NJL Warm up Games v Ballina - 31 January 2021

The Basketball NSW High Performance Department have put together some documents to help assist coaches and athletes returning to training;
  1. Warm Up and Cool Down Recovery Protocols
  2. Training Sessions
  3. Fitness and Strength and Conditioning Sessions
We have put these sessions together as a guide only, you may adjust and change what is necessary. The idea was to be able to provide ways to train in different environments (outdoors) or methods if unable to get a regular court booking. 

It's important as coaches we ease the athletes back in to returning to training. Athletes have now been dormant for 12 weeks, going from possible 5-6 days a week with some sort of physical exercise/training/game, to 0-1 day a week for 3 months. 

Having a strong focus on Functional Body Movement and Warming Up and Recovering is of the utmost importance. 
AFL returned to training and on day 1, 16 soft tissue injuries occured to elite, physically primed athletes. Please place importance and patience with these when returning to train.

Basketball NSW High Performance Warm Up and Recovery Protocols ​

Training Sessions

9 training sessions, for 3 different levels of ability;
  1. Aussie Hoops
  2. Domestic/Representative 
  3. Advanced
We have put these sessions together as a guide only, you may adjust and change what is necessary. The idea was to be able to provide ways to train in different environments (outdoors) or methods if unable to get a regular court booking. 

These sessions are designed to be either completed as a team or can also be sent to athletes for them to complete at home.

As you will see, each of the sessions allows time for a good warm up and recovery, with 40-50 minutes of exercise. Please ensure the athletes are educated about their bodies and the importance of warm up and recovery.

*Please note NSW Government Public Health Orders (PHO) must be followed whilst conducting any training sessions, please adjust these or you own sessions accordingly to keep everyone safe and to help Basketball return in our associations.
*Please note athletes need to slowly increase their load as they return to train, it will take up to 6 weeks for athletes to regain their strength and fitness.

​Fitness and Strength and Conditioning Sessions

​These are different fitness workouts you are able to send to your athletes or complete as a group in an outdoor setting.

Healthy Body Company is a physiotherapist who has developed a 6 week program (only 3 released to date). This program is all about functional body movement, strength training and increasing athletes' load to be able to return to training safely. The videos are very easy to follow and each video represents a 7 day program which is set out for them.

These are a guide and examples of how coaches are able to train with athletes or athletes train themselves and gradually increase their fitness. We may or may not be able to get on a court for various reasons with bookings, or with the amount of teams trying to use a court, however we can get to a local park or oval and work on our fitness and team bonding.