Marie Zidek, assistant volleyball coach at University at Buffalo, shares an interesting statistic at the beginning of this presentation: Most volleyball injuries occur in the first 20 percent of a deceleration movement. So when you strike the ball for a serve or spike, you’re most likely to hurt yourself right after the ball leaves your hand.
In this video, Zidek shares ways that coaches can help their athletes strengthen their bodies so they’re less injury prone. She covers several key points:
• Jumping, which extends the ankles, knees and hips
• Spine rotation
• Shoulder stability and warmups
• Dynamic warmups
• Multi-purpose dynamic stretches
• Single-leg exercises
• Hand-eye and foot-eye coordination
• Circuit training with volleyball-specific movements for the end of practice
• Agility exercises
• Competitive sport performance training drills
• Explosive exercises
