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Darius Garland | Train Like | Men's Health

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00:00My favorite basketball player growing up was my dad, Winston Garland.

00:04He actually told me not to lift when I was younger until I got into high school,

00:08so I didn't really start hitting the weights hard until my junior year in high school.

00:13So I used to go into weight room around 5.30 before school was started,

00:17just to get my body intact and just start trying to develop some of the muscle growth I was going to start to get.

00:22What's up, guys? This is Darius Garland here from the Cleveland Cavaliers.

00:26Today I'm going to show you how I work out and how I recover.

00:30My first couple years in the NBA, my vets used to always tell me about being in the breakfast club

00:47to come join them in the weight room in the morning. Now, it's in my routine. I come in before games

00:53and get a lift in. It's keeping me on the floor a lot more than I used to in the past couple years.

00:58The NBA season is super long, so some of my training goals is to stay durable for the entire 82 games

01:05of the season plus playoffs, just to get stronger, get faster, and get a lot more shiftier.

01:11Yeah, shiftier is just giving my different movements and try to shake my defender out of his shoes sometimes.

01:17Typical workout for me in the weight room is just getting the body moving a little bit,

01:22try to get some vibes and tries in for my arms so I can stay strong while I'm getting through screens,

01:28get some leg works for my glutes and my hamstrings and my quads, and then I'm off to the court,

01:33get some shots up, get some floaters in, get some free throws, then I'm getting ready for the game.

01:38My least favorite workout is definitely lateral lunges. It hurts a lot, but it's worth the pain.

01:46Come join me in my workout. Let's go.

01:51My favorite exercise is dumbbell incline for sure.

01:58For any bumps that you take or willing to give, especially on the offensive end or the defensive

02:03end of the floor while you play basketball, you know, just to give a little off to yourself,

02:09to get some muscles right. Try to balance training and the on-court stuff together. Get in here early.

02:16Try to get as early as I can. Try to get in the weight room. Definitely when you're in the weight

02:20room early or even on the court early, it's going to show some of the young guys that

02:26the veterans aren't doing it this way. So just get your work in here early and just get it over with.

02:29Favorite basketball player growing up was my dad. I'm a Kobe Bryant fan and a Kyrie Irving fan. So

02:40those are my top three. Teammate I like training with the most is probably Tristan. Tristan just

02:47brings a lot of energy to whatever room he's in. So in the weight room, he brings tons of energy.

02:51He's always listening to music. He's screaming after every set. He's flexing in the mirror after every

02:57sense. Just show off his muscles. It brings out the competitive nature in you. Get my muscles a

03:02little bit like his. My workouts are totally different from in-season and off-season. You know,

03:06in-season it's over 82 games plus the playoffs. So it's not a lot of time that you just put into the

03:12weight room. So I have about 30 to 45 minutes in here just to get everything together, keep it intact.

03:18But in the off-season, I have a lot more time. So my weight room session is probably about an hour.

03:23You get more things in during that time. You have a lot more time just to relax in the off-season as well.

03:36This one right here is called Dead Bugs. Knees to the ball.

03:43So opposite leg, opposite arm. You do this for like 20 reps. So 10 and 10 each side.

03:53Probably for like two sets. Just get the core fired.

04:02Go-to meal is probably like just a smoothie for a workout. Not a like a heavy eater like that. So

04:07I'll just take a smoothie with some proteins or probably a bar just to get my body going a little

04:13bit. And then I'll go get like a big lunch after a good lift. Diet is probably like my first thing that

04:19I really think about and I really just take accountability to. Just to keep the body right.

04:24Make sure no garbage is going into my body. Try to eat pretty healthy. Have some vegetables in

04:30in my diet as well. Just so I can keep flourishing. What you put in is what you get out. So if I put

04:35good stuff in my body, I know the next day I'm gonna be ready to come in the weight room and get a good lift in.

04:39The buzzer beater was in Detroit. Tied ball game 115-115 with five seconds to go in the fourth quarter.

04:49Take the ball out after a free throw. Go to length of a court. Logo three, I pull up. Shoot the three

04:56and just stand there and make a little pose and that was game. Just so fast my teammates just ran

05:01over to me and just started hugging me and picking me up. It's like a childhood dream and a childhood

05:06memory that I've had for a long time. Just being in the backyard counting down for five seconds

05:12all the way down to one until you shoot the shot until this goes in. It was a really cool moment for

05:17me and my teammates as well. It's a really big win for us so I'm glad that we got the win.

05:24That's dead bugs right there. That's my favorite core exercise. I like to come over here and do like

05:29some of my shoulder workouts. This is called the Kaiser. So this is just for the rotator cuff and

05:35the delts. So just start like this in an L shape. It's coming for your shoulders.

05:51Just use this for rotator cuffs just to get it moving, get it loose.

05:56Sometimes shooting a lot of shots, your shoulders get tight.

06:00So it's just a way just to loosen up just to get it going a little bit.

06:05And I do this pretty much every morning. It's like part of my routine now.

06:11Get the shoulders moving a little bit before I go out there and shoot on the floor.

06:19Do a lot of recovery for my legs. I go with the Norma Tech for a full body

06:26recovery. I'll just go cold tub to hot tub with the contrast of hot and cold.

06:31I have a hyperbury chamber where I get some really good rest in. I'll take a nap in there for about 30

06:38minutes to an hour just to refuel the body, replenish the body. Recovery is important just to

06:44just get the mind and the body right. Just to make it feel like you're back to normal.

06:49Especially with all the games that we have in the NBA season, it's pretty important just to get the body

06:53and the legs back moving so you can be ready for the next game because the games are compacted back

06:58pretty fast. So just get the recovery in, get your legs, get your body back right just so you can be

07:04up for the next game. I had a torn meniscus in college at Vanderbilt University. Just being back

07:08in the weight room definitely helped me while just strengthening my quad for my knee. I try and get

07:14that back healthy. Just being in the weight room definitely helped. I was doing a lot of single leg

07:18strengthening just so I can get my quad back to the size that it was so I can have strengthening

07:23from my knee. I try to stay mentally healthy by just really talking to my therapist, talking to my

07:28family, talking to all my loved ones because they mean the most to me. They are my support system so

07:33whenever I am having a bad day or not having the best day for myself, I usually just call on my mom

07:39or my dad just to hear their voice. They usually put a smile on my face and that just made my day.

07:44I'm just a kid from Gary Deanna. Someone told me to come get in the weight room when I was younger.

07:49I got in there and now I'm here. You guys should come get up and get active.

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