Conditioning, Strength and Speed Resources

Your basketball playbook and plans must contain a conditioning, strength and speed program, not only for use just prior to your season, but year round. Players should not play basketball to get in shape, but rather should get in shape to play basketball.

Complete Basketball Strength and Speed
Program - from HoopsU
This ebook by coach Tony Alfonso, owner of HoopsU, will help your players' conditioning, strength and speed. Learn to improve your strength and speed specific to basketball with this year-round basketball workout program. Coach Alfonso explains the methods that he has used to train several state high school championship teams and college recruits.

Full with insights, descriptions, techniques, and more, this comprehensive book offers the fundamentals and tactics for incorporating an effective strength and speed program into your overall basketball training. Not only will you find great ideas, drills, and exercises to help you improve, but this book is also a year-round basketball training program that is fully complete...sets and reps are already determined for each training phase. It is completely ready-to-go -- you do not need to put anything together yourself! The workout forms and testing charts help you understand how you are progressing so you can effectively achieve your goals. Through Coach Alfonso's experience and guidance, you will learn how to successfully implement a strength and speed program for yourself or your team.

"The Complete Basketball Strength & Speed Program" will show you how to improve your athletic ability that positively correlates to improvement on the basketball court.

Complete Conditioning for Basketball by Greg Brittenham, Patrick Ewing. Basketball conditioning program, exercises, drills, etc.

101 Strength and Conditioning Exercises & Drills for Basketball by Thomas Emma. Booklet containing all the conditioning and training exercises and drills that coaches need. Emma was a three-year basketball starter (captain his senior year) at Duke University, was later drafted by the Chicago Bulls, and has a Masters degree (Columbia University) specialized in this area, and has written several other books as well.