Are your players mentally or physically fatigued by training?
Mental training is at least as important as physical training. Are your players at least as mentally fatigued after practices as they are physically tired?
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Mental training is at least as important as physical training. Are your players at least as mentally fatigued after practices as they are physically tired?
Not a good week, unfortunately, as we lost our first league home match of the season, then lost a tough one on the road on the weekend.
Do you feel the need to constantly be changing up the drills you do in training? That might actually be making things worse, not better.
Can you and should you use the same games and drills across different levels of skill, age, etc.? This is a question which recently came up.
A recent article on the subject of volleyball practice planning offers some interesting ideas for future training plan development.
Illness and injury took its toll on training numbers this week, making it hard to have sessions where team play could be practiced.
We suffered our second loss in a very tight match against Danish opposition. It helped highlight some developmental needs in defense and transition.
Guest players at training was a fairly regular occurrence when I coached in Sweden. There are different types, though, each with their own considerations.
The reaction of my perfectionist players in a defensive drill once reminded me of one of the reasons I like to push the training tempo.