Coaching Youth Basketball - Top 3 Conditioning Drills

As with soccer, conditioning for basketball is important because your players will be running for almost an hour and it's usually which team has more energy left in reserve that wins the close games. As youth coaches, we have to walk a fine line between getting what we want out of our players and making sure that they have some fun doing it. Some of that comes from your coaching attitude - which should be a lot like a parenting attitude: fun, but firm. We try to make these drills a competition between the players; with the losing group of players doing jumping jacks, push-ups, toe-jumps or another similar drill to get them in better shape to challenge for the next time. Many of the drills that we run are "dual-purpose" drills that will work on two skills at the small time. Here are some conditioning drills that we run throughout the year:

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