1. ARE YOU DEVELOPING STRONGER AND FASTER VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS?

2. HOW TO CREATE A DOMINATING PROGRAM

3. HOW TO COACH A NERVOUS TEAM

4. HOW TO WIN TONIGHT

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1. ARE YOU DEVELOPING STRONGER AND FASTER VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS?

No matter how experienced you are, you'd probably agree that you'd get better results if you had a deeper pool of knowledge in terms of strength and conditioning for volleyball.

It's easy to keep doing the workouts and conditioning programs you've always done.

You're probably even getting some results, so you don't have any anxiety in the back of your mind leading you to desire change.

BUT, if you want to develop stronger, faster athletes who don't get injured, you need to do a better job with your strength/power training.

(If you coach high school athletes and you're not focusing on improving strength and power at least twice per week all season, your program automatically gets a failing grade.)

Maybe you work in a State of the Art facility. You can still get better results. Maybe you work in a junk high school weight room or don't have access to one at all.

You still have options. And when you act on them, you'll be surprised at the results you can get.

So what do you do?

Download Volleyball Strength and Conditioning Program

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2. HOW TO CREATE A DOMINATING PROGRAM

Are you a college volleyball coach that needs to win more games? Or do you coach high school and would like to know what you need to do to have a successful program?

Check out my latest article on the keys to creating a dominating college program.

A few tips from the article...

As a coach, when you’re going to find a position, be the interviewer not the interviewee. Ask them what they can do to help you. Also, what scholarships do they have available. Find out how they can support you. You need to know if they can give you the tools to be good. You need to know what their goals are.

Find your horses. The horses are young players that will typically start for you for 3 or 4 years and carry your program along. Doesn’t matter what position. Ideally it’s your setter. You got to get at least 2. They’ll help you recruit other people in.

If you’re taking over a program that isn’t good, find winners. You need a base of winners. Keep the winners you got and train them. Get rid of all the others that aren’t.

Follow the link for more important tips on creating a successful college or high school program.

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3. HOW TO COACH A NERVOUS TEAM

After watching our team get nervous and completely forget how to hit (we rarely had the ball in position in front of our hitting shoulder)...

I came up with a few observations.

1. In practice the coach must continually keep his/her players at a technical standard - don't allow them to do it incorrect.

2. You must ingrain into your players the idea of playing to win no matter what the situation - practice, game, weak competition, stronger competition, etc.

3. Good serving can control your opponent.

4. If you allow your players to be whiny and weak AT ANYTIME during practice... they will be weak and whiny ALL THE TIME when the pressure is on.

5. Every player has within her/him the ability to focus completely on a goal: Your job as a coach is to say “you have no other option”.

6. If you don’t push good athletes… they will get bored and will think that you don’t know what you’re doing (they might be right).

7. You as a coach must take responsibility during practice. The players must take responsibility during the game. Great teams do not have practice players or game players. They have players that play all the time.

Whenever competition rears its head, your players must be ready to play to win. They must feel no remorse for their opponents because they understand that by beating someone else you only help them. You must stop practice whenever the vibration of pity, weakness, or laziness enters.

The vibration must be stopped at the point of awareness. Players must know the truth and what is expected of them. They must be pushed to achieve what they are not sure that they can do themselves.

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4. HOW TO WIN TONIGHT

The following are my thoughts on what I think my young inexperienced team needs to do to win tonight.

1. 100 percent focus all the time.

2. Be ready for a fight.

3. Defense and coverage intensity.

4. Serving short.

5. Keep your cool.

6. No complaining or whining. Take what you get and do something with it (better the ball).

7. Don’t be surprised when we do well (volleyball isn’t rocket science).