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.

Bust it

A great way to learn how to play while being winded.

15/1 2008

Front, front, back, back

The front, front, back, back makes your arms and legs move quicker.

9/1 2008

Conditioning Strength Line

Helps arm strength and conditioning.

9/1 2008

Full Court One on One

Play a game with all the real rules just one on one calling your fouls. Each player gets 2 fouls per Qtr. Then the opponent shoots two foul shots whether its a shooting foul or not. First to 25 points ends the 1st Qtr. First to 50 2nd Qtr. First to 75 3rd Qtr. First to 100 win by two. 1 time out per half per player. Use it wisely.

3/1 2008

The Mountain

Really helps your players to come out of breath.

14/12 2007

Cements

Very hard, you will be in shape in a couple of weeks if you do a few reps every day.

12/12 2007

55 seconds

this drill will help with your endurance you have to run 11 full court length laps in 55 seconds.

12/12 2007

Suicide

Running.

12/12 2007

Yogi

This is a great drill to build stamina and leg muscles.

6/12 2007

Loose ball dive

Teaches you to dive onto the floor and discipline.

5/12 2007

The Defensive Crouch

A drill that helps build your Quads and your Hamstrings, but it hurts like HELL after a while. We had to do this drill in basketball conditioning at school.

3/12 2007

Sweet 16

Running sprints for time (can be used with dribbling a ball).

3/12 2007

Footfire/Sprint/Bunnyhops

End of practice routine.

27/11 2004

6 inches

Lay on the floor and put your hands under your head, and lift your feet about 6 inches and try not to drop your feet stay like that untill your coach say stop.

22/11 2004

100 mile per hour drill

A perfect way to work out your legs and to work on throwing accuracy for the season.

17/11 2004

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