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The purpose of this blog is to chart my progress during the 12 weeks doing the Complete Conditioning for Basketball Program from Human Kenetics (ISBN-13:978-0-7360-5784-4).

This program has been designed by the NBCCA (National Basketball Conditioning Coaches Association) and is a 12 week off season program.

First of all a little about myself. I am a 41 year old 5ft 7 inch ex national league player who has over the past 10 years has increase my weight from 65-70 kgs to my current weight of 96 kgs. Over the past 4 years I have had a string of ankle and knee injuries mainly due to the stress of the extra weight. I my prime I had a vertical jump of 33 inches and could grab the rim from standing. I could also dunk the basketball now and again off of 1 foot.

For the last 2 month I have been getting a base level of fitness back doing Pilates twice a week and 3 days a week at the gym doing mostly aerobic exercises and also playing basketball twice a week.

I now feel that my body is ready to cope with the training program from the NBCCA to get back into basketball shape and hopefully get my weight down to around 80  kgs and get my vertical back to around the 30 inch mark.

This week I am going to a lot of cycling to get as much weight off as I can before the training starts. I am also going to sit down with my personal trainer to go over the weight training side of the program to get everything ready to start on Monday morning.

To help with the recording of my progress I have just bought some scales that measure body composition as well as weight. These will help show if the training is working or not a lot more accurately than just weight as it will show if my % body fat is dropping or not.