Heart Monitors Helps Build Strength and Stamina for Basketball
Basketball is a tough and physically demanding sport requiring a combination of strength, stamina, speed, agility and visual skills. Develop you
strength, stamina and speed with a heart monitor.
The base fitness level required to do wind sprints up and down a basketball court for an hour and keep your competition covered on the Big D
require a big commitment to fitness. You can have the touch, the shooting skills and the agility but without the three "S"'s - strength, stamina
and speed, you are never going to make the grade.
This is where a heart monitor and a carefully crafted fitness program come into play. In the summer time you build your base fitness with road work
and strength training at the gym. Lines, stairs and explosive training come into play after the base is in and the season approaches. The all-important
shooting skills require disciplined practice, finding your spots and the finesse and speed to throw off your competition, but without the stamina,
strength and speed all of those shooting skills won't matter.
Our favorite heart monitors for basketball fitness are the Polar FT60 and the Polar FT80 because they have great
guidance for strength training. With strength training in particular, it is important to recover the appropriate amount before you begin a subsequent
set if you hope to achieve the greatest benefit. Rest too little and you risk over-fatiguing the muscles, rest too much and you minimize the
benefit - so measuring the proper recovery right to the second is critical.
It's also important to have zone alerts for your aerobic base building and data that shows the improvement in the rate of your recovery.
The Suunto t3d and the Suunto M5 allow you to download your data, as do the Polar FT60 and the Polar FT80, so you can analyze
your workouts, your recovery and keep tabs on the improvements in your fitness.
Basketball is tough sport but with heart monitors and the right feedback you can improve your game. So bring your A-game with a heart
monitor from Polar and Suunto because they are a solid investment in your development for the future.
If you would like expert help selecting a heart monitor that will get you more fit for basketball then just call the experts at the Heart Rate
Watch Company on our national toll-free line at 866-586-7129.
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