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VIDEO - 4 Strength & Conditioning Drills
for Basketball Players
Check out this video by Emily Nkosi who is a student at Smith College's Exercise and Sport Studies MS Program. The video has some great drills for basketball players to improve basketball strength. These drills will help with:
- Maintainig Position for Rebounds, Defense, & Offense in the Post Area
- Triple Threat Footwork
- Being Strong with the Ball
- And more
WARNING: It's important to make sure the player is moving properly before adding weight or making the drill more difficult. If you take a player who has a bad movement pattern, you're just going to engrain a bad movement pattern which will make it even more difficult to fix. Make sure to improve general movement patterns (running, jumping, shuffling, crawling, lunging, squatting, etc.) before using these exercises.
Basketball Strength & Conditioning Drill # 1 - Getting Position
This drill is great to use for strengthening the body to withstand the aggressive play in the post area. It's great for maintaining or gaining position in the post. It could be applied to offense, defense, and rebounding.Points of Emphasis:
Basketball Strength & Conditioning Drill # 2 - Strong With the Ball
This drill is a great drill to get your players to be stronger with the ball and also improve footwork. Notice, the use of the medicine ball to increase difficulty for the jabs, lunges, pivots, and ball fakes.Points of Emphasis:
Basketball Strength & Conditioning Drill # 3 - Step Backs, Creating Space
This basketball strength & conditioning drill is great for building the appropriate functional strength to create space from the defender on the step-back.Points of Emphasis:
Basketball Strength & Conditioning Drill # 4 - Resisted Start Steps out of Triple Threat
Improve your strength when exploding out of your triple threat position with this basketball strength and conditioning drill. This is also great to practice when faking a certain direction to throw you defender off balance.Points of Emphasis:
Keep Hips Down - Make sure on all of these exercises that the hips are down & back with the knees bent. If your athletes do not do this, they could set themselves up for injury.
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