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Any good coach will tell you that there is more to building strong, healthy basketball players than simply running drills and playing games. The fact is that the best basketball players have well-rounded fitness routines that include weight training, aerobic exercise and drills to target the specific skills that require development and training.
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Jogging is fun. You have to jog if you want to play basketball because this is the best thing to do when you are conditioning for this game, while not in the gym. Now, some people actually prefer jogging inside. Yet others prefer to jog outside. Why is this? There are a number of benefits [...]

There are many things that you can do to improve your athletic performance, for example, by resting an appropriate amount of time. One of the easiest ways that you can also improve your performance is through proper diet and exercise. However, when it comes to game day, you want to make sure that your body [...]

If you are training hard, you may not understand how important rest is to your fitness goals. After all, it can be incredibly tempting to push yourself in an attempt to build bigger muscles, more endurance and skills which are beyond compare. However, you may find that if you are short on sleep your performance [...]

Developing a proper warm up routine is absolutely crucial in any sport, and is especially important in high speed, high impact sports. It is utterly crucial to ensure that you are warmed up and ready to go for practices and games, as going into them could drastically increase your chances of injury, and can [...]

Injuries happen, you cannot predict them, nor on occasion can you prevent them, but you will need to know how to deal with them even before they happen or you could without thinking about it make them even worse. This is not to say that you need a medical degree to play basketball, or [...]