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How to Extend Your Shooting Range (Safely)

Range is built from the ground up — literally. Players who chase range with arm strength end up with broken form. Players who build it with legs and footwork end up with a Steph-style pull-up from 28.

Step 1: Add lower-body strength

Heavy goblet squats, Bulgarian split squats, and single-leg RDLs. Range is a force problem before it's a form problem.

Step 2: Use your legs, not your arms

Same shot motion, more leg drive. If your form changes as you back up, you're cheating with your arms — and your accuracy will collapse.

Step 3: 1-foot range progression

Move back one foot per week. Make 5 in a row before moving back. Slow, brutal, but it's the only progression that holds up under fatigue.

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