High School years can be pretty overwhelming for some people, especially freshman getting adjusted to more homework, athletic commitments, and other social aspects of this time. It can be pretty common for a high school kid to feel like they are too busy and “don’t have time” for anything, especially their individual skill development.
Well I found your time.
I always ask players at camp, “how many of you watch something for at least 15 minutes each day on tv?” and everyone raises there hand.
I follow that up with “how many of you watch something stupid on tv for at least 15 minutes?”
Usually most of them stay up.
You aren’t ever going to find time or make time — you just need to make priorities. I proceeded to explain to them that during the course of watching an NBA or NCAA DI basketball game on tv they actually had 39 minutes to work on their skills.
Each televised NBA or NCAA DI game has 4 mandatory tv timeouts per half each lasting about 3 minutes long – this isn’t including team called timeouts. That’s 24 minutes plus the 15 minute half time and voilà– there is your 39 minutes of workout time.
Here is a ballhandling example:
2 Dribble Series (1-2 means taking 2 pound dribbles)
1 Ball Stationary Dribble Moves – 20 of each move – 100 total moves
- 1-2 Inside Out Right
- 1-2 Inside Out Left
- 1-2 Crossover
- 1-2 Between the Legs
- 1-2 Behind the Back
Tight Cones – 4 Trips – 5 Moves per trip – 20 Total Dribble Moves Per Move – 100 total moves
200 total moves x 5 days/week x 50 weeks is 100,000 dribble moves.
Take the example above and do one of the ball handling drills during each tv timeout during the first half and use halftime to finish up. Make sure you know they are tv timeouts though and not :30’s!
Work smart. Work Hard.