The Yoga Push Up (Down Dog with Push Up) is an exercise we have started to use a little more recently for a handful of reasons; 👇 ☑️Promotes scapular upward rotation, which we know is big for Shoulder Health ☑️Demands eccentric control of downward rotation ☑️Anti-Extension core work ☑️Extremely Shoulder friendly pressing movement Depending on … Continue reading Yoga Push Up For Shoulder Health?

As a strength coach our first responsibility is to do our best to keep athletes healthy 🤕 ➖ an injured athlete does very little to help a team when it matters on game day. And one of the easiest ways to keep an athlete healthy is to eliminate exercises that may be potentially harmful. This … Continue reading How We Program Upper Body Pressing With Volleyball Athletes?

“Do as much as necessary, not as much as possible.” I’ve been getting a fair amount of DM’s about what one of our pre-season lifts looks like ➖and the answer is that it’s not anything overly exciting, just general and basics lifts. At this time of the year, with the high practice demands, we take … Continue reading Volleyball Training Tip Day 21: Example Pre-Season Lift

One of the biggest changes we’ve made to the strength program in the last year was adding constraint/complex both during the In-Season and Off-Season periods. In-Season, the team will lift two days a week, Monday and Wednesday. Monday’s are typically more strength oriented, but on Wednesday we will perform contrast work for greater power output … Continue reading Contrast Training With Volleyball Athletes

Happy Monday! Here are a few thoughts bouncing around in my head after a week of reading, podcasts, cruising social media and any other continuing ed. Enjoy! Simple beats complex in just about anything and everything. This includes strength training. Your habits will tell you how committed you are, what you’re focused on, what matters … Continue reading Monday Musings

One of our major focuses during the pre-season and in-season is being more consistent with lower leg health/mobility. The importance of mobility throughout the entire lower leg can not be overstated, especially when dealing with athletes that accumulate a lot of wear and tear through jumping/landing. The ankle/big toe/foot complex is the first thing to … Continue reading Lower Leg Health?

Just like every other Sunday, we have another group of podcasts and articles to read and listen to that I have dived into. Like every other week, there was a ton of content out there both in written form and through podcasts. Enjoy! Podcasts Been trying to listen to more non-strength and conditioning podcast the … Continue reading S&C Week in Review: 8/18

I get a lot of questions regarding shoulder health. The funny thing is, we don’t perform a lot of “shoulder rehab” at any point during the year. Yes, we do some external rotation exercises and some movements to promote scapular upward rotation, but the vast majority of our shoulder care comes from what I would … Continue reading Good Training = Good Shoulder Health?

This is a repost from maybe 6-8 weeks ago, but a thought that I think worth sharing again for those who didn’t see it at the time. Prepare athletes for the demands of their sport. Volleyball 🏐 is a sport that demands explosiveness, but also demands that the athlete express that power and move well … Continue reading Volleyball Performance: It’s More then Just Vertical Jumps

Here is a simple but extremely challenging combo exercise that we use as an upper body pressing movement, especially during the in-season period and spring practice period when shoulders tend to get worked a little more via volleyball🏐 ☑️ Shoulder friendly pressing ☑️ Core stability ☑️ Shoulder stability ☑️ Crossing the midline As I’ve said … Continue reading Lateral Crawl with Push Up with Volleyball Athletes?