With basketball season well underway, I decided to do some research and take a look at how last summer’s basketball bootcamp survivors were faring in their seasons. This group of guys committed two days a week for the majority of the summer to the intense basketball specific strength, speed, and conditioning workouts that the bootcamp provided and the results were evident as each one of the guys that attended is having success at their respective schools.

As I have mentioned before, the game of basketball requires so many skills. Successful basketball players must be able to pass, dribble, shoot, and finish. They must also have strength, power, speed, agility, and endurance. All of these attributes are skills that can and must be incoporated into a player’s basketball training regimen. Upon first look, all of this really seems like a lot. However, if you get creative and combine some of the skills into the same drills you can cut down on training time and make the workout much more basketball specific.

One way to combine skills is to incorporate the agility ladder into your workouts with the basketball.

Yesterday’s Elite Basketball Skills and Drills Clinics at The Salvation Army Gym in Red Bank, was my first venture back into the area that I grew up in, and boy was it exciting! Thanks to local shooting instructor, Scott Byrne,