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Is basketball training on concrete bad

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Everyone knows that most regular basketball courts have wooden floors and plastic courts, while many outdoor basketball courts, due to economic costs and environmental limitations, generally use cement flooring as the basketball court. This is the case for many middle and high schools.
Due to its rough surface and hard texture, the cushioning effect of cement ground is very poor. If you exercise directly on concrete ground, the knee's load-bearing capacity is quite large. Basketball, on the other hand, is an intense sport where grabbing rebounds or shooting requires a jump before landing. In the absence of any conditions on the ground to mitigate this impact force, the impact force on the knee is close to complete.
Over time, the cartilage in the knee is prone to injury, and more seriously, there may be knee water accumulation. If you accidentally fall during exercise due to excessive intensity, the knee is often injured, and it is easy to suffer from fractures and other injuries.

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Playing basketball is a very common way of exercising. In daily life, common basketball courts can be roughly divided into three types: flooring, plastic, and cement. Playing on different courts can have different impacts on the knees of the body. So, what kind of injury does playing basketball on a concrete court cause to the knees?
For amateur basketball enthusiasts, due to time, location, and even economic constraints, cement basketball courts are often the first choice. However, research has found that this type of court causes the greatest damage to the knee joint.
By comparison, cement flooring does not have the shock-absorbing effect of plastic or flooring. Therefore, even if people wear the most professional basketball shoes, they cannot avoid injury. The harm it causes to the body is similar to the principle that running on a treadmill will wear down the knee joint more than running on a plastic flooring. Due to this drawback, it will directly affect the meniscus of the knee joint, causing it to be compressed and worn out during every joint movement.

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Secondly, the surface of the cement floor is relatively rough, making it difficult to fully adhere to the soles of the players' shoes. This weakens the anti slip effect of the sneakers to a certain extent. Once a player loses their balance during sports or intense competition, it can easily cause damage to their knee joint ligaments, contusions, or even fractures. Such soft tissue injuries are often more dangerous than fractures. This is because once the ligaments of the body are damaged, they cannot be self repaired through physical therapy, and can only be repaired through minimally invasive surgery under arthroscopy. In addition, the hardness of cement courts is relatively stronger compared to other courts. Once a player accidentally falls, the consequences can be even more serious, ranging from minor external abrasions to severe fractures.
Therefore, when players decide to play on a concrete basketball court, they should prepare knee pads instead of waiting until they are injured to remember the necessary protection. Before each appearance, it is best to do more than 20 minutes of warm-up exercises. It should be noted that the warm-up here is not simply about shooting and sweating, but rather a large amount of stretching to activate muscles, so that the knee joints and even other joints of the body can be effectively protected.
Through the above brief introduction, I believe everyone has a preliminary understanding of this issue. In daily life, basketball enthusiasts should also do more leg training to enhance their muscle strength, so that during exercise, the muscles can help the joints exert force, reduce joint burden, and achieve better protection of the knee joint

Is basketball training on concrete bad

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Grizzlies player Jia Morant is considered the top seed for this season's Rookie of the Year. This second place pick has averaged 17.7 points, 7 assists, and 3.5 rebounds per game in the past 49 games, with a shooting percentage of 49.5%. He has led the Grizzlies to the top eight again after many years and has a strong momentum of making it to the playoffs. However, due to the injury of top pick Zion, who has been sidelined for half of the season, second place pick Barrett's statistics and record cannot be compared to Morant's. Therefore, this year's Best Rookie Award should be able to end the suspense early.
I remember when Morant first entered the NBA, a reporter asked him who his idol was. The young man said a very crazy sentence: "I come from the bottom, I don't have an idol, everyone wears shoes the same, there's no need to be afraid of anyone." The last rookie to be so "arrogant" was probably Allen Iverson, right? In terms of strength, Morant does have the capital to speak like this, but what's the point of him coming from the bottom?
In high school, Morant was only 1.70 meters tall and had difficulty dunking. At that time, not many people paid attention to him. However, after entering college, Morant's height skyrocketed to 1.9 meters, and in terms of physique, he already had the height of an NBA point guard. During his freshman year, Morant averaged 12.7 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 6.3 assists per game, all of which were average. However, in his sophomore year, he surprisingly averaged 24.5 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 10 assists per game, becoming the first player in NCAA history to average more than 20 points and 10 assists per game!
Morant was born in South Carolina, USA. His family situation was very ordinary, not difficult, but indeed not wealthy. Morant's training in front of Cheng is particularly hard and difficult because his training conditions are really poor.

The following is a video of Morant practicing basketball during his high school years. In order to train his shooting height and curvature, Morant's mother stood on the bench as a defensive player.

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My father, on the other hand, was responsible for defending Morant with a shield to train his combat skills. Sharp eyed friends may have noticed that the place where Morant trains is not a field, but a small piece of concrete. Only a small path under the basket was paved with cement, while other areas were still dirt roads.
Morant practiced on the concrete ground like this, and his whole family was his sparring partner. And the prop he used to train his physical fitness also looks very "shabby", which is a broken truck tire on the roadside. Morant practices the "step test" on this tire to exercise his cardiovascular function and physical fitness.
It was in this environment that Morant grew from 1.70 meters to 1.91 meters and successfully entered Murray State University, becoming an NCAA player.

During his high school years, Morant briefly played as teammates with Zion, but he was unremarkable and the scouts watching from the sidelines didn't even glance at him. Imagine if you were Morant, 1.70 meters tall, and everyone said you had no talent, could you still persist in training like this every day? If Morant had given up basketball at that time, even if he grew up to 2 meters, it would have been useless, but fortunately this young man persisted.

Is basketball training on concrete bad