Game-Speed and Overload Training Monday, March 12, 2007
If you're looking to really elevate your game, you've got to use the most effective and efficient training techniques available.
One thing I focus on with all of my private coaching clients is game-speed and overload training. By integrating these into your training program (both in your personal workouts during the season, and in your off-season training), your game is guaranteed to improve.
Game-speed training is pretty easy to understand. It means executing drills at as close to game speed as possible. Players, especially when they're doing personal workouts, tend to lapse into a "practice speed", which is much slower than the action that takes place in games.
So the next time you go through a workout (even just a shoot around on your own), make sure you speed up the action so it is closer to the fast-paced, quick action that takes place in actiual competition.
Overload training should also a very important part of your training. Overload training means doing things (shooting, dribbling, etc.) is a way that is even harder and more difficult than it would be in a game situation.
For example, two-ball dribbling drills, done correctly, can force your body/mind to deal with more than it usually does in a game. Most people have trained using one basketball, so doing dribbling drills with two balls gets you out of your comfort zone and forces you to become a better ball handler.
Overload drills can also be accomplished by combining multiple skills. For example, take a jump shot from the top of they key (shooting), then immediately get the rebound, toss it off the board and go up for a strong put-back shot (rebounding), then run to half-court and do defensive slides to the baseline (defense/quickness), then grab the ball and do a pump-fake and dribble drive the the basket from the wing (explosiveness/driblling/offensive moves).
Just by combining these skills in rapid succession, working on multiple skills (shooting, rebounding, dribbling, defense, etc.), and doing them at game-speed, you've created a situation where you're really pushing the limits and helping to expand your game.
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posted by Brandon Schenz @ 6:24 AM,
