Basketball Body and Mind

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"Basketball, Body and Mind" is a podcast that is dedicated to youth basketball players.  Each episode will provide  practical strategies for basketball skills, body and/or mind for performance on the court.

  1. 3日前

    Ep. 29 | What If Your Best Path Is Not Basketball | with Chris Ryan

    Send us Fan Mail The hard truth about basketball dreams is that effort is only part of the equation. If you’re six feet tall, the NBA path looks different than it does for a 6'7" athlete, and pretending otherwise can waste years of training. We sit down with Chris Ryan, former Division I track and field athlete and longtime coach, to get honest about genetics, consistency, and what “success” should really mean for youth basketball players, parents, and coaches. We also dig into the modern recruiting world: NIL money, the transfer portal, older Division I rosters, and why you have to think like a pro even before you get recruited. Chris shares practical recruiting advice for international athletes and U.S. players alike, including how to email coaches with clear measurables and why SAT/ACT scores can be a competitive advantage, not an afterthought. Then we go deep on basketball strength and conditioning. If your program relies on long, slow runs on hard surfaces, we explain why that can crush explosiveness and beat up tall athletes’ knees, ankles, and spine. We talk track-inspired training, CNS intent, ankle stiffness, acceleration and deceleration, and low-impact conditioning options like assault bikes and pool work. We close with performance tests that matter, including vertical jump and broad jump, and why sticking the landing can signal durability. Subscribe for more Basketball Body And Mind, share this with a teammate or parent, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. Find out more about Chris Ryan: https://chrisryanfitness.com/ Need more information about Youth Strength and Conditioning Online? Visit https://balticmove.net/

    1 小時 19 分鐘

  2. 4月11日

    Ep. 28.5 | Strength Coach and Head Coach Communication | with Georgios Dedas

    Send us Fan Mail We keep going with Georgios Dedas and get specific about how elite programs use strength and conditioning to protect intensity, reduce injuries, and peak at the end of the season. We also finish with fast, blunt advice for young players and parents on what actually helps someone reach the pro level.  • building trust between head coach and strength coach through consistency and honesty  • planning weekly and seasonal load to keep the team fresh for playoffs  • using practice structure to manage contact, intensity, and decision-making under fatigue  • defining clear strength coach responsibilities in warm-ups, weight room, and time control  • tracking minutes and avoiding long stretches that kill intensity  • avoiding tactical conversations with players and staying in your role  • coordinating with physios and medical staff for injury prevention and recovery  • using simple load tracking like player 1 to 10 practice ratings  • talent versus hard work and mental strength at the pro level  • balancing one-on-one defense skills with team defensive tactics  • parents reducing pressure and avoiding sideline coaching in the social media era  • reaching George through Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgiosdedas/ If you got something from this episode, share it with the player, share it with the parent, share it with the coach who needs to hear that because this is the best way to support us. But for now, keep training basketball, body and mind.

    37 分鐘

  3. 4月8日

    Ep. 28 | Earn Your Minutes On The Court | with Georgios Dedas

    Send us Fan Mail We talk with Georgios Dadas about the unglamorous truth behind playing time, from being left off road trips to building a 17 year pro career through readiness. We share coaching lessons from Europe on why nobody can promise you minutes and what actually earns trust when the level gets serious.  • life and work in Lithuania during the COVID season and why strong club culture matters  • how a late developer can still reach pro basketball through steady growth  • staying ready when you are not in the rotation through lifting and individual work  • why opportunity shows up without warning and how to avoid wasting it  • sacrifices that matter most including summers, recovery, sleep and food choices  • why winning comes first in pro teams and what that means for youth development  • real Rytas examples of young players earning roles through defense and discipline  • what young call-ups struggle with most: physicality, anxiety and tactics  • the simplest way to earn trust: energy, full-court defense and doing your job  Subscribe so you don't miss the part two.

    49 分鐘

  4. 3月30日

    Can You Make It to Pro? The Honest Truth Nobody Tells You

    Send us Fan Mail Stan tackles the most common question he receives from young players: can I make it to pro? Rather than giving the typical answers — either crushing the dream or offering empty motivation — he breaks down what "professional basketball" actually means across Europe, where over 500 clubs pay players to play. He walks through salary realities from EuroLeague level down to second and third divisions, shares stories of players like P.J. Tucker, Mike James, and Alvaro Cardenas who took unconventional paths, and explains what truly separates those who make it: habits, coachability, extreme ownership, and years of consistency. He also covers the role of physical development and injury risk reduction, and closes with a powerful message — even if basketball doesn't become your career, the discipline and habits you build through the pursuit will guarantee success in whatever path you choose. "Pro" doesn't just mean NBA or EuroLeague — there are over 500 professional clubs across Europe where players earn a living playing basketball, from top divisions down to second and third leagues.Judging your chances at age 13–16 is meaningless — bodies develop at different rates, growth spurts change everything, and nobody can predict who will have the grit to keep going.P.J. Tucker got waived after 83 minutes in his NBA rookie season, spent five years overseas grinding through Israel, Ukraine, Greece, Italy, and Germany, then came back to the NBA at 27 and played for another 14 years.Mike James, currently one of the top scorers in EuroLeague history, was playing in the third-highest league in Greece or Italy at age 23–24 after college.Alvaro Cardenas was never selected for any Spain youth national team, stands 186cm, and eventually earned a call-up to the senior men's national team through relentless work.Talent gets you noticed — habits keep you in the league. Sleep, nutrition, studying the game, extra work outside practice, and doing it for years is what separates those who make it.Make your coach's life easier — learn every play for every position, take ownership, ask your coach what to work on. Coaches trust and give minutes to players who make their job simpler.Focus only on what you can control: effort, attitude, how you eat, sleep, recover, and how you respond to setbacks. Everything else — genetics, height, coach decisions, politics — let it go.Even if you don't become a pro, the discipline, work ethic, consistency, and mental toughness you build through this pursuit will transfer to every area of life. Success is guaranteed if you commit to the process.Episode with Alvaro: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3lWZxGYrFGUPyeldpX4mpX?si=f15d41397a7e4b7e For more information check www.balticmove.net or connect with me on Instagram @Balticmove

    48 分鐘

  5. 3月20日

    Ep. 27 | Develop Youth Basketball Players the Right Way | Beau De Maesschalck

    Send us Fan Mail Stan speaks with Beau De Maesschalck, strength and conditioning coach in Belgium and physical preparation coach for the Belgian 3x3 national team. The conversation focuses on physical development priorities for youth basketball players, covering movement quality, core stability, sprint mechanics, and how to approach the weight room at different stages of development. Beau explains how his academy manages training load during growth spurts, when and how to introduce more demanding strength and power work, and how conditioning testing is used not as a pass-fail measure but as a tool to guide individualized development. The episode also explores talent identification — what eight years of data has taught Beau about which players progress and why — and why motivation to improve is often a stronger indicator than raw physical ability. KEY TAKEAWAYS Start with movement quality, not load. At 13–14, the priority is teaching athletes how to squat, hinge, lunge, and control their body — in the weight room and on the court. Adding weight before movement quality is established is counterproductive.Core training is not just abs. Core work should include hips and shoulders, progress from floor-based stability to standing dynamic exercises, and include contact and reaction elements that transfer to what happens on the basketball court.Sprint mechanics work does not need to be perfect — it just needs to happen. Simple resistance band work in pairs can meaningfully improve first-step quickness and acceleration, even without perfect technique.Growth spurts require load management, not rest. When a player is in a growth spurt, reduce impact and high-load basketball sessions. Replace them with lower-load movement and injury prevention work, not complete rest.Strength before power. For most youth athletes, the limiting factor is not power or explosiveness — it is basic strength. Getting stronger in foundational movements like squats and RDLs will often improve vertical jump and speed without any specific power training.Conditioning tests guide training, not just fitness rankings. Lactate threshold testing helps identify whether a player's aerobic base is limiting their ability to recover between sessions. That information shapes the off-court conditioning work given to individual players.Talent identification is about rate of development, not status at one age. A player who is good at 14 but stops progressing is at greater risk of plateauing. A player who improves consistently across basketball skill, physical capacity, and mentality over multiple years has a stronger indicator of potential.The clearest sign of a player who can make it: you have to slow them down. Players who consistently want to do more, ask questions, and push beyond what is asked of them stand out over time — more than those who are simply physically gifted.Follow Beau on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/beau_dm/ For more information check www.balticmove.net or connect with me on Instagram @Balticmove

    54 分鐘

  6. 3月2日

    Youth Basketball AMA: Always Tired, Recovery From Injury, “Going Pro” Meaning

    Send us Fan Mail In this AMA episode, we address four critical topics in youth basketball development: chronic fatigue, mental recovery after injury, what it truly means to pursue a professional career, and the reality behind 6 a.m. workouts. The episode explains how sleep, weekly load, strength levels, and blood markers influence tiredness, how players can separate identity from availability during injury, and why professional habits matter more than outcome goals. It also provides practical decision-making guidance for parents and players trying to balance ambition with health and long-term growth. Key Takeaways Fatigue is not weakness — it is feedback about sleep, load, conditioning, or nutrition.If you are not sleeping 8.5–9+ hours consistently, you cannot evaluate your fatigue honestly.Weekly load must match recovery capacity — you can either reduce load or improve recovery.Low aerobic base or low strength levels can make games feel harder than necessary.Blood work (especially iron and vitamin D) can explain unexplained fatigue.Injury removes availability, not identity — stay involved and continue progressing in other areas.Professional habits (sleep, nutrition, strength training, film study) must exist before the contract.6 a.m. workouts only make sense if sleep, load, strength training, and recovery are already in place.Chasing outcomes (contracts) is less effective than building daily professional behaviors.For more information check www.balticmove.net  or connect with me on Instagram @Balticmove

    48 分鐘

  7. 2月21日

    Basketball Specific Movements In Weightroom? Do We Really Need That?

    Send us Fan Mail This episode breaks down a big training question for players, parents, and coaches: should the weight room look like basketball? Stan explains why “sport-specific” training isn’t about what an exercise looks like, but what it improves underneath (strength, eccentric control, acceleration/deceleration, and capacity). You’ll learn the difference between basketball skills (solutions like crossovers and step-backs) and movement patterns (building blocks like stopping, pushing, landing), plus a practical 3-bucket model to separate training types, avoid overloading the same patterns, and improve transfer to the court while staying healthier long-term. Key takeaways (bullets) “Specific” training isn’t about looking like basketball — visual similarity can be misleading.Loading basketball moves (weighted vest, bands, barbell step-backs) can change angles, timing, and coordination, which may reduce transfer.Repeating one “game move” over and over often misses the real limiter (example: space creation might be limited by deceleration, not the move itself).Deceleration/braking is a key separator skill (step-backs, jump stops, pull-ups, closeouts) and can be trained without copying the exact basketball move.The same movement pattern can show up in many skills — improving the pattern can support multiple outcomes (not just one move).One basketball skill can be executed with different solutions depending on strength, mobility, fatigue, and processing speed.If you do too much high-intensity skill work, you become limited by recovery — quality beats quantity.Change of direction (pre-planned) and agility (reaction-based) aren’t identical; training one doesn’t automatically improve the other.The 3-bucket theory helps organize training and prevent “overfilling” the same stress:Bucket 1: basketball practice (decision-making, perception, opponents)Bucket 2: no-ball movement work (mechanics, landing, decel/accel patterns)Bucket 3: weight room (strength, relative strength, eccentric control, power) For more information check www.balticmove.net or connect with me on Instagram @Balticmove

    45 分鐘

  8. 2月10日

    Ep. 26 | From Kobe’s Mindset To Youth Development | Tim DiFrancesco

    Send us Fan Mail Tim DiFrancesco shares what he learned working with Kobe Bryant and NBA players—and how those lessons translate to youth basketball. The conversation focuses on attention and presence (“be where your feet are”), building habits in the other 23 hours of the day, and why inviting failure is essential for growth. The episode also covers youth development realities (most won’t go pro), the role of coaches as teachers, screen-time as a performance dampener, and practical strength & conditioning principles by age group—especially how to introduce resistance training safely and progressively. If this conversation helped you, tap follow, share it with a teammate or parent, and leave a quick review so more players and coaches can find it. 8 Things Coaching Kobe Bryant Taught Me about Commitment, Outworking the Competition, the Mamba Mentality, and More: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/8-things-coaching-kobe-bryant-taught-me-about-commitment/id1603012439?i=1000553903174 Follow Tim: https://www.instagram.com/tdathletesedge/

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關於

"Basketball, Body and Mind" is a podcast that is dedicated to youth basketball players.  Each episode will provide  practical strategies for basketball skills, body and/or mind for performance on the court.

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  • 創作者
    Stan
  • 活躍年份
    2024年 - 2026年
  • 單集
    53
  • 分級
    兒童不宜
  • 版權
    © 2026 Basketball Body and Mind
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    Basketball Body and Mind

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