Basketball Athleticism 2-Pack

BD-05355A:

with Jason Papalio,
Athletic Recovery Training Specialist;
staff consultant for Manhattan College's 2014 and 2015 MAAC Champion basketball teams;
Has worked with high school, college and professional athletes

A good basketball warm-up targets both the skills needed for the game, and the systems and muscles used in the game. Jason Papalio's dynamic warm-up shown in this video will give you the ability to tailor your pre-game warm-up to both prevent injuries and increase your team's athletic prowess.

Warm-Up

Learn how to tailor exercises needed to prepare your team mentally and physically for the game. Focusing on core, mobility, stability, balance and flexibility, Coach Papalio demonstrates a variety of drills that target body position and muscle groups to make your players the best they can be. Papalio gives you a menu of drills to choose from, which include a variation on jumping jacks, pogo jumps, a lunge series, a walking series, a band series, and more.

Cool Down

Papalio also explains and demonstrates a post-game and post-practice cool down and stretching routine, incorporating both yoga and static stretching to help prevent injuries and increase flexibility and recovery in athletes. Increasing the flexibility of your players will help them play in a better stance and be more productive on the court.

These warm-up and injury prevention techniques go beyond the usual X's and O's of a coaching clinic. Coach Papalio's emphasis is on how to keep players healthy and strong. His recovery techniques, drills and exercises focus on making your players the best athletes they can be!

Produced at the Nike Championship Basketball Coaches Clinics in Cleveland (OH), Charlotte (NC) and Minneapolis (MN); Fall 2017.

44 minutes. 2018.

BD-05355B:

with Jason Papalio,
Athletic Recovery Training Specialist;
staff consultant for Manhattan College's 2014 and 2015 MAAC Champion basketball teams;
Has worked with high school, college and professional athletes

Many times in the game of basketball, players are bumped or pushed and must make shots off balance or quickly adjust and react on defense or offense. In this video, Jason Papalio introduces core strength training drills specific to basketball to be successful, strong, and balanced on the court.

Coach Papalio provides you with the logic of how to work players out and develop them to improve as the season moves on so that your athletes peak at playoff time. He starts with an introduction and background lecture on the need for recovery and strength strategies for your team, and explains how to incorporate these into your practice sessions.

Balance and Core Strength Drills

Core muscle are important in the game of basketball. Developing and strengthening the core are keys to improving athleticism of players. Papalio demonstrates 15 drills to develop balance and core strength. He shows simple balancing drills, and adds the use of a basketball, to test the ability of players while building up their core strength and ability to balance. Using passing, dribbling and defensive drills stressing proper body position, Papalio develops both game skills and strength at the same time.

Cool Down Stretches

Coach Papalio concludes with an example of post-workout stretching routines and important information on proper nutrition and hydration. These strategies can be incorporated at the conclusion of any workout or game, and can help speed up a player's recovery while reducing soreness.

Incorporating specific basketball skills along with proper body position, ball skills, and strengthening, Coach Papalio gives you a strategy to keep your team healthy and in top shape by utilizing proper body position, ball skills, and core strength.

Produced at the Nike Championship Basketball Coaches Clinics in Cleveland (OH), Charlotte (NC) and Minneapolis (MN); Fall 2017.

45 minutes. 2018.