

With so many other skills, offenses, defenses, and special situations to work on during team practices, players have no chance of shooting the number of shots that will make them a better shooter.
If you want to develop great shooters, it's imperative that your players are working on their shot in their own time.
The biggest problem with this is that most players have absolutely no idea what they're meant to work on when they're at the gym by themselves or with friends...
They end up going to the gym, mucking around with their friends, and throwing up a few three-pointers, and then going home thinking they improved.
Do you think players improve when they do this?
Which is why We've put together these 20 individual shooting workouts.
By providing players with shooting workouts they can perform on their own, you can be sure that they're doing the right things to improve their shot when they're by themselves at the gym.
Before you get to the shooting workouts, here are a few things you should remember:
- All the following 20 workouts have been deliberately designed for players that only have access to a basketball and a hoop. There is no fancy equipment required that only the top players will have available to them. In some workouts, We will recommend using a chair or cone as a defender, but the drill can easily be performed without one.
- These individual workouts can be performed with a partner. In fact, we recommend it if you have one available. That way players can rebound for each other and two people will be getting better instead of one. So, encourage your players to take a friend when they go to the gym to work on their shot!
- To be a great shooter, we recommend performing one of these workouts at least 5 times a week. To be a good shooter, perform a shooting workout 3 times a week.
- 3 absolute musts for every basketball workout:
- You must have a plan (you will find 20 of them here)
- You must workout at game speed (it's the only way to improve).
- You must track your shots (take a pen and don't forget to write down your attempts).
- If you need to adjust the amount of made shots on certain workouts, go for it! Customize the shooting plans to suit your players.
- Finally, don't be afraid to switch up the workouts. It would be boring to perform the same workout every time you go to the gym.
Allow guards to perform post workouts and vice versa. Doing so creates positionless players and keeps the workouts fresh and interesting!
Good luck!
- Coach Ellis