Power Systems Complete Conditioning for Basketball

by Power Systems

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Build your strength and power to be a beast on the boards with the Complete Conditioning for Basketball book and DVD video . Improve your quickness and agility to be a defensive stopper. Increase your vertical jump to rise over defenders for uncontested s

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• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.1 x 0.6 inches ; 1.1 pounds
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• ASIN: 0736057846
• Item model number: 5977
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,204 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Reading this Book/DVD, January 17, 2010

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Alexander Wermuth "Coach Wermuth" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Power Systems Complete Conditioning for Basketball (Sports)

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

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm very glad I bought this book., July 15, 2011

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A. Matveev (Sharon, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book to help my son in his high school basketball. (his physical condition was the main concern.)
I found everything I needed in this book. There are exercises and schedules for every aspect of conditioning:
- Basic conditioning,
- Agility exercises,
- Speed training
- Plyometrics for power (super !)
- and weight lifting
In addition to this there is a table with results of basic basketball tests for different ages and skill levels (high school, college, and NBA basketball). It gives you huge motivation boost to see what other people can do. These tests are 3/4 court sprints, vertical jump, lane agility test and others.
I'm very glad I bought this book. It helped us tremendously.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book for advanced athletes and advanced high school players, December 5, 2009

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Kevin Sivils - KCS Basketball Enterprises (Katy, TX) - See all my reviews

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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