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From exercises personalized by Stephen Curry's director of performance to UConn team workouts, Azzi knows how to put in the work to reach her goals. The basketball star takes us through every movement in her in-season upper body workout routine that she does 3 times a week–it's no easy feat! Take a look.
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00:00Let's see how many pull-ups I can do.
00:01Wait, I'm nervous. What if I can't do very many?
00:22Okay, god.
00:24Thanks. That's not very many.
00:26I can do more later.
00:27That was just, yeah.
00:29Hi, Self. I'm AZ Fudd.
00:31Come work out with me.
00:40So today, I'm going to take you guys through my in-season upper body workout.
00:44I'd say I do this two, maybe three times a week, depending on our schedule.
00:49The workout takes like 20, 20 minutes.
00:52It's not bad. Like, you get in what you need and you get out.
00:56So to start, we're going to do mini band shoulder external rotations.
01:00And this is something I do as a warm-up.
01:01I'm doing 10 of these.
01:04Do you know what it helps with?
01:06In your shoulders.
01:13And then, next we're doing band pull-aparts.
01:17We also do 10 of these.
01:19To warm up your shoulders.
01:22So I work with Stephen Curry's director of performance.
01:26His team writes out a lot of my workouts to personalize them.
01:29And then I do the team stuff as well.
01:31Next.
01:33I'm not actually sure what these are called.
01:34They're like band rotation things.
01:37Like in a split squat.
01:38I'm just going to reach.
01:39Which, don't judge mine.
01:40My range of motion is really bad.
01:43I'm working on this.
01:50This season, I'd say my goals in the weight room have been a little different.
01:55Because I'm working on like just my base and like foundational strength.
01:59I'm not playing catch up or doing rehab.
02:01I'm working on just building on what I have.
02:03So, being able to do upper body and then lower body stuff.
02:07And working on just continuing to get stronger.
02:08Continuing to build on my reaction time.
02:11And not worrying about like, oh, this injury.
02:13Oh, that ache and pain.
02:14The team is really good about making sure that it's specific to me.
02:17So whatever aches, tendonitis, anything that pops up during the season.
02:21We're attacking that right away before it starts to linger and becomes an issue.
02:25We gotta flip sides.
02:45The last step of my warm up is going to be prone T-raises.
02:52And we've got ten of these.
03:10Nice.
03:12Good to warm your shoulders up before you lift and shoot the ball a hundred million times.
03:18First we're starting with dumbbell bench press and a tripod row.
03:23We're doing six bench presses and I'm using 45s.
03:45Next we have a tripod row.
03:48And this you want to go heavier so I'm using a 55.
03:51And I'm doing eight of these.
04:00I'd say my goal this season is really to stay present.
04:03Of course, I've made goals long-term.
04:06But I think focusing on my short-term, my day-to-day, practice-to-practice, game-to-game goals.
04:11Making sure that I'm coming in every day.
04:13Being the best player, teammate, leader I can be.
04:16And like I said before, just working on building and that carryover.
04:20Making sure every day I'm getting a little bit better.
04:21Knowing that this is my last year here, every game is a highlight for me.
04:25You know, everywhere we play it's my last time at that location with this team.
04:29So everything is super special and exciting.
04:37Great.
04:38Now we're doing neutral grip chin-ups.
04:41And I'm using this chair to get up here because I don't feel like jumping up here.
04:45We're going to do four of these.
04:51We are going to do four or eight.
04:57And I'm using this chair.
04:58Easy.
04:59Now for the land mine rest.
05:02We got to set that up.
05:03Depending on my mood, what music I listen to.
05:06I'm usually more of like a chill.
05:09Like 24x7 chill.
05:11Rap, R&B kind of person.
05:14I don't know.
05:16Not too heavy.
05:17Heavy enough.
05:19I'm grabbing a pad as well, actually.
05:29Six of these.
05:51All right.
05:53The last set of exercises we have is core stuff, which is one of my favorites.
05:58I'm going to clean this up first, actually.
06:07We are going to do three exercises, maybe four.
06:11We'll do four exercises.
06:13First, we're going to start with stability ball.
06:15Wait, what is it?
06:16Stability ball body saw.
06:17Okay.
06:18That is a mouthful.
06:20First, we're going to start with stability ball body saw.
06:23We're going to do 10 of these.
06:25It's on your forearms.
06:27These are easy.
06:30Of a lifting workout, I think feeling the burn of a basketball workout.
06:35I don't know, maybe seeing the ball go in the basket.
06:41Basketball workout, missing shots.
06:43A lift workout, when you're sore while working out.
06:46Okay, next we're doing weighted dead bugs.
06:56I think I usually do 10.
06:59Or today I'm going to do 10.
07:00So we're going to say 10.
07:10I don't think I have a favorite team to play.
07:12I just think any team that we play that has a really good student section, actually, because
07:18students heckle more or yell more.
07:19You hear them more, so it's more fun when you can hear them booing you.
07:24No, no least favorite team.
07:26Next, I'm doing supine windshield wipers.
07:29And we're also going to do 10 of these.
07:37Oh my back just cracked.
07:44Oh, right now?
07:45I don't know.
07:47Let's find out.
07:48I used to be able to get like 12.
07:51I think I could do like maybe eight.
07:57Perfect ones though.
07:58They don't count if they're not perfect.
08:00Okay, cool.
08:01Okay, last one we're going to do push-up with rotation, which might be one of my least favorite
08:06things.
08:06I hate push-ups.
08:08I used to love them.
08:09I like to ask you how to do this.
08:09As you can see, I just want to cut them down.
08:09I just want to cut them down, you say, do the safety show.
08:17I like to cut them down, like this is a good one.
08:24I like to cut them down because I'm just gonna succeed, just like I want to make myَ
08:31-l tadi, I just want to cut them down. I
08:32like to cut them down. You
08:32know, you're going to make a nice little bit of the video. I
08:37want to cut them down.
08:39mican so we're going to do a ton in a row of a couple different mican drills
08:58and then reverse the reverse
09:18perfect all right next we're going to take a step back and i'm going to do
09:22call these like scissor shots like between the legs into a shot helps get me warmed up
09:27my footwork ready make sure i'm just in the zone i'm locked in with everything everything's
09:31you know coordinated together i usually do this at halftime too
09:48i have to edit out these misses
10:01thanks for working out with me myself
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