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.

SLIDE DRILL

  • The player stands midway between two (imaginary) lines 6-7 meters apart.
  • The player assumes a defensive position with her knees bent, head up, and arms up.
  • The player slides back and forth and touches the lines with her feet, maing sure that her feet do not touch each other as she slides.
  • The player continues jumping in this manner for one minute, and repeats the drill 3-5 times.

1/1 2000

HEEL AND TOE TOUCH DRILL

  • The player stands with her feet apart, jumps upward, and alternates touching her toes and heels with her finger pads as she jumps.
  • The player continues jumping in this manner for thirty seconds, and repeats the drill 3-5 times.

1/1 2000

HEEL TOUCH DRILL

  • The player stands with her feet apart, jumps upward, and touches her heels with her finger pads as she jumps.
  • The player continues jumping in this manner for thirty seconds, and repeats the drill 3-5 times.

1/1 2000

TOE TOUCH DRILL

  • The player stands with her feet apart, jumps upward, and touches her shoes with her finger pads as she jumps.
  • The player continues jumping in this manner for thirty seconds, and repeats the drill 3-5 times.

1/1 2000

JUMPING DRILL

  • The player places her feet together and jumps on the balls of her feet, moving from left to right.
  • The player continues jumping in this fashion for thirty seconds, and repeats the drill 3-5 times.

1/1 2000

Zigzag/sprint/boardtaps

players start on baseline, we have 3 lines, they go length of court in zigzag, drop step defensive stance, arms spread wide, head up, when they hit far baseline they sprint to one of three baskets at the near end of the floor where a ball awaits under the hoop. We have a different number of taps each day (ball over head, tap board 7-10 times, then score on next leap) — ball never comes down below forehead while they are leaping/try not to bend knees too much so leaping is all with lower legs), then they rotate to different lines. On sprint back, all 3 sprint to foul line of main basket then branch off to side baskets. We have 2 weighted balls and we put them on side baskets to add a little stress.

1/1 2000

Venture Drill

This is an outstanding drill for player’s who want to work on speed, agility, and conditioning. This is a drill which coaches and players can implement all year.

1/1 2000

Vegas

Start at one side on the out-of-bounds line. Set clock for one minute or 30 seconds. Set number of times to go up and back. Example 1 minute=17, 30 seconds=9.

1/1 2000

Upper Arm Strengthening

This is to teach the proper form for a shot or an overhead pass to young girls.

1/1 2000

Two minute post passing

This is a full Court lay-up drill. Set four players on the court one on each of the elbows. Have the two one the right side of the court face one basket and have the two on the left side of the court face the other basket. Have the remaining players split up into two groups under each basket.

1/1 2000

Two ball drill

Place three players at each basket. One player is the shooter and stands in front of and facing the basket. The other two players are his rebounders and one stands on each side of the basket as if rebounding a foul shot..

Each rebounder has a ball and places the ball on the floor in front of him. This is a one minute drill. On the coaches signal, the shooter picks up a ball and shoots a layup. The player on that side rebounds and places the ball back on the floor as the shooter picks up the ball on the other side and shoots a layup from that side. The shooter continues for the full minute keeping count of shots made.

1/1 2000

Turn About

This drill is used to build up conditioning for a game while making the players practice different fundamentals.

1/1 2000

Three Down Shooting

This drill can be used anytime during practice. We use it at the end of a practice as a shooting and conditioning drill.
The drill begins with 3 players on each baseline and three players at the half court line. The players on the end lines each have a basketball. On the coach’s whistle the players at half court sprint toward one baseline. When they reach the three point arc they call for the ball. The player on the endline makes a good chest or bounce pass to the player opposite her. The player receiving the ball can pull up for a three point shot or move to the basket for a layup or a fifteen foot jump shot.
The player who passes the ball sprints down court and receives a pass at the opposite three point arc. The drill continues for one minute. The object is to score a certain number of points which are predetermined by the coach. If enough points are scored then the drill can end.

Scoring is determined by the following:
3 points if basket is made from outside the 3 point arc.
2 points if made from three point line in to the broken circle area.
1 point if made from broken circle to backboard (lay-up)

Our goal is usually 60+ points in a minute.

The players will like this drill because it is competitive. they don’t mind the running because they are concentrating on the pass and shot.

Note: The shooter must rebound her own shot and then get to the baseline and be ready to pass to the next shooter who will be coming down the court.

1/1 2000

The Birch

This drill really works on the player’s endurance and speed and helps to show you the players that really are willing to work and the ones who are not.

1/1 2000

Tea Shuffle

It is a shuffle that helps the defense get in shape, and also get use to the defensive shuffle.

1/1 2000

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