In today’s blog post, we’re going to talk about basketball drills for Developing Strength for Rebounding, Defending and Shooting. The way the passing game has gone today, we all know that our guards are stuck underneath the basket at times just like our big people. So these drills can go for both big people and guards. If you’re looking for an instant result within four to five weeks, you can get them by the basketball drills that we’re going to discuss today.
Basketball Drills for Developing Strength for Rebounding, Defending and Shooting
Basketball Drills for Strength: Number 1
The first drill we’re going to do here today is concentrating on building strength with your hands and your arms extended over your head. While playing in the post, 90% of the time your hands and your arms are extended over your head.
When you extend your hands and your arms over your head, you automatically become weaker and you become more off balance. So I’m going to do a few drills here right now just to develop the strength and some aggressive play.
I’ve got four gentlemen here on the board and the first two gentlemen are going to get the ball and they’re going to grip it as hard as they can. They’re going to look for a spot up on the board, they’re going to go up and bring the ball behind their head, and they’re going to pound it off the board as hard as they can and come back down.
Immediately explode back up and pound the ball off the board and come back down. They’re going to do it for approximately 45 seconds. When I say switch, they’re going to hand the ball to their partner and then they’re going to do it.
The object of this drill is to make the players work harder than they’ve ever worked in their life. You want to raise their level to a point that they’ve never been to before. With about 30 seconds left in this drill, they will get very tired and they’ll want to quit. But if they keep working, they will raised themselves up to the next level.
Basketball Drills for Strength: Number 2
Okay, this drill here is going to be primarily the same drill that we did with the big men bouncing the ball off the glass. But if you have guards or you have some smaller players that can’t get up and pound the ball off the glass, we’re just going to put these players up against the wall.
They’re going to pick a spot on the wall and they’re going to go back, again, bring the ball back behind their head and slam it off the wall, come down, and go back up, for 45 seconds. When I say switch, they’re going to turn around and hand the ball to their teammates and they will do it. It’s up to you or the coach to determine how long you want to do these drills.
Basketball Drills for Strength: Number 3
In this drill here, again, we’re going to concentrate on developing strength with our hands over our head. The player is going to go up and bang the ball off the board as hard as he can, come back down, explode back up, and make a lay-up.
Take the ball out of the net and go to the other side of the board, explode up, bang it off the board as hard as he can, come back down, and explode it back up. When he’s on his right side he needs to use his right hand.
When he’s on his left side he needs to use his left hand. And it’s going to be hard work, but we’re going to coach him through it.
Basketball Drills for Strength: Number 4
What we’re going to do next is basically the same drill except instead of him banging the ball off the board once, he’s going to bang the ball off the board twice. He’s going to go up and bang it, come down, go up, bang it, come down, and then he’s going to explode up for a lay-up.
Take the ball out of the net and go to the opposite of the board. The drill is going to get even tougher now so we’re going to have to encourage him as we go on and he’s going to have to lift his level of play up to the next level.
Basketball Drills for Strength: Number 5
Next we’re just going to take the drill one step further. The player’s going to bang the ball three times off the board with a vengeance before he powers it back up. He will take the ball out of the net, pound it three times with a vengeance on the other side, come down, and go and power it back up.
So what the player has done is he has given us four good efforts. He has pounded the ball off the board three times and he powered it up. What you want to tell your players about this drill is when the ball comes off the rim, you’ve got to go up and get it; you might have to go up two or three times before you get the rebound. And once you get the rebound, you’ve got to be strong enough to power it back up.
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