’ve given you a Basketball Fitness Workout for FREE! (If you haven't signed up to get it yet, YOU SHOULD). I want you to have the opportunity that I didn't There's no way I could promise you real results if I didn't know how the Pro's are training. So I'll show you! I've
also included some of the best videos of NBA players basketball fitness
workouts in their Off-Season, so they too can get bigger and stronger,
faster and jump higher for the next season. Although they are doing some
advanced stuff, it's inspiring to see how they train in the Off-Season and
know that one day you too can get there. But first, you gotta start with
the basics. Remember, they too started right where you are now, and I have all the answers laid out for you in the Strong Baller program. You will get more out of this program than you can imagine. I couldn't believe how much higher I could jump in such a short period of time, as well as how much muscle you can gain without steroids! I'm going to show you step-by-step how to get your body to PRO level.
Here’s what you have to do next.
Still not convinced that the Strong Baller Basketball Fitness Workouts are going to be the best investment you make? Here's just a quick look at even more of the confidential information you are about to discover...
It took me years of trial and error, thousands of dollars in research and hundreds of hours of studying books, manuals, magazines and websites, before I could cut through all the crap and downright incorrect information, to find what works best for basketball fitness - even with my background in Strength & Conditioning. So why shouldn't I make it publicly available to anyone who wants it? So I took all the information that I had collected over the years, all of the programs, all of the videos, all of the tips from experts, everything I could find - and put it into my Basketball Fitness Program "Strong Baller" – it’s a series of eBooks that gives you everything you need to know to get stronger, gain muscle, run faster, jump higher and stay healthy - all for less than the cost of a new pair of sneakers!
This is what you get...
This manual details exactly how you should train to improve your game and get bigger, stronger and faster at the same time How you can keep your body healthy throughout the season and get it in even better shape in the Off-Season. What mistakes some of the Pros make and how you can avoid their injury problems. How to train around injuries so when you are fit to play, you are in better shape than when you got injured. How to change your In-Season training so you can keep the muscle you have built in the Off-Season and stay strong year round. And much more!
This program has been designed for the young athlete who has not lifted weights before or had little experience with lifting weight. It
contains three 4 week programs which progress from body weight
exercises which encourage correct form and core stability, to
weights exercises that help to teach correct form for major compound
lifts.
This program has been designed for the young athlete who has not lifted weights before or had little experience with lifting weight. It contains four 4 week programs which are cycled in 3 week intervals. The program incorporates body weight and weights exercises to encourage solid form and keeping your strength throughout the season.
This program is for the athlete who has done a year of weight training in the past and has good knowledge of major exercises, good technique and a solid base of strength. It contains three 4 week programs which focus on increasing strength and size in the major compound movements and addresses areas you may not usually train but are important in your overall development. It also contains speed and conditioning drills to get you in shape for the next season.
This program is for the athlete who has done a year of weight training in the past and has good knowledge of major exercises, good technique and a solid base of strength. It is a continuation of the Off-Season program and focuses on keeping the strength you worked so hard for. It contains four 4 week programs which are cycled in 3 week intervals.
This manual lets you know how to eat to bulk up in the Off-Season, how to best recover from workouts, how to eat before big games and tournaments. It details what foods are good for keeping your size and strength through the season, because it's not all training, and explains the balance required to keep your body at its best. It also details what foods to avoid, what can decrease performance and what will keep you healthy year round.
This manual details the importance of the right exercises to warm up with. The Ultimate Warm-Up for Explosive Movement goes through how to warm up for different activities. 1.
How to warm up for strength workouts
The Exercise Directory is your reference manual to go along with your program. It gives you pictures of all the exercises we use in the Strong Baller program. With all the pictures are descriptions of how to complete the exercises in a safe manner so you can stay healthy while you train.
Smoothies For Athletes If you're an athlete, you need to be able to eat quality food fast. Smoothies are great for eating on the go and getting enough food to fuel your body. If you are bulking up in the Off-Season, you definitely need to make use of smoothies to get extra calories. This book from Trainer Ryan Lee & Gourmet Chef Cathy Leslie contains over 100 recipes for tasty smoothies.
I
want it Trav,
Armed with all this new secrets you are going to have an unfair advantage over your opponents, and I'm going to prove to you that Strong Baller is your ticket to amazing gains in the weights room and on the court! I was going to have this basketball fitness package printed up and available by direct mail, but I am so busy training people that I don't have time for printing, distribution and product not being delivered, not to mention all the increased cost to you. I would have to charge a fortune. You would also have to wait for it to be delivered. But I want you to be able to put it to use right away. The good news is I have decided to produce it as an instantly downloadable e-book. That doesn't only save me money, It allows me to pass the saving on to you. In just minutes you could be putting the Strong Baller program to use. I want this to be affordable to as many dedicated young Ballers as possible. And this way you can have the program now, and if you want to print it out you can put it in a binder to take with you wherever you go. In 2 minutes you could have what you have been looking for right at your fingertips.
Wouldn't you agree that it makes a lot more sense to follow a program designed for basketball players by a basketball player and save yourself years of trial and error to get the results you deserve... ...than to fumble around on your own and waste months, even years experimenting with inferior workouts which may result in injury? As a special offer, you can download Strong Baller for the special price of only $49.95 (value - $596) and I will also throw in some bonuses worth $126 for free! That's over $700 worth of products for only $49.95! We cannot guarantee this price for long, so make sure you get your copy today! Don't wait another minute to order at this incredibly low price, because the price will be going up soon. Even I can't believe how little I'm charging for this program. But I am that committed to getting Baller's strong. Don't let your opposition dominate you for another game. Blow everyone's mind at tryouts with your new found Size, Strength and Speed. Here's
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P.S. This is a NO RISK deal for you to try the basketball fitness workouts and see the results. If the program does not work for you and you are not Bigger, Stronger, Faster, and Jumping Higher in 8 weeks, you can keep it and I will refund your money, no questions asked. I am happy to give you this deal because I guarantee it will work for you, as it has worked for thousands of others! P.P.S. If you are tired of wasting countless hours doing
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