Fundamentals Basketball Workout Plan

Your Fundamentals Basketball Workout Plan

There are many ways to become a very good basketball player.  Many types of people come to the “arena” that love basketball and want to be good to great basketball players.  Some tall, some extremely fast and quick and with great jumping ability.  Some are the opposite of this and many in between.  Whatever you are bringing to the table by nature and birth, no matter anyone tells you is not the defining answer.

Some with great physical attributes rely on only these advantages and never get to where they want to go in The Game.  It's because they never bothered to incorporate through extreme hard work the fundamentals of basketball.  Some without these natural gifts give up too soon.  They may continue on but they don't stay diligently and unwaveringly on their mission to be a great basketball player.  YOU CAN DO IT if you stay the course.  You have to have a burning desire to be a ball player.

If you can shoot the basketball and you have a good to great handle (and I don't mean showboat type, but we'll talk about that in here later), and you can pass there is a place for you on somebody's team at every level.  Believe that.  I know this.  I've been around a long time played basketball since I was 6 years old and played at a high level all the way up to Division I.  You have to work everyday to improve.

Fundamentals of Shooting The Basketball

Some basic tenants of shooting a basketball are:

• 1: Elbow in an L shape
• 2: Ball seated in your shooting hand without the ball resting in the palm of your hand (finger tip control)
• 3:Your shoulders squared up and facing your target
• 4: Aim at your target with your head and eyes (I always did and always taught others to aim at just over the front of the rim to help with that soft touch you want…some teach to aim at the back of the rim…I believe this leads to harder shots)
• 5: and your feet approximately shoulder width apart with your shooting side foot slightly ahead of the other foot
• 6: Follow through with your shooting hand straight up in the and your hand and fingers only extending towards your target like a goose neck)
• 7: Some teach that you shoot get ready to follow your shot in case you miss but feel this is self-defeating as I believe that you should totally believe that you are going to make every shot.  If your worried about missing it will lead to more misses.
• The most important things are to practice every single day on your shooting and to know that like hitting a baseball shooting is AN ATTITUDE you have to KNOW you can shoot and with putting in the work you better know this in your heart!!!

Below is a good example of shooting basics from Coach Ryan Razooky of ILoveBasketballTV