Complete Conditioning for Basketball [With DVD]

Complete Conditioning for Basketball presents the ultimate in training for the sport from the National Basketball Conditioning Coaches Association, the experts who work daily to maximize the performance potential of the game's top stars. Build your strength and power to be a beast on the boards. Improve your quickness and agility to be a defensive stopper. Increase your vertical jump to rise over defenders for uncontested shots. With over 200 exercises, drills, performance tests, and workouts, plus a 60-minute instructional DVD, Complete Conditioning for Basketball is the most comprehensive training resource for men and women at all levels of competition. Get the most out of your workouts and add new dimensions to your game. Complete Conditioning for Basketball will help you to fulfill your potential and make the most of every opportunity on the court.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0736057846
• ISBN13: 9780736057844
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Awesome

This book is awesome. The drills and workouts are all illustrated and straightforward. The DVD is great too if you're like me and haven't done much drill or lifting before. The beginning of the book also has a bunch of stats on players from high school all the way through the NBA Draft, so you can compare your results to somehting tangible to get a fell for where you're at.

Reading this Book/DVD

This book provides good inside looks for specific conditioning methods of basketball. It's detailed and the DVD is a great help to understand the correct execution, though not all excercises in the book are shown on the DVD. This Source of Basketball Conditioning includes all the important factors of the ball game as warm up, conditioning, strength, power, speed and agility. It also provides a guideline how to handle this methods in practice and includes a whole season conditioning schedule with lots of schedules and tables. As you are probably interested of the benefitial side of the book, you may ask the question: "Does the book help myself beeing a better coach/player? Is it possible to include the provided information into my practices?" As i read the whole book and worked some stuff out of it, i can recommend it as a must for all ambitious coaches at all levels (Youth, Pros), though keep in mind that it is always great to have different sources on the same topic on your book shelve, so you can make up your mind and create youre own style of conditioning methods. BUT: As you have developed your style, this book may be the one you put on your everyday usage shelve. As i recommend this great source there are some restrictions for the usage. First, a little part of the strenght excercises do not seem to be healthy especially for youth players with weak back muscles. (Don't be irritated, the books excercises are made by specialists) Second, there are some facility limitations. To get the best out of this book, well you need access of a basketball court including a seperate gym for the strength/power exercising. Some excercises indlude agility leaders, swiss balls etc. Be aware that the very useful drills include this facility inventory. Third, for basketball coaches be aware that conditioning is at best when it starts at preseason. So the time factor is a great deal, if you have a stable team and good organization you can get more out of this book than with youth teams, who meet themselves and start practicing 2 weeks in front of the first game. Hope this quick feedback helps you out there to evaluate the use of this book for yourself! Take care, Alexander Wermuth

Good book for advanced athletes and advanced high school players

This is a very sound book and I learned some great ideas. I am not an expert in strength and conditioning but over the years have had to learn enough to do a decent job of conditioning my teams. This book has TONS of information and ideas on how to specifically condition basketball players. For basketball coaches, who are not strength coaches, this is a great resource. My only reservation about this book is that a lot of the material suggested, and again this is my non-expert opinion, works best for athletes who are already at a reasonably advanced level of conditioning, juniors and seniors in high school who have been through a conditioning program for several years, college players and professional players. Still, it is a book on my coaching book shelf and it has been really worth having. Kevin Sivils - author of Game Strategies and Tactics for Basketball: Bench Coaching for Success

All i basketball needs

Came in good conditoin and actually with the DVD this time which other sellers didnt send last time. GOOD WORK!!!

Okay for High School, Good for college, Great for pro's

This book really goes in depth on what kind of workout is needed to be successful on the basketball court. Examples of each exercise, workout plans, and a DVD to show all important demonstrations make this book a great purchase. It will give high school coaches great ideas, college coaches a detailed plan. A great add on to any coaches collection.