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Message: [QUOTE="CocoHusky, post: 2441758, member: 5823"] I don't know the specifics of UCONN's conditioning test. There are a few things I'm struggling to get across: 1) The normal exercise you describe or AAU pickup games is not going to get you to pass a UCONN conditioning test. 2) The only way to prepare for the test is to do the prescribed at home works out. 3) The test is given before you are allowed to start basketball practices. 4) Failure to pass the test is not necessarily the end of the world but it does put you behind because when your teammates are learning basketball related things like defense and offense you are probably working on conditioning. You are behind by not passing the test. I am only familiar with the conditioning test that my Daughter had to pass each year again before the start of official practices. One year it was a timed 2.5 mile run on the track I forget what the required time was but I know that the Guards got less time to complete it than post player. One year is was a time sprint 6 4 6 X3 each completed in under 2 minutes. With a rest of 30 seconds between each. Kate Fagan describes the drill in this article. [URL="http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/8724140/women-college-basketball-basketball-players-fear-workout"]Fagan: Basketball players fear The Workout[/URL] One year is was a 3.5 mile timed cross country run designed to have as many up hill climbs as possible. Vivian stringer at Rutgers does something somebody call Stations of the Cross because it was designed to inflict maximum punish with puking buckets provided. [/QUOTE]

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