Nathanael: Ladies and gentlemen,
what is going on? And welcome to another video. My name is Nathanael Morton and I am a sports
performance trainer who specifies in basketball players. And in today's video, I'm going to
answer the question do you think long distance running could help in basketball? Now remember,
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Let's get into it. So do I think long distance running can help in basketball? Yes, of course,
long distance running can help in basketball, but it depends on what you mean by long distance.
For my athletes, I say that my athletes should run one mile as fast as they can
two times per week. I made a video about this on how to improve your stamina and your endurance
for basketball. You should run a mile twice per week, you should be doing sprints twice per week,
and then some agility work twice per week. And the rest of it should come from your sport. There's no
better way to get in shape for your sport than by playing your sport, so the best way to get in
basketball shape is by playing basketball. Nathanael:
However, if you want to add some long distance running, some long distance cardio, that can help
but I wouldn't go more than one or two miles. If you're going into 5Ks, in 10Ks, and you're
running these miles and miles, that's not going to help too much with your basketball training. And
we know that if when we do studies on long distance runners like marathon runners or
ultra marathon runners, they have more slow twitch muscle fibers than regular people. So
running long distances, you start to develop slow twitch muscle fibers, because that's all
you're using when you're running for 10 minutes, 20 minutes, one hour, two hours,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, once you get into really long distance. So that's number one.
Nathanael: Number two, let's have a little bit
of story time. Believe it or not, I ran cross country in high school. So I was running long
distance in high school, cross country was my fall sport, and then my winter sport was basketball. So
I did cross country and I did basketball, never at the same time, but here's the thing, when I would
run cross country, we ran 5k races, so 3.1 miles and I was pretty fast. I could run 3.1 miles in 17
minutes. I could run a mile in under five minutes. I was pretty fast. But every single time I would
go from cross-country season into basketball, I would think I'm way ahead of these guys,
I'm already in shape, but I was not in basketball shape. There's a difference between cross-country
shape, long distance, and basketball shape. Nathanael:
So I would go to basketball and I would do the open gyms and then I would get into practice
and I would be out of breath because they're not the same types of cardio. Okay? In basketball,
you have a lot of cuts and sprints and high bursts of energy, in cross country I was just running as
fast as I can for 3.1 miles, but it was never sprinting. Okay? So they're two different types
of cardio. So yes, I do think that long distance running will help with basketball. You should do
a little bit of long distance running, like I said, one mile as fast as you can twice a week,
but the rest of it should be sprints, it should be playing basketball, then you can get into agility
work, but that is your answer. Yes, it will help but if you want to get in shape for basketball,
you need to be playing basketball. Nathanael:
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I will see you guys in the next video. Speaker 2:
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