How to Get Ready for Basketball Season

Requirements: you have to be somewhat fit, and some time ( one to two weeks ), and a gym would be helpfull but is not needed, and about two hours a day.

Ok, so this is basically what you should do each day for one to two weeks, and chances are you will probably make the basketball team, you are aiming for.

1) Start eating healthier, not only will this help you when your trying out for the team, but it will also help you when you are training, for instance: less cramps, more energy, feel better about yourself, also you just feel overall better when you eat healthier, so it doesn’t just apply to basketball training.

2) if you can get to a gym, go there every single day prior and while playing basketball for about fifteen to thirty minutes. Don’t do five bench presses on the highest you can do, but instead do thirty or fourty on a weight that you can manage to get up ten time without rest, but it still leaves you tired after. Wait thirty seconds between reps or 10, and either do three or four reps. Then, go over to the chinup bar and do two sets of ten chinups, with a thirty second rest inbetween. Lastly, go to a spot ( doesn’t have to be in a gym ) and do thirty crunches, slow and steady ( seriously, you get more out of ten good crunches than fifty fake crunches that only work your neck ), and do three sets of those. Then, do scissor kicks twise for thirty seconds each time, with a thirty second rest inbetween. This should put you in a great physical state, the last thing is indurance. Take about ten to fifteen minutes to take a medium jog of a mile and a half, or something close to that. This should probably take a half and hour to fourty five minutes.

3) Basketball, this is probably going to be the most fun of the steps, because you probably like basketball if you’r going out for the team, and if you don’t like it you should NOT go out for the team.

         1) do twenty right handed layups, then twenty left handed layups, then twenty reverse left sided layups and finally twenty reverse right sided layups.

        2) take ten foul shots and set the amount that your going to make at five at first, and then eventually pump it up to seven or eight. Each time that you do NOT reach the number of foul shots in that you set, run a suicide, this helped ALOT for me because i hate suicides. ( coaches love it when you can make foulshots )
          

        3) take some threes just for practice, no set limit, and eventaully your three percentage will get higher.

        4) work on your dribbling, each day spend a good fifteen minutes working on something else, ball handling stlye. For instance ( day 1 ) spend fifteen minutes walking up and down the court dribbling the ball between your legs, ( day 2 ) dribble the ball behind your back for fifteen minutes, ( day 3 ) dribble left handed ( if your right handed ) and dribble right handed ( if your left handed ). Do this repeatidly and YOU WILL GET A MUCH HIGHER CHANCE OF MAKING YOUR TEAM. Eventually spise things up and mix all the things you’ve been practicing and put them together as you practice.

      5) THE MOST IMPORTANT: find pick-up games, nothing prepares you better for basketball than actually playing basketball

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