At what point in the training year, do you stop running sprints and have all your running basketball-specific whether it be games or practice sessions? Or is there always at least some form of sprint/acceleration training going on?
Also, what types of sprints are best suited for a basketball player? Thanks.
basketball-specific running would be either walking, or a slow jog. Sprints for Bball should be around the 10-20m mark. Get the Medicine ball DVD or the GPP DVD for some explosive meb ball stuff that will help out.
I guess I meant basketball specific running to be doing some type of sprints with a basketball.
ahm
We have our athletes sprint in varying intervals throughout the pre-season. None of this work is done with a basketball; in fact (at the college level) we can’t use a basketball during these sessions!
Once practice has officially started, we do very little formal sprinting run by our S&C staff; practice tempo is kept high, and many times additonal sprinting at that point would serve little use to the athletes - other than getting them to hate us even more!
I’d always keep sprints in. Try fitting them in before practices.
Short accelerations would be best (out to 40m).