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Building A Shooting Workout

Building A Shooting Workout

This is a question I get all the time on social media.

“Coach, can you give me a good shooting workout?”

The real answer is, NO.  Not because I don’t want to help, but because I work really hard to have a purpose for every workout.  Early on in my career I would have a player and we would do this drill for a little while, then that drill, just generally trying to build general habits.  

But general habits don’t tend to help individual players.  So when I’m asked for a shooting workout, the truth is that I could make up a series of situations and drills, but they likely aren’t the specific situations or drills that particular player needs.  Thats why I’ve created my courses.  To teach progressions based on what your bad habits are.  

Let me see if I can give you a glimpse of the general template I might follow.

First of all, you need to know what you are working on.  My first question to you would be “are you good shooter?”  If you are, my follow up would be “what game situations do you get all the time, and what would you like to add?”  

If you aren’t a good shooter I would want to determine the habit(s) that is holding you back from being a better shooter.  Then we need to work on that habit.

When I first started doing workouts with players I was too broad with my focus, particularly with weaker shooters.  Now I zero in on their bad habit and focus on it all workout.  I have a better arsenal of drills for multiple habits, and more willingness to be patient.   After all, if that habit is what is holding the player back the most, why wouldn’t it get all of your attention.

So there are sometimes entire workouts of different versions of form shooting.  In others, form shooting is the first 10 minutes of a warm up.

Within a good warm up, we should be progressing the speed and difficulty of form shooting.  It isn’t an all-or-nothing situation.  It isn’t form shooting or game speed.  You progress from one to another.

Start in close, stationary, and slow moving.  Slowly increase the distance of the shots, and as you do, also increase the speed.  And don’t forget to slowly add game movements, like jabs and pivots.

In an average NBA workout with a better shooter we will spend 10 minutes warming up, with all of those shots coming from inside the free throw line.

Then we will select 4 different game situations and get multiple reps of those situations.  

With a weaker shooter, the entire workout may be stationary and inside the free throw line.  The last thing I want to do it spend half the workout building good habits and the other half of the workout undoing them.

So, when you sit down to plan your next workout, start with the question “what do I need to work on the most?”

Build your workout with that idea in mind.

 

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