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Before you put on your basketball shoes, read these articles to improve your basketball skills. You’ll find basketball tips on jumping, fitness training, basketball coaching and basketball training… To browse our library of free sports training articles, browse using the categories on the left or use the search box.

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Short and sweet – why all sportsmen and women should consider 40m sprinting!

Short and sweet – why all sportsmen and women should consider 40m sprinting!

Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?

Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?

Strength Training for Basketball: How to improve your strength and power on the court

Improve Your Jumping Ability and Basketball Skills with the Right Weight Training Workout

Increase Vertical Leap and Improve Jumping Ability with Plyometrics

Plyometric Exercises to Make You Jump Higher and Further

The Drop Depth Jump: A plyometric exercise to increase vertical leap and improve jumping ability

Plyometrics Training: The drop depth jump

Zig Zag Sprints

Zig Zag Sprints

A useful agility drill to develop acceleration, deceleration and rapid changes in direction whilst sprinting.

The Single Arm Low Cable Row

The Single Arm Low Cable Row

The single arm low cable pull unilaterally strengthens the upper back while at the same time improving your ability to move weight with one arm.

Ladder Drill: One Foot in Each Rung

Ladder Drill: One Foot in Each Rung

The most simple of ladder drills can be used for beginners and young athletes to teach them about moving quickly. The ladder drill can also be used to teach running mechanics.

Ladder Drill: Two Feet in Each Rung

Ladder Drill: Two Feet in Each Rung

A progression from the One Foot in Each Rung drill, challenges the speed of co-ordination of the athlete.

Ladder Drill: Two Forward One Back

Ladder Drill: Two Forward One Back

One of the more complex ladder drills, it helps develop co-ordinated quickness in two directions: forwards and back.

Lateral Ladder Drill

Lateral Ladder Drill

Challenges co-ordination by teaching quick lateral movements. This drill can also be used as an aid for teaching correct lateral movement mechanics.

Lateral Zig Zags

Lateral Zig Zags

One of the most common movements in sport is running side-ways on an angle. This drill helps develop lateral speed and changes in lateral direction.

Agility Drill 1

Agility Drill 1

This agility drill is great for learning to decelerate and rapidly change direction following a period of acceleration.

Agility Drill 3

Agility Drill 3

This drill is designed to focus upon quick feet movements followed by an initial acceleration. The quick foot movements will help “prime” your body for the sprint and rapid change of direction.

Agility Drill 4

Agility Drill 4

Similar to agility drill 3, this drill offers a little more challenge to the co-ordination of the athlete by having them side-step in and out of cones before a sprint.

Agility Drill 9

Agility Drill 9

This drill can be performed as part of a warm-up or as a separate agility drill.

Dynamic stretching exercises increase jumping ability

Basketball Warm-ups to Increase Vertical Leap

Basketball players: What you drink can improve your basketball skills

Maintaining hydration can help improve your basketball shooting and performance

Half-time nutrition – what’s best for maximising fulltime performance?

Half-Time Training for Team Sports

Skills Based Training: Female Games Players

Skills Based Training as an Alternative to Traditional Strength Training

periodisation

Periodisation: Advanced strategies for bringing your performance to a peak at just the right time

agility

Agility: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee: sport-specific drills for boosting agility

successful coaching

Successful coaching: The secrets of success with high-level athletes

How Athletes Perform Under Pressure

Choking under pressure

pre-conditioning

Pre-conditioning - or how to do the preparatory work needed to stay in tip-top training condition all year round

weight training for women

Weight training for women: Why women avoid weight training - and how coaches can change their minds

carbohydrate electrolyte drink

How carbohydrate and electrolyte drinks help team sports players

complex training

Complex training: The potentiation effect - can one training mode really enhance another?

drugs in sport

Drugs in sport: “Far from being unfair, drugs that enhance performance actually promote equality”

drugs sport

Drugs in sport: Let athletes take drugs, but I don't want them in my club - or at my Olympics'

off-season training

Off-season training: Three off-season programmes to set you up for what lies ahead

Plyometric Exercise | Power Training

Plyometric Exercise and Power Training

Fitness programmes

How to design a sports-specific fitness programme

fitness program

Fitness program - How to design a sports-specific fitness program

Running economy 2

Running Economy 2: How to make headway on improving running efficiency: can freeloading African women provide some important clues?

Knee joints

Knee Joints: Knee instability has more to do with work than sport

Speed Training

Speed Training: Talking turkey: why hill work helps athletes in football, rugby, basketball, cricket - and even running

Smell of success

The sweet smell of sporting success

bilateral co-ordination | training

Bilateral Co-ordination: Why dexterity alone just will not do: some lessons from a young piano player

lateral preferences

How to overcome lateral preferences and end up with two dominant legs:
Owen Anderson offers practical guidance on how to identify your own dominant side - and bring the other side up to par

Strength training | strength programs

Strength training programs

running surfaces

Running Surfaces: Why Haile boycotted the Atlanta oval - and can tuned tracks improve your own performances?

medicine ball training workouts

Medicine ball training workouts: Does medicine ball training really work?

Muscle Imbalance

Muscle Imbalance: Why detecting muscle imbalance is an essential part of an injury-prevention strategy

Shin splints 1

Shin splints: These exercises will help to strengthen your lower legs, and prevent or repair shin splint problems

Caffeine

Caffeine proves less of a help to team sports sprinters

Longevity

Longevity: Exercise helps you to live longer, but how important is intensity?

Sports Knee Braces

Sports Knee Braces: Does wearing a knee brace improve or hamper your ability to perform?

Conditioning

Conditioning: Next to cross-country skiing, running is the best type of fitness training for all sports.

Biological clocks

Biological clock-watching can give your performance an extra boost.

creatine facts

Creatine facts: The latest research results are all good - and don't believe the rumour that it causes cramp.

Choline

Choline: Supplements of this essential compound have helped swimmers, basketball players and distance runners

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee injury and prevention

The knees of female athletes are very vulnerable to injury, especially ACL tears. Here's what to do about it.

anaerobic performance testing

Here's a new running-based test of anaerobic performance for which you need only a stopwatch and a calculator.

vision in sport

Vision In Sport: A guide to improving performance by training the eyes.

Ginseng

Ginseng: Another scientific study gives the thumbs down.

running foot injuries - plantar fasciitis

Running Foot Injuries - Describing plantar fasciitis is easy: It's simply an inflammation of the fascia on the bottom of the foot. Getting rid of plantar fasciitis is hard

Infection and sport

Infection And Sport: Which infections are spread during sports activities?

HIV risk and sport

Hiv Risk And Sport: What's the real risk of HIV transmission during sports activities?

Music and sport

Music and Sport: Music hath charms to soothe the savage workout - or perhaps it doesn't.

Cross Training Workouts

Cross Training Workouts

"run-play" training

"run-play" Training: These workouts can boost fitness, speed, endurance and correct weaknesses - and are fun to do.

Anterior cruciate ligament (acl) injuries, treatment, training and surgery

Complete tears of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) - the key ligament which bonds together the upper and lower parts of the leg at the knee - account for more than two-thirds of all knee injuries in skiers and are fairly common in other sports as well.

Does foot structure affect injury rate?

There's been considerable confusion concerning the effects of foot structure on injury rates. Some researchers - and large numbers of people in the population at large - believe that individuals with low-arched feet have weak foot structures and are more predisposed to injuries in the lower extremities.

overtraining effects on performance

Overtraining Effects On Performance: If you want to prevent staleness and overtraining, keep a record of your quality of sleep and levels of fatigue!

Reading the game

Reading The Game: While lesser mortals grind out victories with their patient shots, eliminating risks and playing the percentages, the truly gifted seem to conjure with time. They bring an unhurried genius to their game that allows them to play shots with an audacity that sometimes surprises even them.

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention exercises, rehabilitation and training techniques

These four exercises can help prevent your ACLs blowing up - which is especially good news for female athletes.

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury prevention exercises, rehabilitation and training techniques

These four exercises can help prevent your ACLs blowing up - which is especially good news for female athletes.

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