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Break through basketball slumps & creative blocks

Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump

Even the most motivated of us feel unmotivated at times. In fact, sometimes we get into such a slump or we hit creative rough patches that even thinking about making positive changes seems too difficult.

But it’s not hopeless: with some small steps, baby ones in fact, you can get started down the road to positive change.

Yes, I know, it seems impossible at times. You don’t feel like doing anything. I’ve been there, and in fact I still feel that way from time to time. You’re not alone. But I’ve learned a few ways to break out of a slump, and we’ll take a look at those today.

When I fall out of exercise, due to illness or injury or disruption from things going on in my life, it’s hard to get started again. I don’t even feel like thinking about it, sometimes. But I’ve always found a way to break out of that slump, and here are some things I’ve learned that have helped…

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Basketball Training System Review: SKLZ 3-in-1 Essentials Kit

The SKLZ Basketball Essentials Kit is a complete core basketball training system that comes with 3 components: lateral resistors, reaction belts, and hopz.

The lateral resistors help develop an explosive first step while increasing your side-to-side quickness for better driving, ball handling and on-ball defense. The reaction belts help increase the reaction speed and time for better man-to-man defense. This really helps you stay in front of the quickest ball handlers.

The ankle weights or “Hopz” rounds out the set and are designed to help you increase your vertical. The concept is similar to the Jumpsoles and this works extremely well with the Jump program as a complementary training aid.

Players and coaches, not only in basketball, but also in football, wrestling and tennis even, can benefit from this complete basketball training system because each of these sport requires players to ‘get low’ and use tremendous amounts of lower body strength and explosiveness. The system costs a hundred bucks on Amazon and has received strong/positive reviews from coaches, trainers and players.

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