Strength is also an important aspect in basketball because you need to be able to hold your own on the court. If you’re focusing more on speed you may use a lighter load whereas with more strength, you’d use a moderate load. Lateral Bounds (Double leg landing, progress to single leg)ĭid you know nearly exercise can be turned into a power exercise? All you have to do is change the tempo and decide if your focusing more on speed or strength as this will determine how fast the tempo of the exercise will be. Power helps players become explosive on the court and this where plyometrics come into play as they can help develop that explosiveness. Power is the combination of speed and strength as it focuses on the amount of work completed of time, more specifically, the amount of force exerted in a certain amount of time. Therefore, in order to maintain high performance in a game, players must possess both anaerobic power and endurance and as a result, such training should be included in their strength and conditioning plans. In a game there are frequent starts/stops, changes of direction and accelerations/decelerations. Why is that? What are our solutions? Set goals to fix your weak spots, work to further improve on your strengths and derive a plan to reach those goals.Īs previously mentioned, power, agility and strength have been indicated as predictors of success in basketball. You’re weak at driving to the net, hitting the right angles but are strong in uncontested shots. Now that we’ve identified the core components of our training, what’s our next step? Identify your strengths and weaknesses on and off the court and use this as your starting point. These will make up the components of your workouts. As a result, strength, power and agility are viewed as key attributes of a successful basketball player (Jack Ransone, 2016).
Basketball is classified as an intermittent sport in which skills are performed dynamically and at high intensities. In order to train for basketball, it’s important that the training is sport specific. Whether its technical skills in the gym such as ball-handling to deke out the defender, shooting drills to score buckets, passing drills to get the ball into that open pocket or working on getting faster and stronger it’s important to incorporate it all into your training regimen.Įvery training program should encompass the basics a good warm-up, mobility, and strength training and conditioning aspects. Not only should your clients be working hard on the court but in the gym as well. There are many aspects to the game of basketball and it’s important to work on each. What is a Basketball Training Program? It’s a training program that is geared specifically to the demands of Basketball. Practice without direction or structure won’t get your clients anywhere, they’ll need to implement a Basketball Training Program. Simply attending their team practices won’t cut it. Does your client want to be the next Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, or even Stephen Curry? More often than not, in any sport, responses to such statements of wanting to be the next great athlete sound like “well you better be willing to put in the work” or “keep practicing and you might get there”.Įver heard the saying that if you want to become “world-class” or master something it takes a minimum of “10,00 hours” of deliberate practice? Although there have been various discussions on whether or not that statement or exact number may be true, there is a lot of work to put in to get to where you want to be in your sport.
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