Conditioning

Basketball requires all around conditioning; stamina, strength, speed, jumping ability and more. These drills show you how to improve in all those areas.

There are 144 basketball drills in this category, and the newest ones are listed first.

Full Court Tips

Works great.

4/3 2009

Hour glass

A sprinting and defensive sliding drill that will burn and get your team into shape.

14/12 2008

Ladders

It’s is a good drill for conditioning.

3/12 2008

Sixteens

Running, but not really a lot.

3/12 2008

Suicide (really hard)

Used to help players improve skills.

3/12 2008

8-8-18

Start with 8 suicides, this should be done in 8 min. When the 1st player gets done, start the clock for 2 min. When the last player gets done, start the next drill. If the 2 min. is up, this makes every player to run hard.

Start at one corner of the gym, have the best player lead this drill. Tell players to start running, each player must get back to the coach in 10 sec. Run around the gym, jog around to coach, sprint jog, sprint, jog, total of 8 times around gym, every time your best player runs past a player 4 times that player will run after practice. This again should be done in 8 min. First player done start the time at 2 min. Start the next drill after the 2 min.

Last drill is the 18 which is 18 laps around the gym, again have your best condition player to start the drill. If he or she passes a player 5 times that player will run extra laps.

19/11 2008

3-5-7

One of those drills that pushes you to your limit.

19/11 2008

Deep 6

You have 35 seconds to make it down and back 6 times.

19/11 2008

Really tough run-around

This will make a hell of a runner out of you…Or it will kill you.

19/11 2008

Killer rats

Have your kids run rats but at every line they stop and do 10 push-ups.

17/11 2008

51 drill

The object of this drill is strictly for conditioning purposes. It involves high intensity sprints.

12/11 2008

Hops

A drill that really helps speed and jumping.

11/11 2008

Shoot then block out

It is used to help players to shoot under pressure and blocking out.

11/11 2008

Fast break

Drill to help get in shape and to help with fast breaks.

11/11 2008

Enfuego

After each practice, have one player at a time start at the baseline and be timed on how many times they can run back and forth from baseline to baseline in one minute. I.e. one is from one baseline to the other and then coming back would be the second one.

15/1 2008

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