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

Arrow Drill

This is a drill which will help when you want to press. It reminds players through repetion to keep their chests pointed at their own basket. And how to retreat then attack properly.

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Banana Loop Drill

Line players up at a 1 corner of the court. Players get in good defensive stance and they shuffle their feet until the coaches whistle (approximately 5 seconds). At the whistle, player opens up to the court by overexaggerating the throwing of the elbow.
The next step is for the players to take a wide cross-over step and follow with a quick rounded step. After this, the player ‘Loops’ (like a 1/2 moon shape) to the 28’foot line (The old time line).
It is important to stress that the players do NOT take a 45 degree angle to the time line. They must ‘Loop’ and recover by going beyond the 28’line to a Defensive Slide into the baseline.

The drill goes from baseline corner to 28’line to opposite 28’line
to opposite baseline corner.

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Big Box

This is a running drill meant to be run very hard. You can time them and make it a competition out of it.

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Caterpillar Dribble Weave

2 Balls. Line players in single file along sideline, one ball at front and one at the back. This drill is good for warm-ups.

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Get-it

line players up in two lines starting at the elbows going towards the baseline

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KU Full Court Shooting

This is a great warm-up drill that I picked up at a Kansas Univeristy practice. Players will run full court lay-ups and jump shots at the same time.

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Kentucky Lay-ups

This drill is set up for fun conditioning and a challenge to make as many baskets in the time limit you decide.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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