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Which plays a bigger role in basketball: strength or conditioning?

Strength plays a bigger role in basketball than conditioning, as it allows for more contact and helps with vertical movements. However, both are important for success.
 
Transcript: "Hey, Brett, your question, which plays a bigger role in basketball strength or conditioning. So, this is a highly debated question. Often in the NBA to me. You need a conditioning base to be successful. But the bigger to me, the bigger role playing aspect is the strength training strength, allows you to do a little bit more, the battling, the hitting the body, contacts, the stopping and going. I think, I think people realize that the difference between football and basketball is the huge vertical component that often happens. So the strength component of Landing absorbing to me that plays a bigger role conditioning is a huge part of basketball, but there's a lot of stopping and guns is a lot of stops. There's a lot of whistles, a lot of fouls play often stops. So if your strength is there, you can have you little more successful than if your conditioning, you look at these Weekend Warriors, they doubt their Are and and play. And the first thing they see is that they're out of breath and stuff. So yeah, their conditioning is bad, but they still play because they have some strength, you know, it is a, it is tricky and it's a closed and you need both. But if you'd ask me again, Brett, I would say strength training."
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Bryan Doo

Strength & Conditioning Coach
Hey, Brett, your question, which plays a bigger role in basketball strength or conditioning. So, this is a highly debated question. Often in the NBA to me. You need a conditioning base to be successful. But the bigger to me, the bigger role playing aspect is the strength training strength, allows you to do a little bit more, the battling, the hitting the body, contacts, the stopping and going. I think, I think people realize that the difference between football and basketball is the huge vertical component that often happens. So the strength component of Landing absorbing to me that plays a bigger role conditioning is a huge part of basketball, but there's a lot of stopping and guns is a lot of stops. There's a lot of whistles, a lot of fouls play often stops. So if your strength is there, you can have you little more successful than if your conditioning, you look at these Weekend Warriors, they doubt their Are and and play. And the first thing they see is that they're out of breath and stuff. So yeah, their conditioning is bad, but they still play because they have some strength, you know, it is a, it is tricky and it's a closed and you need both. But if you'd ask me again, Brett, I would say strength training.
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Jess Racz

WNBA Performance Coach
Hey Brett, you need both. You need to be able to be conditioned enough to not be a liability on offense, but especially on defense. So you need to be conditioned and then you also do need strength, as you know, even point guards who you the exception of like someone like Trey young but most of the point guards and guards and post players are getting way bigger. And they're able to use their leverage incredibly. Well, they're able to handle contact, they're able to guard someone like on a pick-and-roll guards or able to now guard post players and not get crushed. And so but then you need to be in shape. So it's understanding rather. Yes, we need both, but it's went Implement that. And so during the offseason, if competition isn't what I'm working on. It's like I need to prioritize my strength and my power. And all those qualities that we need, my deceleration, my acceleration, my reactive strength, my contract, and relax ability like all those little qualities. I can really like dive into during the offseason and maybe not do too much conditioning. And then, once I need to start getting in shape for conditioning, I'm prioritizing conditioning like preseason like pre pre season. I'm going to start to ramp up my conditioning. The problem happens when we're trying to maintain everything all year round and Trying to get better at everything all year round rather than like having time to focus on each especially during the offseason. Like kids don't need to be running that much. They need to prioritize strength and getting stronger, and then we can like Implement that. But you see all the time that these coaches are like making them run so much and then they're trying to also do strength training and get stronger. And it's like we're trying to chase two chickens and we're never going to catch any. So I say that all the time. Chase two chickens, you catch none and so So we should be focused on. Okay, what's the priority right now? And then we'll have our answer of what that balance is, but it shouldn't always be 50/50.