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Basketball Strength Training
Posted by: Stavros Aloizos
As we get into the full swing of the basketball season strength and conditioning can set you apart.
There are many ways to improve your strength. However not all of them are appropriate or useful to your "game" if you are a basketball player.
Over the next few weeks we at D1Scout will cover the best ways to enhance your strength, and maintain or build your power through the season.
With basketball players playing on a year round schedule, utilizing some of these techniques can truly enhance or better your "game".
For the year round ball players, the maintenance program described in the context of this post can also be used during your AAU, Club or Travel season.
So let's get started with this first installment!
There is one and only one objective of strength training for basketball. And it's ridiculously obvious...
To improve your game!
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Flexibility Training
Posted by: Stavros Aloizos
Flexibility training is perhaps one of the most undervalued components of conditioning and athletic
performance. However research shows us that it can have significant benefit for all athletes in
performance enhancement and injury prevention.
From a slam-dunk to a three quarter court pass – flexibility of the bodies muscles and joints play an
integral part of all basketball movements. In general terms, flexibility has been defined as the range of
motion about a joint and its surrounding tissue during a passive movement. Passive in this context
simply means no active muscle recruitment is required to hold the stretch. Instead gravity or a partner
provides the force of the stretch.
For our purposes Flexibility Training will encompass both static and dynamic stretching as well as the
larger speed/strength continuum that most of our players require.
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Does the athletic website representing your son or daughter project the proper college recruiting image?- Does your child get the proper exposure required in today’s competitive college recruiting landscape!
Posted by: Stavros Aloizos
Let’s face it in today’s highly competitive collegiate recruiting landscape your athlete ( AKA: son or daughter) needs all the help and also all the exposure they can get. So many truly gifted athletes fade into obscurity due to lack of exposure or being involved with the wrong programs that think having a web presence for information is not important. Many feel that all they need do is get out and play and any site or no site will do. Is that really the case? Do you really think that college coaches are not doing their homework and looking kids up using all types of capabilities at their disposal? So many coaches on the college level are using the internet to do much of their groundwork. You can’t deny that every college program has a deep rooted understanding of the internet and its communications capabilities and efficiency. From personal experience my child’s AAU program sent 8 kids on D1 & D2 rides all over the country. Aside from their talent they had a tremendous web based tool to communicate schedules, tournament participation, performance accomplishments, results, and various other information to set them apart and keep coaches that were interested informed.
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