{"id":1212,"date":"2013-10-03T10:47:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T09:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2013-10-03T10:47:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T09:47:48","slug":"practice-plan-initial-mental-and-physical-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/03\/practice-plan-initial-mental-and-physical-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice Plan: Initial Mental and Physical Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is from early in my second season coaching the University of Exeter women.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Priorities:<\/strong> Physically and mentally demanding session to quickly get players back into serious training mode after the try-out and selection process, start establishing team mentality<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Training time:<\/strong> 1.5 hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Space:<\/strong> 1 court<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Players:<\/strong> 16<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– – – The Plan – – –<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Initial Warm-up:<\/strong> I had the team do a dynamic warm-up to start, knowing it was going to be a physical practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ball-handling warm-up:<\/strong> I then had the players pair up and do a bit of passing and light pepper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serving warm-up:<\/strong> I had them partner up across the net. They started at about half-court just serving the ball back and forth with a focus on good mechanics. As they felt warm they backed up until they got to the point of doing full court serving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Target serving:<\/strong> I had them do around-the-world serving where they had to get a good serve into each zone 1-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serving and passing:<\/strong> I used the Get-2 passing drill<\/a> as a fast-moving serve\/pass exercise with a goal of 32 good passes. Overpasses were -1 and balls hitting the floor with no effort on them sent the count back to 0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Position Hitting:<\/strong> In groups of 3 on both sides of the court, I had the players pass a free ball then hit, with the rest on ball collection and feeding duty. I then had the middles spend time running quicks. Using the small groups kept the tempo high for those in the drill, forcing them to do a lot of movement, transition, and jumping in a relatively short window of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense:<\/strong> To really push the players mentally and physically, I had them go through the Continuous Cross-Court Digging drill<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team play:<\/strong> I finished up with Winners 4s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– – – Observations – – –<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Although the group had already gone through the selection and try-out process, there was still the question of player commitment in some cases. Along with wanting to quickly get training at a high, demanding tempo and intensity to facilitate some needed conditioning work, I was looking to expose any potential commitment cracks. In other words, I wanted to encourage any who might be inclined to quit to do it now rather than in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a volleyball training plan used at the outset of a new session to quickly get players mentally and physically back into flow and expose any potential cracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[331,435],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-volleyball-practice-plans","tag-volleyball-training-plan","tag-volleyball-practice-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}