Basketball England’s new Starting Five Performance Enhancement programme is designed to help players prepare for action.
The downloadable and printable poster below is for clubs and leagues to utilise and illustrates how individuals can engage specific muscles and joints in order to reduce injury risk and also increase basic movement skills.
Building on the success of the Athletic Development Programme and the research conducted by BE Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach Mark Williams, this functional warm-up aims to help coaches and players get comprehensive basketball-specific preparation for playing and training.
Research showed coaches realise basic fundamental movement patterns are vital for performance benefits, however they were unsure of how to coach them.
The exercises within Starting Five will address a number of these areas. BE hopes the players will develop over time, becoming more competent with all the attributes to become a robust player aligning with the BE Robustness Pillar on the Player Development Framework.
The Starting Five targets 5 areas:
