Free Youth Basketball Coaching Tips – Free Throw Conditioning Drill

Try these free youth basketball coaching tips with your team. As we all know they need to run a lot to get into shape and conditioned.  Most of the time they do not like to run.  But they love to shoot free throws.

Have all your basketball players line up and each player gets to shoot 2 shots.  When they miss one that adds 1 to their list. If they make one that takes away.  However many they end up with they run that many suicides.  If they end up with a negative number (which isn’t very often, the other coach and myself run that many.

It really gets them to work hard because they like to see the basketball coach run!“  I usually will run with them every now and then.  They really like that also.  Sometimes when I am running with them after a few I will say, “okay whoever can beat me this next time can sit out”.  If it looks like they are trying really hard I will let them win.