Should Girls Basketball Players Participate in Strength Training?

As a sophomore in high school, my assistant coach introduced me to strength training. At the time I was all skin and bones and strength was not something I had much of. As a matter of fact, because I could not lift much, they begin to call me Weakie. That nick name stuck with me all throughout my high school career. So it should not be a basketball that I could not even lift the bar in bench pressing. I don't know why but we did not have any other strength training after that during my career in high school.

So, I did not get back into the weight room until my freshman year of college. And again strength was not something I had much of and was yet again reduced to bench pressing dumb bells. However, I did learn that basketball body strength did exist. Squatting was not as much of an issue like bench pressing. I was extremely proud of myself when I was able to squat my body weight.

Entering as a freshman into the college game, I was at a disadvantage not being as strong as a lot of my teammates nor competition. Would continuing on a strength training program in high school have helped me? Sure it would have. Just like adequate agility and speed training would have helped also.

There is a lot of debate on whether girls should lift weights and how early they should lift weights. Because of my experience in high school of not being on a continuous strength training program, I was a little hesitant to recommend strength training to high school players. However, because of my experience of being one of the weakest players on the team, I know I would have benefited from strength training before entering college.

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