Strength Training for Basketball
The main goal of a strength program, and especially at high-performance level, is to provide the optimal conditions to allow the players to achieve, maintain, or enhance the proper performance of functional movements significant for basketball.
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Lorena Torres Ronda and Francesco Cuzzolin
61.1 Introduction
properties), organizing the contents around them (e.g., main body area, muscle adaptations, typolStrength training programs oriented according to ogy of contraction, and mono- or polyarticular), specificity for team sports are something rela- or based on designing attractive exercises for the tively new. Traditionally, team sports have executor, instead of programs under a philosophiextrapolated and adapted knowledge and training cal or methodological framework with the sport procedures from individual sports, with an exten- characteristics as the core focus from which the sive history in training theories and methodolo- rest of contents are developed. Moreover, when gies. However, nowadays, it is widely accepted deciding on the most appropriate resistance that the needs are completely different and spe- methods, the best equipment or the exercises to cific to each discipline, even within the team perform in the program, it is important to consports themselves. Accordingly, the authors of sider some other components, including body this chapter believe that the main goal of a positions, movement directions, coordination, or strength program, and especially at high- the period of the season. The proposal we present performance level, is to provide the optimal con- here has the sport of basketball as a focal point, ditions to allow the players to achieve, maintain, with an integrative methodology based on basor enhance the proper performance of functional ketball movements and players’ needs. movements significant for the sport, in this particular case, for basketball. It is quite common to find methodologies 61.2 Basketball Overview based on the functionality of the muscles (or its Basketball is a team sport that requires repeated short high-intensity actions (e.g., accelerations, L. T. Ronda (*) decelerations, jumps, and alike), where the playPhiladelphia 76ers Athlete Care Department, Philadelphia, PA, USA ers either have to outwit opponents, and even teammates, with cuts or side-steps, changing Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, Technogym Scientific Department, direction rapidly to avoid contact, looking for or University of Udine, Udine, Italy responding to unexpected contacts, performing e-mail: [email protected] specific basketball movements (e.g., defense F. Cuzzolin actions, screening, blocking, rebounding, dribFaculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, bling, and post-up). These actions are interposed Technogym Scientific Department, by periods of low-to-mid intensity activities (e.g., University of Udine, Udine, Italy e-mail: [email protected] walk, jog, and run), and playing with a ball cre© ESSKA 2020 L. Laver et al. (eds.), Basketball Sports Medicine and Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61070-1_61
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ates impulsive, nonlinear, and unpredictable movements and actions. Also, the ability to repeat these activities determines effective performance, which requir
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