Having a like minded individual to work out with will eliminate the days when you just do not feel like working out.  Each of you can ensure that this never happens by motivating each other from the start.  Once you are at the basketball court or weight room working out, having a training partner will completely change the dynamic of the workouts.  They will be competitive and challenging as you and your partner push each other mentally and physically to make more jump shots, lift heavier weights, run the extra sprints.   This will ultimately make you a much better basketball player and athlete.  Beyond the obvious physical and mental benefits of training with a partner, the workouts will just simply be more FUN.  Having one of your good friends around to train with will make the workouts less like work and more like another way to hang out.  The workouts will be encouraging for all of you and bring you all closer together, knowing that you pushed each other to give your very best during each and every workout. 

With this in mind, Elite Basketball Training and its sports performance training branch, Elite Sports Performance in accordance with the New Jersey Sports Academy will be hosting Bring-A-Friend week during the week of June 13-18.  All participants in any of the Elite Basketball Training and/or Elite Sports Performance programs are encouraged to bring a friend to any of our workouts.  The friend will be able to work out with the group for the hour for FREE and then can earn a discounted rate to any of our programs if they sign up that day.  As a show of appreciation to our loyal customers who bring a friend to the workouts, they will also receive a discount to a future program if their friend signs up.  There will be vendors and contests throughout the week including our athlete of the month sponsor, Muscle Maker Grill of Edison who will be there Thursday evening handing out free samples of their delicious and healthy food.

So how could you possibly say no to Bring-A-Friend week or training with a partner. I encourage you all to go out and invite a friend to work out with you and I guarantee it will help make your workouts competitive, challenging, and fun while making your game Elite.

See you on the court!

Rich Stoner, USAW

Elite Basketball Training, LLC

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 The clip below is flat out awesome as it touches upon whether or not second place is no big deal. 

Is second place a big deal for you?  If not, keep sitting around watching clips on youtube.  If it is, then use those clips to go out, and bust your tail in order to make sure that you do NOT end up in second place.

Do you have any clips or quotes that fire you up for a game?  If so, share them with the Elite Basketball Training community in the comments section below.  Thanks.

See you on the court!

Rich Stoner

Elite Basketball Training, LLC

There is also a new testimonial below from one of my most recent trainees, Kevyn Douyon who is a starting guard at Bishop Ahr High School in Edison, New Jersey. 

The Star Agility Drill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_oQ35ySpLc

Sports Performance Training: http://www.youtube.com/user/elitebasketball?feature=mhum#p/a/u/1/16JPNwHbak0

Box Agility Drill: http://www.youtube.com/user/elitebasketball?feature=mhum#p/u/3/F18OSmX5eRg

Coach Stoner -
 
We would be remiss if we did not take the time to THANK YOU for the time you spent with Kevyn during the last few months during the Elite Basketball Bootcamp. During that time Kevyn has seen and felt tremendous results from your training sessions. If you recall at the start of these sessions we identified all of the areas of his training that would be targeted to specific aspects of “his game” on the court. Suffice it to say, the training has exceeded all of the objectives we identified at the start of the training. The results are evident in his play – he is quicker, more explosive, and stronger. The overall training has help him elevate his game and prepared him for the rigors of varsity high school basketball. In addition to the positive results you can see, the training has made him more confident both on and off the court. He did not miss a single session and enjoyed every minute of the training. He is definitely looking forward to starting the next session with you in the spring immediately after the end of the basketball session.
 
Thanks again and looking forward to working with you again very, very, soon!!!

Hope that you enjoyed the videos and let me know what you think in the comments section below. 

See you on the court!

Rich Stoner

Elite Basketball Training, LLC

Purpose of the Drill:

The purpose of this drill is to build up a player’s speed endurance using movements from the game of basketball.

Instructions:

• The player should sprint to the foul line and perform three defensive slides steps back in one direction.
• Then sprint to the half court line and perform three defensive slide drills back in the opposite direction.
• Then sprint to the opposite foul line and perform three defensive slides back in the same direction as the first foul line.
• Then sprint to the opposite baseline and perform three defensive slides back in the same direction used at half court.
• Repeat for three to five rounds.

Points of Emphasis:

• Staying low on your defensive slide.
• Change directions from your sprint into your slide and back into your sprint quickly.
• Stay low and balanced when changing directions and movements. This will allow for a more explosive transition out of each movement and into the next.
  

Motivation/Teaching Tips:

Time the drill.

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Train hard, be efficient and I will see you at The Fields.

Anyway the real point of this post is not to tell you about my lowrider Nissan Pathfinder and its once crappy tires, it is to tell you how you can get in a great workout with very little equipment.  It is frustrating when players tell me that they cannot workout because they have no ride to the gym.  That is an EXCUSE.  You really do not need a gym to get a solid workout.  For example yesterday, my guys did the following:

Sandbag Shouldering (similar to a deadlift) 3 x 6

Dumbell Jump Squats (Can be done with body weight) 3 x 6

Split Squats 3 x 6 with Pullups for max effort

Overhead medball throws 3 x 6 with max effort pushups

Prowler finisher 

Two rounds of planks and side bridges each held for 30 seconds.

ALL AT THE PARK!

Now I know you are probably thinking, “Rich I don’t have all of that equipment.”  This is fine, but much of what I wrote down can be done with bodyweight.  Not to mention,  a sandbag

costs about $20 to make,  You can pick up dumbells on Craig’s List (btw who is Craig?) for next to nothing, and instead of a prowler, throw that sandbag in an old tire and push that around.  All you need is a little imagination and some creativity and you could be getting killer workouts anywhere you want. 

If you have any other rustic, old school training techniques please share them with the Elite Basketball Training community, we would love to hear from you all out there.  In th mean time, train hard, be efficient, and I will see you on the court.

Rich Stoner

In addition to the Skills and Drills Clinics, Elite Basketball Training will be expanding on its successful Half Day Hoops Series from last fall.  In its preliminary year, the Half Day Hoops Fest was run over the course of two days with great success as many parents liked the opportunity for their son or daughter to work on their basketball skills on their days off from school.  This year, we are giving them even more opportunities to do so as the Half Day Hoops Series has been expanded from two sessions last fall to include five sessions this fall.  Each session runs for three hours and if you sign up for all five sessions you can get in at the low cost of $150.  That’s only $10 per hour!  To register please click here ==> HALF DAY HOOPS SERIES.

Last but certainly not least, Elite Basketball Training is running its first ever fall session of the widely popular Elite Basketball Bootcamp.  Basketball training is not always about skill development and the Elite Basketball Bootcamp is a great way to increase your strength, speed, agility, vertical jump, and conditioning on the basketball court.  As parents and players have become more aware of this, this summer’s Elite Basketball Bootcamp saw its enrollment increase to four times the amount it was last year.  These workouts are intense, use alternative training methods, and are geared toward basketball players that are serious about taking their game to a whole new level.  Equally as exciting, this fall the Elite Basketball Bootcamp will run for an extra week and will be held indoors at The Sports Zone Fitness Center in Edison.  For more information and a registration form click here ==> Elite Basketball Bootcamp. 

As always, I keep the number of players attending my clinics low to ensure that those attending receive as much individualized attention as possible.  So don’t miss the opportunity to work on your basketball skills, strength, and speed this fall.  SIGN UP NOW so that you can become an ELITE BASKETBALL PLAYER. 

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The Elite Basketball Bootcamp is in full swing and the athletes are really starting to see the benefits of the hardcore training. With the workouts being outdoors and no weights available, we are hitting it hard with body weight training, sand bags, kettlebells, speed and agility, and plyometrics. Not to mention the intense finishers and core training that we close each session off with. The Elite Basketball Bootcamp workouts are geared toward basketball players that are serious about taking their game to the next level. The kind of player that wants to be more explosive and get stronger. The type of player that wants to jump higher and react quicker. The type of player that is mentally focussed on pushing their body to the limit and then going even further.

Are you that type of player? If so, then The Elite Basketball Bootcamp is definitely for you! Check out the video below to find out what the Elite Basketball Bootcamp is all about. If you like it, contact me to schedule an appointment for your FREE Basketball Bootcamp workout, and take advantage of this before the fall session starts on September 7th. If you are already convinced, then you can register by clicking here: ELITE BASKETBALL BOOTCAMP and sending in the registration form. Hope to see you all there pushing your bodies to the limit and taking your game to the next level.

In order to guage these categories, we started off on Tuesday with some simple baseline testing to determine where these athletes were at.  I cannot stress enough how important testing is for anyone beginning a strength and conditioning program.  It helps an athlete and a coach determine where they are, where they want to go, and how they are going to get there.  On Tuesday we tested many facets that are important to the game of basketball including speed, agility without a change of movement, agility with a change of movement, strength, and vertical jump.  All of the athletes’ times, repetitions, and heights were recorded so that they can be compared to when we test again at the end of the bootcamp.

Some of the scores for the tests were really good and I cannot wait to see how far they can go by pushing there bodies to the limits this summer.  Today is our first true workout and it is going to be a tough one, but with the positive energy that was displayed on Tuesday and the willingness to work hard, there is no doubt they will get through it.

If you are interested in signing up for The Elite Basketball Bootcamp, there is still time.  Simply go to Elite Basketball Bootcamp and return the printable brochure to me.