{"id":65297,"date":"2013-12-06T23:10:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T23:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=65297"},"modified":"2013-12-07T02:01:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T02:01:45","slug":"stronger-team-how-to-strengthen-your-ankles-for-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/stronger-team-how-to-strengthen-your-ankles-for-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Stronger Team: How to Strengthen Your Ankles for Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HEADER-STRONGERTEAM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65301\" alt=\"HEADER-STRONGERTEAM\" src=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HEADER-STRONGERTEAM.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rU0mdhVzjJA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Everything a basketball player does on the court starts at their feet and who better than Alan Stein of Stronger Team to give you some tips on how to strengthen your ankles before you come across a Kyrie Irving or Jamal Crawford that wants to punish all 26 bones and 20 muscles in your feet. \u00a0Actually, you don\u2019t even have to come across an ankle breaker to suffer an ankle injury considering ankle injuries are the most common in basketball.<\/p>\n<p>So check out the video above and be on the lookout for more strength and conditioning tips and vids from the Stronger Team crew on Ballislife. \u00a0It might prevent you from appearing in a video like this one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xuSG5cSG7eM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/StrongerTeam\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65300\" alt=\"FOOTER-STRONGERTEAM\" src=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/FOOTER-STRONGERTEAM.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything a basketball player does on the court starts at their feet and who better than Alan Stein&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,1425,23],"tags":[],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-65297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-blogs","category-training-2","category-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - 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