Improve Basketball Quickness And Agility

Improve your basketball quickness and agility with ladder drills. Practice ladder drills at least 2 times a week and concentrate on doing the exercises correctly. You can add more speed to the exercises as you progress.



In many ways, quickness and agility are more important than straight-ahead speed. A basketball player rarely reaches maximum speed during game competition. Having great change-of-direction speed (agility with quickness) allows you to beat your opponent "to the spot" or recover from mistakes in positioning.

How many times have you seen a basketball player with "not great speed" repeatedly make plays to help the team win. This is not an accident. You can improve your change-of-direction speed with proper training. Read my post that discusses change-of-direction speed in detail.

Basketball drills designed to improve speed and quickness should be more than just "suicide drills." Game-time situations in basketball require the player to be quick and fast in many directions while controlling posture.

You can also improve quickness by improving your reaction time. You do this by training to make the right choices as quickly as possible. You can practice reacting to sight or sound cues.

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Mark Dilworth, BA, PES
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