Exercise & Diet Tips for Basketball

"Okay, here's a drill that you guys can practice at home. What this allows you to do is to help with your rotation and follow through. Taking the ball, gripping it with the seams perpendicular to your hands and just rotating it off your fingertips so it comes right back to you. No need to do it that far, just to get the rotation that's the important thing. Get the rotation, do the follow through. What this allows you to do is it will strengthen your shot and it'll give you better consistency when you're making a jump shot. Important part of basketball is to be able to maintain strength, agility and speed. Now how do you do this? It's important that you incorporate a great diet. That means at least 3 meals a day. You want to start off with your breakfast, your grains, your barleys, your milk, your soy milk if you have it. We also want to incorporate fruits in the morning. I like especially with the bananas with the potassium that eliminates any type of cramping or lethargic movements. Lunch time, lean meats, fish, chicken, turkey, we want to stay away from the red meats, the pork. We want to also emphasize vegetables. Green vegetables, broccoli, asparagus, salads, these again are good nutritional value and will help you maintain strength and your core balance. Dinner of course, one of my favorites. Carbohydrates, veggies, pastas, maintaining strength fuel so that you're able to burn a lot, because believe me basketball involves a lot of burning. The game of basketball involves a lot of starting and stopping, that's why we use our quick twitch fiber muscles. In order to use these muscles we want to be on top of it. So rest and a proper diet is a must for the fundamentals of basketball."