How important is physical fitness to playing basketball?

With the continuous development and popularization of basketball, many people have a great misunderstanding about basketball. They think that the real meaning of basketball is just shooting, but they don't deeply understand that basketball is a combination of running, jumping, transporting, passing, throwing and controlling. The continuous expansion of modern basketball and the gradual refinement of various techniques and tactics put forward higher requirements for the comprehensive quality of athletes. Without excellent physical fitness, it is just empty talk to complete high-intensity confrontation and challenge difficult technical movements. I think basketball physical fitness training should focus on speed, physical fitness and strength.

Speed: The speed in basketball is mainly based on the speed of propulsion and attack-defense conversion in the game, which is an important ability to gain time and seize opportunities for ourselves. Such as: emergency stop, quick steal in defense, quick move to block the opponent's attack route, these are all manifestations of good speed quality. Is the modern basketball game on 10? It takes 4 quarters to complete, 8 seconds to advance to the frontcourt, and the attacker requires to complete an attack within 24 seconds. The pace of the game is getting faster and faster now. In some teams, the position of center is not the inside player in the traditional sense, they all have strong speed quality, and their role in fast break is no less than that of defender. In the game, it is very likely that because a certain position can't be defended in time, it will form an offensive way of playing more and playing less, which will lead to the opponent's score. Therefore, strengthening fast-paced exercises such as turn-back running, accelerated running and extreme speed running is conducive to improving the offensive and defensive speed of the whole team.

Endurance: What basketball players need is not general endurance, but speed endurance, that is, the ability to keep moving at a certain speed. Good general endurance is the premise of strong speed endurance, and athletes must have strong general endurance to play speed endurance. In a high-intensity basketball game, no matter how high a player's technical and tactical level is, if his physical strength is exhausted, the strength, angle and range of shooting will be deviated. In a training class in May this year, I took my children to make a free throw at 17 fold after warming up (a kind of turn-back running practice), and found that many students who were originally accurate threw the air ball, but the good shot hit rate was higher, which also explained the importance of physical fitness to basketball from another angle, especially at the decisive moment, when everyone was struggling for a long time, who was stronger? I was trained in track and field. I think the endurance training of basketball players should adopt a continuous method, and try not to increase the intensity of training, but to increase the number and time of training, so as to achieve the purpose of special physical training. Long-distance jogging can also help athletes enhance their aerobic capacity.

Strength: Strength quality is the primary quality of basketball players, which greatly promotes the improvement of technical and tactical level. Professional and effective strength training can enhance the strength of athletes' upper and lower limbs, and also promote the improvement of explosive power and other qualities. In the current high-level basketball game, physical contact is more and more frequent, and direct physical confrontation is also more and more frequent. Strong and powerful athletes occupy a great advantage in the competition of space. At the same time, excellent athletes want to improve their skills and carry out intensive training, and a good strength foundation is essential. In primary school, many parents have misunderstandings about their children's "pressing" with great strength. Great strength is really not suitable for young students, but some small muscle groups are necessary to do strength exercises, and there is a clear gap between doing and not doing. In my class, some children can shoot three points, but some even make free throws in the air ball. Some parents will think that my child is thin since childhood and doesn't play center, so there is no need to make such great efforts. In the past, the strength of the center was obvious, because the most intensive physical contact was in the three-second zone. Center players often ruled the stadium with strong strength, and there was often a saying that "the center who won the game was the best in the world". But on the basketball court now, there are not a few guards with strong explosive power and physique, and the high-intensity confrontation has also expanded from the fifth to the first.

Physical fitness is a standard to measure people's physical strength and athletic ability. A good physical fitness can not only make you shine in high-intensity competitions, but also determine your health and living standards. Good health is very important for basketball players. It is the goal that every basketball enthusiast should achieve to improve his technical and tactical level while having a good figure.