McQuaid
Jesuit Basketball Preseason Information Page
- Practice
begins on Monday, November 3rd for Varsity and JV levels. Freshman tryouts
begin on Wednesday, November 5th. Modified tryouts begin in January.
- Winter
Sports Physicals are being offered Wednesday, October 15th (see Mrs. Murray
to sign up)
- Triplicate
forms need to be handed in no later than Monday, October 27th, in order for
you to participate at practice on Nov. 3rd. NO PAPERWORK = NO PRACTICE =
NO EXCEPTIONS!
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- To
prepare for the start of practice and to put yourself in the best possible position
to make the Varsity, J.V., Freshman, or Modified Team in the 2008-09 season,
you should be working to better yourself in three areas:
I)
Basketball Skills
II)
Conditioning and Agility
III)
Strength
- With
respect to "Basketball Skills" development, the Coaching Staff will
provide ample "open gym" time and participation in a Fall league during the preseason to work on
your game. Remember that just playing 5 on 5 "pickup" is not
enough in itself do maximally develop your basketball skills. Drills (shooting,
defensive, ball handling, rebounding, etc.), often done by yourself, or perhaps
with 1or 2 partners are just as important as playing the game. At camp
this summer, Coach Ruppert provided you with a comprehensive basketball skills
individual workout.
- Click on the following link (Basketball Skills Workout)
to access this workout. Even if time limitations permit you to only do
part of the workout (maybe breaking it up over two or three days), that is still EXCELLENT!
- Strength
is "the great equalizer" on the basketball court. Again, as
competitive as it is to play basketball for McQuaid at any level, can you afford
not to prepare yourself ? (click
here
for the pre-season lifting program)
- For
those of you, particular players at the younger levels, who have never lifted
weights, understand that you should begin with very low weight and concentrate
on getting comfortable with lifting as a whole. PROPER SAFETY AND FORM
ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS , NOT SHOWING EVERYONE HOW MUCH WEIGHT
YOU CAN LIFT!!! The links below should prove very helpful in showing your
proper form and technique for many of the lifting exercises which are included
in the strength development part of the program
Some Videos Of Exercises
That Are Part Of Our Lifting Program (observe for proper technique)
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Additional Weight Lifting
Exercises Broken Up Into General Categories (with proper technique videos)
ANOTHER
OPTION IS TO GO TO GOOGLE SEARCH ENGING AND TYPE IN THE NAME OF THE EXERCISE
ALONG WITH "ERGX"
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