Reset and Transformation
two themes for the off season
Many athletes struggle with understanding and accepting the concepts of Reset and Transformation. The main component to the struggle is a lack of comprehension of what type of player they were in the previous season. We so no more important part of the process in life and in athletics than solving this comprehension gap.
Here are a few items that propagate and enable this.
lack of detailed analytics - athletes are not provided enough information related to how individual performances relate to the team dynamic. We often present one to one analytics with no real detailed explanation of the additional dynamics
travel team focus points - we strongly encourage travel team play. The key to strong travel team play is proper planning from the individual context. Players should document what their goals are and set milestones for travel team play. Examples are play more face to the hoop basketball, better ball handling in pressure situations. Many athletes just adopt previous seasons skills and don’t really improve
continued offseason development - players that focus on individual performance measures in the offseason typically have more successful in season results, can understand team concepts quickly and have higher athletic performance values
The focus of this years program is Reset and Transformation. Let’s breakdown each of these into bullet points that will comprise this offseason focus areas;
Reset
focus on head up dribble, low body position, ball below the knees, capacity to pass quickly out of the dribble
footwork- capacity to attack defence before putting the ball on the ground, ability to pivot away from defensive pressure without loosing the ball
strength - full body workouts with lighter weight values and faster movements - stretch bands, dynamic movements, sprint jog - sprint jog. boxing, cycling, swimming
Transformation
no preseason conditioning. transformation will provide an opportunity for all competition athletes to arrive transformed and in shape
focus on moving the level of compete of all athletes to higher level, put simply, less reliance on top 3 players and more reliance on top 8 players
faster attack values - attacking the basket with higher percentage shots
faster changes in defensive concepts
In moving quickly into the offseason we see success through communication of expectations and goal settings. If we are not meeting our goals in May we have time to adjust before June/July. We often see June as a difficult time to focus do to academic pressures and gym availability. Proper out door goal setting for June is a key component of Reset and Transformation. We look forward to developing off season workouts for all our participants alongside proper goal setting. Here is to the offseason starting.