Rozhovory — Basketbal

In the first part of our interview, we discussed mainly the importance of speed work or endurance training for basketball players. In the second part, you will find a lot of insights about player-coach relationship, in-season strength training or team culture. The interview is pretty long, so let's get straight to it. How long is the warm-up prior to a vigorous sprinting session? A typical warm-up for us may last as long as 30-45 minutes.  This includes all of our technical mechanics, plyometrics, medicine ball throws, starts, build-ups and any other prep work relevant to what we have planned that...

Josh Bonhotal is a Strength and Conditioning Coach who specializes in basketball specific conditioning. Currently, he is working for Purdue University, whose men's basketball team ranks very high in preseason (as no. 9 in NCAA, according to Blue Ribbon Yearbook). In the first part of our interview, Josh will be talking about offseason and preseason training, endurance training, or the effect of a coach on the attitude of players. Lot of space is also devoted to speed work. Enjoy!  Josh, thank you for making time for this interview, I really appreciate it. Could you please introduce yourself to our readers? Currently,...