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Are your players overtraining? |
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 How to recognize when a player is doing too much during his off-season training
By Jackie Ansley
Coaches are always trying to motivate their players to work hard. As athletes get bigger, faster and stronger, getting an edge over your opponent is more crucial. So, as athletes work to get that edge and become committed to put in extra hours to achieve their goals, their tendencies to overtrain become prevalent. Too many athletes think more is better. And once athletes get into this cycle, their workouts start to get less productive.
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Left, right, left right... |
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 Being able to change direction on the court – quickly – is imperative. Here’s how.
By Dustin Wolf
Basketball is a continuous flow of movement, whether it’s more relaxed in recovery of position or intense on the ball defending, you are in constant motion. Transitions in positions, angles and speed happen continuously throughout the course of a game. The art of developing a multi-directional reactionary athlete requires very specific training. If the game of basketball is all about inches, angle, spacing and timing, you must address your training in the same fashion. To develop the ability to transition in and out of various body positions, evaluate certain distance relationship, decelerate quickly, set an accurate angle and explosively accelerate into an new direction, you must learn how to do this continual flow “a movement into a movement.”
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The Art of Lateral Quickness – Part 2 |
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 Basketball quickness means you must build your lateral explosiveness. Here’s how.
By Dustin Wolf
It’s a common scene on a basketball court. The defender sets up in his stance, driving the shooting guard to his left. The defender’s eye stays on the guard’s waist so that he doesn’t lose focus of where his body is going. And then the guard blows by him. Frustrating? You bet. It’s one of the most frustrating feelings you can have as a basketball player. The key is building lateral explosiveness. By moving laterally with explosion and quickness, you can become a shut down player on the basketball court. Following are two more exercises you can use to enhance your defensive skills.
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The Art of Lateral Quickness - Part 1 |
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 Quickness on the basketball court means going side-to-side – fast. Here’s how.
By Dustin Wolf
It’s late in the game and your defense has to hold steady. In almost every key defensive situation during the game, your players are getting beat off the dribble. That’s a no-no on the basketball court. Agility and multi-directional quickness is the ability to go, stop, and go again – all while changing direction and accelerating. The key is to build your lateral quickness. Following are several exercises you can do to enhance your defensive moves.
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Fundamentals of another kind |
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Practicing proper nutritional habits are a step in the right direction
By Jackie Ansley
The preseason is an important time to focus on basketball fundamentals. It's a time to pay close attention to the little things and practice them over and over until they become second nature. But one of the basketball fundamentals that often get too little attention during the preseason, and the basketball season itself, is exercise nutrition.
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