Your ankles are largely responsible for a person’s ability to perform all movements that are necessary for basketball. Having to constantly change direction and cut back a forth puts great strain on your ankles. Weak ankles force other parts of the body like your knees and back to ompensate, placing them under undue stress. Having strong ankles will not only prevent ankle injuries, but knee and back injuries as well.
The Importance of Ankle Strengthening Exercises
They Said it Couldn’t Be Done…
For the first time ever, Elite Basketball Training will be teaming up with K & R Basketball to produce the area’s most dynamic basketball clinics. The clinics will include extensive fundamental basketball training and coaching which will develop and enhance each player’s skills in the sport.
Recruiting Tip of the Month…Be Prepared
Many boys and girls have aspirations of playing at the college level but not all of them put in the time and effort to get there. Being able to play college basketball is the first step you as a player need to take in order to be able to do so. Get in the gym everyday and work on your skills. Hit the weightroom to gain size, speed, and strength. If you are usure how, have a look around the site for drills and information on what you need to do to become an Elite basketball player.
The Real Functional Training
Basketball players should always be looking for new, innovative, and effective ways to train our bodies. Their training should be functional or focus on improving strength as it relates to their sport. Strongman training is an increasingly popular form of functional training. This is a direct result of these exercise’s ability to increase speed and explosive power through strength gains in the posterior chain and the core.
The Real Suicides
How many times have you either as a coach made your players run suicides or as a player had to run suicides? Probably too many times to count. Suicides are an effective way of getting in getting in shape and in this video I have taken suicides to the next level. Take a look a see how intense this set of suicides is.
