Practice Plan: 12 players, game-oriented
Here is a practice I ran with a college team that shifted a recent mainly technical focus to a mainly game competition one.
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Sample Volleyball Practice Plans
Training Plan: Small group, getting them back to work
Here's my first day of practice back session for the Medaille College men's team. It was a small group and I had three focus points.
Three short practices
As a covering coach I ran three shortish practice sessions for a group of 15-and-under girls. Here are the plans I used for those three sessions.
A 1-hour practice plan
One day in practice we had an hour, half of which we wanted to devote to 6 v 6 game play. Here's the practice plan we developed.
Training Plan: 11 players, just games
This training session uses cooperative games to warm-up, then moves to small-sided competitive games. The main idea is to get lots of game-like touches.
Training Plan: Toughness, Passing, Court Work
The sample volleyball training session features work on mental toughness and physical conditioning as well as passer identification and team positional work
Practice Plan: Initial Mental and Physical Challenge
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.
Training Plan: First practice back
This is a practice plan used for the first training session of a new season in a situation where the team's first match was just a few days later.