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Power Systems Complete Conditioning for Basketball

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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

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.

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

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.

This book is very complete; has excellent drills, fitness tests, power, strength, speed and agility workouts. Everything I thought "Basketball Training: For the Athlete, by the Athlete" would be, but is not.

This is the book to buy for great workouts to improve your basketball skills.

I am a Varsity basketball coach and am always looking for good drills. It's only 4 days in to the season and I have used this book over and over and over. The girls are tired and saying how much conditioning they are getting in each drill. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for some drills that make the players run, shuffle, and condition.

It provides good information on all all aspects necessary to get your body into basketball condition. Gives you the exercises and when to do them according to what season it is. Easy to read. Great Book.

Very good info on what scouts evaluate on. Charts of data on how other recruited athletes rank is info that is very valuable and I have no idea where else I would find this data. It provides data on how well recruited athletes performed in each of the physical tests described in the book. You will know very quickly if you are close, and if not, what you need to improve on. If you're serious about basketball, get this book sooner rather than later.

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 drilling 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 and get a feel for where you're at.

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

GOOD WORK!!!