If you want to make improvements you always need to start with an organized plan of attack.
If you want to change your game this summer here are 4 things you absolutely need to do to get organized.
- Get a notebook. It doesn’t have to be anything more than a spiral notebook you use for science or math class. Use this notebook to write down new drills, moves or teaching points you learn from workouts, camps or watching games. The second use of this notebook is to write out your workouts in a detailed and organized fashion before you get to the gym. If I were you I’d write them out before I go to bed each night. Write out exactly what you are going to do and how many reps you are going to perform for each drill. By writing out your workouts it’s like making a contract with yourself and you are much more likely to do the workout when you get to the gym. This will also be something you can look back on to give you confidence when things might not be going that great for you. If you have a bad shooting game you can look back on that notebook and see that you shot 15,000 shots over the last 4 months. It was just a bad night. The notebook is a source of confidence.
- Get a workout partner. Simply put – shooting alone sucks.
- Accountability: find someone who is going to push you and hold you accountable on days that you don’t want to workout. Someone who shares common goals and dreams with you.
- Rebounder: Someone you can do game like shooting drills with. Game shots from game spots at game speed.
- 1 on 1: Playing 1 on 1 is one of the best things you can do to work on your game in the off-season as long as you are doing it the right way.
- Listen to music. Use music during your workouts as a source of energy and enthusiasm. Your workouts will be much more intense.
- You must have a vision. What is going to get you through the ball handling drills when your forearms burn? What’s going to make you do that last set of squats when your legs feel like jello? What should you visualize? Watch the video below.