Nothing in life comes easy, or a lack of hard work. Some are gifted and things come naturally, while others work their butt off fall short. What I am about to present to you is no quick way to be the best basketball player ever in 5 days but it is a start, and a path to lead you to success.
How to get better at basketball in only 5 days? This involves a lot of hard work and time, do not expect miracles in only 5 days. The goal after the 5 days is done to realize that you have a lot of untapped potential and as long as you keep working on your basketball game you will see improvements. You will be completing several workouts that work on different parts of your basketball game, that hopefully come together that will improve your game…
Maybe you have a big basketball tryout in less than a couple of weeks, or you should want to show out in a big tournament. Whatever the reason I am here to help and show you what needs to be done if you really want to improve your basketball game.
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Workouts
During these 5 days you will have a series of workouts, one dribbling workout a day, 2 shooting workouts, pick-up basketball, and an IQ workout.
How does that look?
7 am – Shooting Workout – Try to aim for 500 shots or as many as you can.
9 am to 330 pm – School – If you can play or shoot at lunchtime do so.
4 pm – Homework
530 pm – Ball handling workout
6 pm – Dinner
6 30 pm – Pick up basketball
8 pm – Shooting
930 pm – IQ Workout Youtube
Again this is just a rough guideline. Try to get up at least 500 shots a day. It would be ideal that you have a hoop that is free for you to shoot on, your own hoop or local park. This way you can wake up get to your court and shoot.
If you can dedicate your time and effort for 5 days, you may develop a habit and decide to go longer and further with your workouts. Worry about your first workout don’t think about the whole week to come, when we do this as humans we tend to quit or performance suffers.
Feel free to add or continue any workouts you are currently doing to this regimen.
Shooting
You want to get better, well, I got news for you this isn’t going to be easy. But if you love playing basketball and want to improve this is a must. You probably wonder why you’re not improving. You have been working on your form but are not improving when it comes to shooting consistently. I am willing to bet you don’t put up enough volume in when it comes to shooting. If you count up all the shots you took in one week, how many would you guess you took? ………Exactly…
You need to put up shots every day for the 5 days you plan on putting in work. I am talking 500 to 1000 shots a day. I hear players complain all the time, How am I suppose to put up that many shots my legs get tired? Not every shot has to be game shots where you do a dribble move at full speed and take a jumper.
Example
Form shooting – directly in front of the rim and 5 feet out
Layups – Mikan, left hand, right hand reverses underneath the rim. I usually go for 100 makes right there.
Shooting from the 5 spots on the court. this can be 2 sets of 25 thats already 250 shots, 300 plus total.
Then game shots. Think of the shots that you miss in games or pickup basketball and practice though. Shoot shots you know you’re going to be shooting in games. You can add three point shots to the mix. But if you’re not making shots 5 to 10 in a row from different spots on the court I wouldn’t bother right now.
You don’t have to count 500 makes, you could count how many shots you took. you can also keep track of how many you made from the different spots on the court and mark it down in your phone with the notes app or use a pen and a pad. In the following workout, you want to try to beat your best. Having something you can measure your results will give you motivation, show progress and give you confidence. There is no perfect program just shoot good quality shots, when you miss ask yourself what happen and adjust. You will need to do this twice a day or if you can get 500 shots at one time do so.
Dribbling
I am surprised more people don’t mention this, many young basketball players expect that if they have a good handle of the ball by doing hundreds of drills they will be able to cross up anyone. Timing and reading the defense has just as much to do with being a good dribbler as the skill itself of handling the ball. It is not enough to work on your handle you must actually practice against opponents and read the defense. So if you have been doing dribbling drills and you are not getting any better or you choke in games when trying to blow by your opponent, it is because you really need to do a lot more in game dribbling drills.
You can choose any ball handling workout you feel like, but if you are not sure, in the meantime here is a great ball handling workout, from Ryan Razooky Youtube channel. You need two basketballs but remember no amount of dribbling drills will make you cross a player up every time, you still need to read the defense and use timing.
Basketball IQ
Basketball IQ is important, it is one thing I wish I would have spent more time on, if all you did was study and research moving without the ball that would go a long way to improve your basketball game.
Tip: One of the best moves you can do to get past your defender when you want to get the ball on a cut is to wait for the defender to look at you then look at the ball. As soon as he looks at the ball go behind him and cut to the basket, you want to anticipate this move and it does take some timing.
When you get to bed at night get on youtube and research basketball IQ videos, and try to learn one thing to apply to your basketball game the following day.
Once you see yourself getting better, you may be addicted to the results. Growing up playing basketball whenever I did really well playing in games I was addicted to getting back on the court the next day to practice, it was like I was afraid to lose that ability to be able to dominate in a game. Another Youtuber out of high school by the name DC Heat has a video where he trains 7 days a week like a pro. In the video, he states how he loved seeing his own progress and remembers how well in certain times in his life where he doubled down and improved his game and made noticeable improvements.
Final Thoughts
You can change and add as many workouts as you need, if you work on your weaknesses alone this will go a long way to improving your game in just 5 short days. Improving your weak fundamentals will make you a threat on the court with that skill.