PTST Testing for Basketball Players
Prime Time Sports Training has come up with a battery of
tests for young basketball players. This will compliment the basketball coaches on finding talent and help prepare the players for the future. We have come up with some standard tests to find out their strengths and areas for improvement as an athlete. We will not only test the players, but also teach them the techniques we use with our collegiate and professional athletes. The tests are common in basketball and measure speed, agility, and power.
The standing broad jump
- Measures lower body power
- Correlates with sprinting speed
- Looking for the distance of the jump and not the height
Vertical Jump
- This test also measures lower body power
- In this exercise we are for the maximum height from a static start
T-Test
- Measures athletes ability to change direction (forward/backward, lateral)
- Movement in multiple directions
Lane Agility Test
- Measures the athletes the athletes body control
- This test also measures ability to change direction and start and stop quickly
¾ Court Sprint
- Measures the athletes ability to accelerate ¾ of the court
- Measures
athletes speed at a distance common for the game of basketball