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Alan Stein gives us a look into a pre-practice warm up at Nike Elite DeMatha Catholic High School. It involves multi-planer skips, jumps, and reaches as well as dynamic flexibility. The entire routine takes exactly 10 minutes.

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Here are a variety of jumping drills Alan Stein uses with his players on a weekly basis. These drills improve explosiveness as well as reinforce proper landing mechanics.

The heights of the boxes are 12″, 18″, and 24″… for a total of 54″ when stacked together!

NOTE: this video is not an actual workout, but clips of all of the different types of box jumps they do (they only use a handful of each of these drills each workout and do multiple sets/reps).

Watching the video below reminded me of my college days of pre-season strength training. This video is obviously of boys. Do high school girl’s programs focus on strength training like the video below????

Stronger Team’s Blair O’Donovan enters his 5th season as the strength & conditioning coach for the Gonzaga High School basketball program (Washington, DC). Here is one of their pre-season strength workouts.

You may begin to see posts on Alan Stein on a regular basis because I am really beginning to dig him. We are similar in some ways and it is refreshing to see that from an individual involved in basketball.

I first realized how much we were alike when I read this in one of his blog posts.

….I read a dozen books on leadership and watched numerous DVDs and YouTube clips on performance enhancement. I combed through notebooks of my own notes and took time to reflect and evaluate my entire program. Most importantly, I developed my plan for this coming pre-season.

I thought I was weird that I read self development books on leadership, team work, etc. And I have a library of basketball DVDs. You know I’m on youtube looking at basketball clips. You may not know that I’m always planning for my upcoming training sessions and future events..

So, long story short..I am a fan of Alan Stein.

Here is a nice piece he wrote on his blog about Success:

Success.

People put too much energy in the wanting part. All they do is sit around wishing, dreaming, and hoping for success.

Instead, they need to put their energy into deserving success. They need to put their focus into earning success. They have to put on their hard hat, roll up their sleeves, and work for success.

Don’t get it twisted… there is nothing wrong with having dreams. You should have dreams!

But unless you actively pursue those dreams with effort, determination, and persistence … they are meaningless.

Do you want to make the varsity team this year? Do you deserve to?

Do you want to win a championship? Do you deserve to?

Do you want to play basketball at the next level? Do you deserve to?

Elite level players and championship caliber programs know the difference between wanting and deserving success. Your pre-season program is when you make that distinction. Are you doing everything in your power to deserve success once the season starts?

I was back in the gym this past Saturday hosting a mini-camp. It felt good getting back in the gym and working with the players. We missed the past 2 weeks because of activities at the facility.

I started the training off with the following motivational quote.

“I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.”
-Les Brown

I normally have a couple of the players tell me what it means to them, however, today I told them that I would email the quote to them and that I would like for them to email me what it means to them. I’m anxious to see what responses I get.

The theme of the training has been pre-season conditioning. I have this theme because we are getting close to the fall season so I have the young ladies do more full court drills.

I started them with four stations focusing on shooting, free throws, two ball ball handling and agility with sprints. They did some full court zig zag defensive slides. Then we focused on one-on-one defense and ball protection while someone is guarding you.

After that we worked on left and right hand layups, cross over into layups and pull up jumpers. We ended with knock out game with them shooting from the wing areas.

Unfortunately, I will not host another mini-camp over the next 3 weeks.
This Saturday the facility is closed. On September 25, I will be speaking a an EYH Conference at the University of Memphis. And on October 2, I will be hosting my annual Pre-Season Show Off Camp.

Hello Friends of the Internet Capital of Girls Basketball.

I’ve decided to start writing about my experiences as a girls basketball trainer. Hopefully through my writings, you will learn more about me, my love of basketball, new basketball drills, basketball tips and more.

Today I really don’t have much to write about. I’m actually a little disappointed. I did not get to train or host my mini-camp last Saturday because their was an activity at the facility I train at. Then this Monday, I received a phone call that I will not get to train this upcoming Saturday because their is another activity.

So instead of having the players go through 2 weeks of no activity, I decided to create a workout for them to do on their own.

Here’s the workout:

Ball Handling:
Wrap ball around waist 20x
Change directions and wrap another 20x
Wrap Ball around head 20x
Change directions and wrap another 20x
Wrap Ball around knees 20x
Change direction and wrap another 20x

Dribbling
Left hand dribbling at knee level 25x
Break – count to 10
Right hand dribbling at knee level 25x
Break – count to 10
Left hand dribbling at waist level 25x
Break – count to 10
Right hand dribbling at waistlevel 25x
Break – count to 10
Left hand dribbling at shoulder level 25x
Break – count to 10
Right hand dribbling at shoulder level 25x
Break – count to 10

Shooting (popo25):
Start inside the paint and with a bank shot. If you make the shot, take a step back. If not, attempt to make another shot in the same spot. Work your way out and around the basket until you make 25 shots.

Free throws:
Make 10

Layups:
Work on the techniques of left and right hand layups.
Use left hand on left side and Right hand on right side.

Also, I recently added a Pre-Season Workout to the GirlsBasketballResources.com site. The emphasis is on conditioning through ball handling, defense and shooting drills. Get more information here.

Here are some drills for the coaches looking for variety during Pre-Season conditioning. Alan Stein, Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for DeMatha Catholic High School boys basketball program, offers a competitive way to condition your players.

Alan Stein’s notes about the drills in the video:

The first 3 drills were done at 50-60% of maximum effort as part of our warm-up. Everything after that was 100% and competitive! Races included: triangle agility with full court sprint, sprint vs. backpedal, center circle chase, inside-out full court gauntlet, and 3 cone lane drill.

The entire workout only lasted 30 minutes. When it comes to competing, we want to stress quality over quantity.

Amar’e Stoudemire is one of the most exciting Big Men in the NBA. This summer he held his Nike Skills Academy camp for high school and college centers.

There are some great drills in this video for centers or post players looking to add a move or two to your game.