| As a basketball player, you understand that there are | | | | What's the solution? Easy! The solution is to find |
| only so many hours in the day. You have to decide | | | | exercises to workout your body that are efficient and |
| how many of those hours you want to spend | | | | quick. That way you can spend as little time as |
| practicing free throws, or three pointers, or jump shots | | | | possible on that and spend most of your time building |
| or anything else on the court. | | | | up your shooting skills. |
| But on the other hand, you have to decide how many | | | | On exercise that I like in this area is stair running. If you |
| of those hours to spend on body work. By body work | | | | have access to your school's gym, then stair running is |
| I mean muscle workout. | | | | a great exercise that will build up your calf muscles |
| Many, if not most basketball players at the lower level | | | | amazingly, and it will also help with your speed, agility, |
| (I'm talking about high school and below) elect to spend | | | | quickness, and your defense (you'll be able to move |
| most of their time working on their game. That is, they | | | | your feet quicker and thus be able to guard your |
| spend most of their time on the court practicing their | | | | opponent better). It also builds up your stamina to |
| shooting. | | | | awesome levels. |
| For whatever reason, this seems to hold true. I believe | | | | The beauty of this exercise is that you can spend |
| it's because of that that you don't see overly muscular | | | | fifteen minutes to a half an hour at the most and get a |
| high school basketball players. It's simply a matter of | | | | truly superb workout. Add a half hour or so every day |
| having enough hours in the day. | | | | in the weight room and you'll be well on your way to |
| This trade off can be tricky. You don't want to spend | | | | taking care of the body part of your workout schedule. |
| so much time working on your body that you neglect | | | | Plus you can vary this exercise easily. Find it starting to |
| your shooting skills. On the other hand, if you spend all | | | | become too easy? Just run up the stairs faster. It's as |
| your time on your shooting skills, you may not have | | | | easy as that. |
| enough physical strength to hold your own out there | | | | This is a very efficient workout that has tons of |
| on the basketball court. It's a tricky tradeoff! | | | | benefits that will directly translate to superiority on the |
| In economics they even have a term for it....ready? | | | | basketball court. I suggest fifteen minutes to half an |
| Tradeoff. Um, ok, so I already mentioned that term. But | | | | hour of stair climbing five days a week. Be sure to find |
| it's important. How you handle that tradeoff can be | | | | long staircases. Stairs with only five stairs in them |
| vitally important! | | | | won't cut it here. I'm talking about stadium sized |
| I have part of a solution. Ideally, you want to spend as | | | | staircases with fifteen to twenty stairs or more. |
| much of your time on the court as you can practicing | | | | Do this and you can't go wrong! |
| your shot. But you can't neglect your body. | | | | |