Alan Stein: Pre-Season Strength & Conditioning - The Foundation of a Championship Team

• Stronger, well conditioned athletes execute their skills more efficiently and at a higher rate
• Use these conditioning drills to reinforce toughness, competitiveness and communication
• Prevent injuries and keep your best players on the court all season

View Live Footage: Alan Stein: Pre-Season Strength & Conditioning - The Foundation of a Championship Team - Basketball -- Championship Productions, Inc.

with Alan Stein,
Head Strength & Conditioning coach for the nationally renowned DeMatha Catholic High School boys basketball program;
owner of Stronger Team;
has worked with elite high school, college, and NBA players.

Stronger, well conditioned athletes execute their basketball skills more efficiently and at a higher rate.

In this on court presentation, conditioning specialist Alan Stein takes players through drills and concepts he uses for pre-season workouts.

You want your players to be in the best shape possible before your first practice. To ensure that goal, Coach Stein discusses his seven rules for strength training.

Stein's training drills will not only develop stronger players and improve their performance on court (jumping higher and running faster), but will also reduce the chance for injury. And if they do sustain an injury, stronger muscles, ligaments and tendons tend to heal faster.

Moving to the court, Stein starts every workout doing activities without shoes to develop strong, mobile ankles and feet. The feet are extremely important because they initiate every movement, and conversely, the ankles and feet are the two most injured areas on a basketball player. He takes the players through six drills to strength your feet and to loosen the players up before a workout, practice or game.

In the half court, he begins a series of warm-up drills using a basketball that will begin to loosen the player's ankles, legs, hips, knees and shoulders. These lead into his dynamic flexibility exercises where he shows some hamstring burners and gets into his agility and reaction workout component.

A common theme of Stein's workouts is the use of a tennis ball. Using the tennis ball as the focus, Stein demonstrates drills and exercises that will improve reaction, quickness, agility, mental focus and competitiveness.

Competitive drills are a great way to get your players to focus on executing basketball specific movement while also working on conditioning. Stein demonstrates some of his favorites including race drills while executing basketball movement, slides and footwork while strengthening the ankles.

He also shares some additional drills involving the use of playing cards to work on focus and hand-eye coordination as well as a European passing drill and a backboard sting using a medicine ball.

Coach Stein is known nationwide as an expert in basketball training. His strength training and conditioning programs will allow your players to execute skills more efficiently, and will become the foundation to your pre-season success.

Alan Stein continues to find ways to improve players using innovative techniques that can be incorporated into any program.

Produced at the spring 2010 Verona, NY clinic.

74 minutes. 2010.