Books, Sports, Other Team Sports, Volleyball

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Gary Mack, David Casstevens
Mind Gym : An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
by McGraw-Hill (Paperback)

Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, noted sport psychology consultant Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." These 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes will help you gain the "head edge" over the competition.

Bonnie Kenny, Cindy Gregory
Volleyball: Steps to Success
by Human Kinetics Publishers (Paperback)

Cover the court with confidence by mastering the essentials of the game. Volleyball: Steps to Success offers a comprehensive, progressive approach with a proven system for learning, expert instruction, crisp illustrations, and 60 drills to improve play on both sides of the net. Volleyball: Steps to Success establishes a solid foundation by detailing proper footwork and posture before moving on to the individual skills of serving, passing, setting, attacking, blocking, and digging. Recent changes in the game, such as the addition of the libero position and rally scoring, are highlighted in the team-oriented steps covering offense, defense, transitioning, and out-of-system play. The carefully selected drills and step-by-step instruction speed the development process, and the scoring system for each drill and step helps gauge progress along the way. Aces, kills, blocks, digs, and assists are at your fingertips. With Volleyball: Steps to Success, part of the popular Steps to ...

The Volleyball Coaching Bible
by Human Kinetics Publishers (Paperback)

Never before has such an impressive group of successful volleyball coaches shared their insights, instruction, and strategies in a single book. The Volleyball Coaching Bible is your guide to championship-winning performances year after year. The 24 contributors make up a "who’s who" list of volleyball experts, spanning five decades and covering every aspect of the game. Doug Beal Mary Wise Russ Rose John Cook Paula Weishoff Pete Waite Jim Coleman Bill Neville Mary Jo Peppler Mike Hebert Al Scates Terry Pettit Steve Shondell John Dunning Tom Pingel Rudy Suwara Taras Liskevych Teri Clemens Peter Hanson Jona Braden Dave Shondell Fred Sturm Mark Pavlik Jim Stone Each time you open this book you’ll learn something new and useful for your next practice, game, or season, be it conditioning, teaching, motivating, or scouting. The Volleyball Coaching Bible provides the game plan for a ...

Joel Dearing
Volleyball Fundamentals (Sports Fundamentals Series)
by Human Kinetics Publishers (Paperback)

Be a competitor on the court in no time at all! In Volleyball Fundamentals you learn by doing. Sequential instructions accompanying photographs will guide you to perform the essential skills and tactics of the game: * Serving * Receiving * Setting * Attacking * Blocking * Digging In addition to mastering the basics, you’ll be challenged to expand your repertoire of skills and to use those newly acquired techniques and tactics for competitive advantage. More than XX gamelike activities and drills will speed your learning and improve your performance. Volleyball Fundamentals gives you a better way to learn the basics in less time. With this book, you’ll be making a winning spike instead of just studying about it.

Peggy E. Martin
101 Volleyball Drills
by Coaches Choice Books (Paperback)

This remarkable book includes over 100 drills covering all aspects of volleyball play, including: warm-up, setting, serve and serve-receive, passing and digging, attacking, blocking, combination and transition, six-on-six, and more. Nearly 100 diagrams make understanding and implementing these drills quick and easy.

Coaching Youth Volleyball (Coaching Youth Sports)
by Human Kinetics Publishers (Paperback)

Fun, safety, and effective instruction are the focus of the fourth edition of Coaching Youth Volleyball, helping you create an environment that promotes learning, cultivates a love of the game, and motivates your athletes to come out year after year. Numerous coaching books present the skills and drills of volleyball. But here's a book that teaches you how to convey those skills to your athletes in an engaging and positive manner. Coaching Youth Volleyball's focus on teaching volleyball skills through gamelike drills sets it apart from the current lineup of volleyball coaching books. And it's the only one recommended by and written with the expertise of USA Volleyball's Coaching Education Department. Ideal for coaches of players aged 14 and under, the fourth edition includes 18 drills and 32 coaching tips that are sure to jump-start your practices. This new edition also adds two new chapters on coaching individual volleyball skills and coaching the ...

American Volleyball Coaches Association
Volleyball Skills & Drills
by Human Kinetics Publishers (Paperback)

Master volleyball’s key techniques and elevate performance in all facets of the sport. Volleyball Skills & Drills teaches the fundamentals and contains the proper progressions to help players master and apply those skills on the court when it counts. Featuring 90 of the sport’s best drills, this guide will maximize both the rate and quality of learning to help players and coaches get the most out of each practice session. Developed by the American Volleyball Coaches Association, this book includes an introduction by Taras Liskevych and chapters from 10 of the game’s top coaches on the topics they know best: Paul Arrington: Practicing Sean Byron: Setting Don Hardin: Blocking Jim McLaughlin: Attacking Marilyn Nolen: Receiving Serves Penn State assistants with Russ Rose: Playing Defense Tom Peterson: Serving Joan Powell: Digging Joe Sagula: Playing Offense Stephanie Schleuder: Transitioning Volleyball Skills & Drills is both the perfect in-season coaching ...

Robert G. Price
The Ultimate Guide To Weight Training For Volleyball (Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Volleyball) (Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Volleyball) ... Guide to Weight Training for Volleyball)
by Sportsworkout.com (Paperback)

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Volleyball is the most comprehensive and up-to-date volleyball-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round volleyball-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.No other volleyball book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have you serving with a higher velocity and overall effectiveness. Volleyball players of all skill levels will be able to leap higher, shift quicker, and flat-out play better due to an increase in overall strength and agility. Your spikes, kills, and blocks will all become shaper and more effective and your stamina and endurance will allow you to keep the intensity up until the final point in every match.Both beginners and ...

Allen E. Scates, Mike Linn, Vince Kowalick, Al Scates
Complete Conditioning for Volleyball (Complete Conditioning, 9)
by Human Kinetics Publishers (Paperback)

Get in top volleyball shape by using the same training approach used by the powerhouse UCLA teams! Complete Conditioning for Volleyball—written by the Bruins’ legendary coach, Al Scates, and St. Louis University’s strength and conditioning coach, Mike Linn—will have you serving with more power and consistency, skying higher on every jump, and covering the court with increased quickness and agility. Both a workout manual for players and a training guide for coaches, Complete Conditioning for Volleyball does more than tell you what you should do; it explains and shows you how to do it. Drills and exercises are presented in diagrams and photos and described in detail. In-season and off-season programs include a wide range of on-and off-court activities that prepare players to perform to their potential. For the past four decades, Coach Scates has set the standard for success in collegiate volleyball, netting 18 NCAA Division I championships. In Complete ...

The American Volleyball Coaches Association
Coaching Volleyball
by McGraw-Hill (Paperback)

The most complete and indispensable collection of volleyball writings available. Coaching Volleyball, a unique reference tool for coaches of one of the world's fastest growing sports, touches on every aspect of the game. Never before has so much information by so many renowned volleyball authorities been collected in one volume. Includes articles from Terry Liskevych, PhD, former head coach, U.S. women's national team; Marilyn Nolen, head coach, Saint Louis University and former U.S. women's national team member; Doug Beal, PhD, head coach, 1984 U.S. men's Olympic gold medal team and current head coach of the U.S. men's national team; and Geri Polvino, PhD, head coach, Eastern Kentucky, University and certified FIVB instructor.

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