Depending on your gender you may have a few more days. The official start to the girls high school basketball season is November 2nd. Boys basketball starts a week later. Regardless, if you’re not ready to go by November 1st its too late.
Better start training now. 60 days is a short period of time, but allows plenty of opportunity for improvement. On a results producing program you would only need to train 16 days out of 60 to improve your speed, agility, strength and power. That leaves plenty of time to enjoy Homecoming, Friday night football, keep your grades up and work on your basketball skills.
Back in the day, athletes would use tryouts as their preparation time. I remember my pre-season “get ready” routine. I asked my parents for a new pair of high tops and left them in the box until I put them on the day of tryouts. Nothing makes running up and down the court easier than a stiff pair of shoes creating blisters that sting each time you hit the ground. I also picked up a basketball the day before tryouts, went out in the cold November air and shot 3 half court shots before deciding the cold was throwing off my shot.
There is a better way, not only to give you the best chance of making your team, but also to prepare your body to survive the tryout.
After last years school tryouts I received feedback from the athletes who used EXPLOSION as their pre-season regimen. The majority of the feedback centered on how prepared our athletes are, and the fact that their teammates we’re not. Here are a few of the highlights below:
- Basketball tryouts went very well. She made the Freshman A team at Neuqua Valley High School! She is very excited about how things went. Just a side note, she believes that she is in much better physical shape than the rest of her teammates and we both know it is due to Explosion and the Bulls Academy team! The last few months really paid off!
- She not only made the Freshman Team, but made the “A” team! She very much enjoyed the Explosion program and I truly think it helped her in this achievement.
- She made the Girls Varsity Basketball team at Glenbard South. Thank you so very much for all your help with her training. Your program was very beneficial and contributed greatly to her success.
- He made the team. He sure would love to do explosion and increase his vertical even more, but now with B-ball season he really has no free time. Thanks for your training he really enjoyed it and is still training to keep it up.
Summer flew by.. so will the next 60 days. If I were fighting for a spot on the roster I wouldn’t lay on the couch eating chips wondering what I could do to increase my odds. I’d be stacking the odds in my favor by getting involved with EXPLOSION. A free trial gets you your first workout, and gets you one step close to making the team. The results are clear. If you want to give yourself the best chance of making your team, you better be ready before tryouts begin.
Get the leg up on your preparation for your next tryout. Get a free trial session of Explosion, and learn how you can set yourself apart from the competition.
Mark Crabtree MS, ATC, CSCS is the Director of Sports Performance at the Chicago Bulls Chicago White Sox Training Academy. The EXPLOSION program excels at helping student athletes improve their athletic abilities. Contact Mark at (630)324-8248 or mcrabtree@bullssoxacademy.com to set up a free trial session of EXPLOSION training. Check out the EXPLOSION blog for more tips on becoming a better athlete.
