It is important to maintain the strength that was built throughout the off-season and pre-season. This safe, time efficient and productive in-season program can takes as little as 30 minutes, twice a week. It is well worth the time investment to stay strong, injury free, and confident. In as little as 3 to 4 weeks, there can be a noticeable decrease in functional strength. That means every week that goes by without strength training, a player is getting weaker. Come playoff time, they will be physically at their weakest when they need to be at their strongest!

Your in-season program will keep you strong throughout the season!

This 16-week strength training program provides a day-by-day, safe, efficient, and productive in-season training plan for male and female players and teams of all levels. Included are dozens of digital pictures.

49 pages. 2010.

Basketball players are not Olympic lifters, track athletes, or bodybuilders, so they need not train that way. They need to train like basketball players! If a player really wants to maximize their potential on the court, they must participate in a truly comprehensive strength training program.

Bringing a professional trainer into your gym can cost up to $1,500 for one work out! Now you can get a basketball-specific, professionally designed plan from one of the top basketball trainers in the nation.

Adding strength and power will improve their explosiveness on the court. This 12-week strength and power program provides a day by day, safe, efficient, and productive off-season training plan for male and female players and teams of all levels. Included are dozens of digital full color pictures.

Alan Stein delivers a complete workout plan for your program. This saves you time, research and money in developing your own.

For more information on off-season training, see Off-Season Workouts for a Championship Basketball Program

67 pages. 2010.

In order to maximize potential on the basketball court, players must be in great shape. More specifically, they need to be in great basketball shape. The days of just playing pick-up at the gym to get ready for the season are over. It is important to participate in a truly comprehensive training program in order to improve performance on the court.

Your pre-season program will lay the foundation for this season!

This 8-week strength & conditioning program provides a day-by-day, safe, efficient, and productive pre-season training plan for male and female players and teams of all levels. Coach Stein has included dozens of full color digital pictures to give you a clear understanding of each drill.

58 pages. 2010.

"Pride+" is an acronym for: Promoting your Program, Raising Funds, Improving as a Coach, Dealing with People and Effective Practices. The + is a chapter devoted to "Tips from the Top," which includes contribution from 20 successful coaches on a number of coaching topics. This book covers all the time-consuming but necessary responsibilities, tasks, situations and issues that a coach or athletic administrator confronts on a near-daily basis. You will find the nuts and bolts, hands-on practical information that coaches and administrators need to run a well-rounded, efficient, and successful program. One of the goals of PRIDE+ is to free up coaches and administrators to work on the core areas of their jobs. For coaches, this means more time for player development, team execution, X's and O's, strategy and tactics, practice organization, scouting, and game preparation. Regardless of your sport or level of competition, if your problem or question falls into our acronym, we offer dozens of choices and alternatives. Not only does the book provide information and save time, but we also feel it will help you to head off issues before they escalate into bitter confrontations. PRIDE+ A Coach's Handbook is a book that can definitely help coaches with their individual programs and administrators with their overall multi-sport programs.

101 pages. 2004.

The Phoenix Suns' Steve Nash shines in running the break, but how do his teammates know where to go to get open to receive his passes? Orlando's Dwight Howard is a tremendous talent in the post, but how has he improved and added new dimensions to his game? And how is it that Utah's Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer run the screen-and-roll as smoothly as Jazz legends John Stockton and Karl Malone did years before?

Now NBA Coaches Playbook takes you into the practice sessions and sideline huddles with detailed Xs and Os and more from the game's best at maximizing performance on the court. Let the likes of Phil Jackson, Mike D'Antoni, Avery Johnson, Stan Van Gundy, George Karl, Eddie Jordan, Mike Dunleavy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and many other head and assistant coaches provide you with new insights to benefit your own team and individual players.

345 pages. 2008