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How to Warm-Up Your Shoulder For Volleyball Practice
How to Warm-Up Your Shoulder for Volleyball Practice Written by Jill Wosmek, MA, ATC USA Women’s Volleyball At times, athletes can feel...
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- Dec 9, 2013
The Incredible Visual Skills of Ronaldo
For those of you who have attended our volleyball clinics for coaches, you have heard us say that “Volleyball is a visual skill with an...
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- Dec 30, 2012
Quite a Stretch
For those of you who have attended one of our volleyball clinics, you will know that we discuss what a waste of time stretching is during...
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- Sep 23, 2012
Fitness for Club Volleyball
Here is a common question we get, voiced in an email from a clinic attendee. “I’d like to get an opinion from you. I’m concerned about...
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- Aug 21, 2012
Preventing Shoulder Injury
This is the second post to address common volleyball injuries. The first post addressed patella tendonitis or “jumper’s knee.” PS…thanks...
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- May 9, 2012
Jumper’s Knee
We have had several requests for a blog post that address common volleyball injuries. So I spoke with Blain Empey, an athletic trainer...
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- Jan 11, 2012
Priorities
With the seemingly unending tasks that face us as coaches, it’s easy to get our priorities out of order. Two major areas that compete...
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- Mar 23, 2011
Stretching: The Truth
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS in THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: October 31, 2008 WHEN DUANE KNUDSON, a professor of kinesiology at California...
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- Feb 21, 2011
Stretching?
Luka Slabe, our friend from Slovenia, has sent us this article about stretching. Naturally we love it, which is what Luka said when he...
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- Jan 25, 2011
Initial Ability
This was an interesting graph that was put out not too long ago regarding the 2010-11 NFL “final four”. While the article is about hiring...
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- Jan 20, 2009
Mind vs Matter
There is a great article at The Science of Sport blog about physiological strength, mental strength and the role the two play in sports...
