Complete Conditioning for Basketball presents the ultimate in training for the sport from the National Basketball Conditioning Coaches Association, the experts who work daily to maximize the performance potential of the game's top stars. Build your strength and power to be a beast on the boards. Improve your quickness and agility to be a defensive stopper. Increase your vertical jump to rise over defenders for uncontested shots. With over 200 exercises, drills, performance tests, and workouts, plus a 60-minute instructional DVD, Complete Conditioning for Basketball is the most comprehensive training resource for men and women at all levels of competition. Get the most out of your workouts and add new dimensions to your game. Complete Conditioning for Basketball will help you to fulfill your potential and make the most of every opportunity on the court.

Strength Training for Basketball will help you create a basketball-specific resistance training program to help athletes at each position--guard, forward, or center--develop strength and successfully transfer that strength to the basketball court.

Basketball Strength and Conditioning, Above the Rim with Camp Sanderson is a Basketball specific training book. This book covers all areas of training basketball athletes including strength, power, speed, conditioning, mobility, nutrition, and much more. This book also provides sample workouts and many diagrams to help coaches and athletes start implementing what they learn into their own workouts.

Why is strength training important for the basketball athlete? In a dynamic game that changes by the instant, athletes need to be conditioned to sustain the highly stressful workloads experienced during practice or a game. For the basketball athlete, that means strength cannot be defined only as a measure of how much weight the person can lift; rather, it is an ability that should be judged by whether it can successfully be applied on the court. Developed with the expertise of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), Strength Training for Basketball shows you how to design resistance training programs that will develop your athletes’ strength on the court—helping them to jump higher, accelerate faster, and abruptly change direction. The book will help you understand the specific physical demands of each position—point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward, and center. You will also find the following: 20 testing protocols for measuring and assessing athletes’ strength, reactive strength, power, speed, agility, endurance, and anaerobic capacity 18 total body exercises with 2 variations 19 lower body exercises with 3 variations 17 upper body exercises 11 anatomical core exercises with 5 variations 16 sample programs for off-season, preseason, in-season, and postseason resistance training Each resistance training exercise consists of a series of photos and a detailed list of primary muscles trained, beginning position and movement phases, breathing guidelines, modifications and variations, and coaching tips to guide you in selecting the right exercises for a program. You’ll also learn how to structure those programs based on the goals and length of each season and for each position. Backed by the NSCA and the knowledge and experience of successful high school, college, and professional basketball strength and conditioning professionals, Strength Training for Basketball is the authoritative resource for creating basketball-specific resistance training programs to help your athletes optimize their strength and successfully transfer that strength to the basketball court. Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education course and exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes all the course materials and exam.

Scott Thom is the head strength coach for men's basketball at Washington State University. Previously, he was the strength coach for University of California-Berkeley men's basketball team and the head basketball coach for Vintage High School (Napa, Calif.) He has been coaching since 2003 and has experience working with athletes at the high school, collegiate and professional level. Simply put, this book is every "learning moment" Coach Thom has had since 2003. Whether, these moments came in the form of trial and error with his teams, to summer internships, to learning from great coaches around him. Season of Strength is 500 pages of applicable information for coaches at all levels. Season of Strength gives you:* 39 Specific lifting programs* 140+ Basketball player/Team development drills* Year plans* In-season and off-season conditioning plans* Movement screens & testing protocols* How to create "buy-in" with your team* Injury prevention, promoting recovery, and nutrition* Pre-practice and pre-game activation routines* Game day and game week management* Understanding the different training phases; Work Capacity, Strength, and Power Coach Thom's positive energy and enthusiasm makes training in the weight room and on the basketball court fun and productive. His sincere approach to coaching motivates you to get better. He's the type of coach that cares about you more than just basketball or getting your stronger. He's about building lifelong friendships that will last beyond basketball. Over the years our friendship has grown, and he's someone I can always count on."-Tyrone Wallace- Utah Jazz "I met Scott Thom many years ago when he was the basketball strength and conditioning coach at Cal. I knew right away Scott was one of those 'young up and comers' who would be making waves very soon. Scott has a great background in strength and conditioning, but I believe his greatest attribute is his ability to convey information and training lessons. Scott is a COACH, one thing you will hear over and over about Scott is that he has an amazing rapport with and respect from his players and the coaches he works with. Scott is the real deal and is one of my very favorite people to be around in this world."-Coach Robert Dos Remedios

Designed for both male and female players, this title presents daily workouts for optimal training throughout the year so that players can withstand the rigors of the sport. Explanations and detailed illustrations provide clear instruction on how to perform each of the 192 drills and exercises.

A practical workout manual that shows players how to increase their strength with a ready-to-use program designed specifically for the physical challenges they face on the court. Photos and illustrations throughout.