This Is How Your Basketball Workouts Should Look - Basketball Tips

I got a lot of questions about kind of what I was talking about in terms of your schedule and everything and how you should actually structure your workouts. Last week we talked about how you don't have to be LeBron, you don't have to be great at everything right away, at least you want to make sure that you become great at at least a couple things so that you have skills that could translate onto the court right away. So you can know if you get onto the court, you can do a couple things at a high level. And regardless of where you're playing, who you're playing against, you're going to have a role that you can fill because you're able to do that. So I want to clarify a little bit on what that means. I got a lot of questions about it. So you should pick a few skills that you want to become great at. So might be shooting, ball handling, finishing. We'll say, we'll say those are your skills you want to choose, but what you don't want to do is you don't want to take an all or nothing approach to it. I think a lot of you guys are really overthinking it a little bit too much. A lot of guys are coming at me asking like, oh, should I do this? This week just shooting and next week just ball handling. And you know, we'll kind of hop in into a little bit of why I don't recommend you do that. But, you know, essentially all that you have to do is you just want your training to focus on those skills, but you still want to have game like aspects to it. Okay, so if you look at like my NBA player workouts, for example, that's a great example of, you know, what it takes to actually. Or what I mean by making sure that your workouts are focus on something but also game specific. Right. And all those NBA player workouts, we're usually focusing on, on a, you know, a few skills that that player is known for. Right. But we're translating those into game like movements, game like situations where you're gonna have to combine a bunch of different skills. Okay. And you know, your training should be that way too. You know, it can be game like while still focusing on some specific skills. Okay. So you know, for example, Monday might be ball handling mixed in with some, you know, game like moves, right. So with like some general moves that simulate, you know, game actions, something like that. Okay. So you might have, you know, you might work on your ball handling, doing maybe some stationary stuff. Then you translate into working on, you Know your between the leg crossover at a different game situations, maybe going into a shot off that, into a step back, into attacking the rim, into whatever you want it to be a spin move. Maybe you just want to take what you're doing and make it game like that might be Monday, Tuesday might be shooting with some ball handling. You might get a lot of spot shots up, some game situation shots mixed in with some ball handling stuff that could be your workout. So now again you're working on multiple skills, but those are still those, those a couple of those skills that you want to become great at. Okay, and then Wednesday could be similar to that. Maybe it's more ball handling with some more shooting and then a couple of dribble moves added into that to kind of combine the two of those things. Okay. So again, you want to be creative with how you approach it. And you know, in the perimeter score system, that's kind of what we do. Where we have some workouts that are more broadly focused. Where we're going to have, you're going to start off, you're going to go into some, you know, basically essentially be like a structure. Could be you'll go into your dynamic warmup, then you'll go into form shooting, then we might go into some light ball handling, then we might do some light finishing, then we might go with a lot of game shooting. Okay, that might be the workout. But then the next day you might have a workout where we're going to go dynamic warmup, form shooting, you might have a little bit of light shooting. And then we might go into working strictly on some sort of dribble move. So maybe that's. We're just working on the jab step that day and options out of the jab step, working on the double jab maybe or working on inverted drag, whatever, but we're going to translate that stuff into game situations. So you're building those game like moves that you can actually use while still developing your ability to handle the basketball, to shoot and to finish. Okay, so we're working on all three of those things, but we're doing it in the context of an actual game situation so that it actually translates for you. So as we progress forward, we're going to continue to kind of ramp up the focus and obviously as you move through it, you should be getting better. So that's what I also say is if you're going to plan out your workouts, you know, make them gradually harder, make them gradually a little bit more detailed as you start to master some of these simple Moves. So, you know, obviously I recommend you guys check out the perimeter score system. But if you are just want to do your own thing, that's how I recommend you would structure whatever sort of program you're going to do is make sure that you have those skills you want to work on, but make sure you design it in a way that you can actually start to work on those skills in a game situation, sort of setting. That's how you're gonna see the most results when it comes to actually you in games. And you know, I wouldn't recommend doing a week on, week off thing. There was a question that I got where, you know, guys were asking me, hey, should I do ball handling this week and then shooting next week and then finishing the week after that? No, like I wouldn't recommend doing that. And that's just because, you know, look, at the end of the day, a big mistake players make is that they just do drills that are gonna get them better at doing drills. Like they aren't doing drills that are actually gonna get them better at playing basketball like in a game. And basically all that means is that your drills, the stuff you're doing, should actually have some sort of way that it's gonna translate into the games. Okay? When you're in a game, you're not just gonna use one skill at a time, okay? You aren't just gonna use your ball handling, you aren't just gonna use your shooting, you aren't just gonna use your finishing. You. You're going to have to be able to switch between those three and combine them. You might have to go into a crossover, into a pull up or a crossover into a finish, or you might have to go with a jab, into a hesitation sort of flow into a veer step finish. Like there's a bunch of different things you're going to have to be able to combine in order to be a successful player. And if you just focus on doing one thing at a time, you're never going to be able to learn how to implement all those skills at the same time. So I recommend you don't do that. I recommend, but again, you can have different portions of your workout that are focused on something specific. Maybe you start off with some stationary ball handling, then maybe some spot up shooting, but then at some point you should get into some sort of game like situation shooting. So you know, you're having shooting where you're going off of a crossover into your shot or into a finish. Different stuff like that where you're actually, you know, out on the wing coming off, maybe coming off a ball screen or something like that, where you're actually simulating what you might see in a game so you can put those skills sort of together. And essentially what we do in the perimeter score system is we start off by isolating a certain skill. So we're going to get the footwork down, we're going to get the shot down, whatever it needs to be, we're going to isolate it. So we have the actual technique, the form, the footwork, we have that down. Then we're going to implement that into a game. So maybe working the turn dribble, we're going to work on that in sort of a stationary setting so we can get the flow work down and the actual movement down. Then once we have that, we're going to translate it into a game situation so that you actually can be able to use that when it comes time to pull it out in a game. And it's not just something that you worked on stationary, but you didn't have any context for when you're going to use it. That's important when it comes to actually developing your skills. So kind of to recap, you want to pick a few skills and work on those most of the time. Not every workout needs to be just focused on one skill because you use multiple skills in a game, right? So you can use more than one, you can use more than one skill at a time. Essentially, you know, you want to build your workouts up to a point where you can start to do, you know, sort of game situation drills that actually mimic what you're going to see in games. Because again, you don't want to just become better at practicing. You would become better as a basketball player in games. And the only way you do that is by becoming better at those game situations you're going to see. So, you know, and again, if you look at my NBA player workouts, they're built a lot like that. So where we can take skills and we can implement them into game situation, you know, different drills like that. And that's where you're gonna see the results. So, you know, again, if you want something that, you know, I know that was a lot, but if you want something that lays all this out for you step by step, then I highly recommend that you guys check out the perimeter score system. It's not available publicly right now. I'm not promoting it publicly right now. But you know, if you send me a DM on Instagram, I Vision Driven Basketball, then I can hook you up with that. At a discount. So, you know, if you guys again, send me a DM on Instagram, then if you're interested, then we get into that where all this stuff I just talked about is already built into it. So all you got to do is follow it. 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