Elite Athlete Construction

Combining training like this with challenging on air shooting work, over the course of an entire off season, can breed some pretty dope results. Send this to a group of 2+ players you’re sweeping in this 🧹

The path to playing calm isn’t through training calm!!

Doing these exercises, or ones with similar principles behind them, at an intensity that your body can tolerate and then building them up from there can do wonders!!

This isn’t meant to throw at any problem - if you have something that’s more of an acute/specific injury, you need a more targeted approach. But if the knees are an area of frequent weakness for you, stuff like where we are challenging the quads in various manners, done at a level you can HANDLE.

Also - if any of these exercises look like they would “kill your knees” then you fall into this category and have work to do!! Avoiding things that look painful at all costs may be the mentality that’s keeping you fragile.

Been loving the hook shot variations lately for developing touch, ESPECIALLY outside of your frame (much different).

If you have questions on how to implement this for yourself, drop a comment or shoot me a message and let’s chop it!

One argument I often hear for the type of work being done at the beginning of the video is that it builds grit and “that dawg”. That’s a valid argument, but that’s only if this is the best way of developing “that dawg”. And it’s just hard for me to imagine that most of the tenacious defenders we see at the highest level REALLY developed that tenacity from submaximal long duration defensive slides.

If you’re a hooper looking to make being an elite defnder part of your identity, do stuff that actually moves the needle, and to develop the dawg factor you should probably go guard as many humans as possible and do it with the intention of playing hard - which as we know is also a skill of its own. If you wanna feel the burn, go strength train or do extreme isometrics so that you actually get something out of it instead of driving your body into pointless fatigue. Then if you still want to do this type of work, have at it. Just don’t make the mistake of thinking it should be the centerpiece of your defense training!