In a landscape that is densely populated with training ideas, techniques and programs, Tim McClellan provides essential exercises and drills for athletes who want to take their volleyball game to next level during the off-season.

McClellan shares his vast knowledge of power and strength training in this versatile video that athletes and coaches of all skill levels will find extremely useful. He starts with the warm-up, which covers not only exercises to warm up muscles and loosen joints, but also includes training that will activate the nervous system to prepare your body for action. Mobilities (active stretching) are demonstrated as an improvement over static stretching.

McClellan reminds us that the goal of every strengthening program should be to prevent injury. The video covers many different injury prevention exercises using a wide variety of easily acquired tools. The two main parts of the injury prevention focuses on the shoulder area and the lower body, specifically the ACL. Since the sport of volleyball is plyometric in nature, several different plyo exercises are presented, both low level and high level.

In addition to covering all the major muscle groups, sport- and position-specific training is also covered. Athletes looking to improve their attacking, blocking, setting, or defensive skills will not be disappointed. With more than 50 different exercises, this well-rounded video will have all levels of athletes prepared to hit the court.

McClellan uses volleyball players from different levels and varying positions to explain and demonstrate how to execute each drill and exercise, while discussing the importance of each step of the program from warm-up to cool down. He explains how to use many of the tools and apparatuses you see in many of today's gyms. This includes, but is not limited to, agility ladders, free weights, jump boxes, mini hurdles, surgical tubing (for resistance training) and more.

This video will benefit both the coach looking for exercises and drills related to off-season strength and conditioning and the player who may be looking to prevent injury and strengthen their body for the upcoming season.

Often coaches, from novices to experts, search the sea of information looking for proper conditioning drills and exercises. This DVD proves to be an invaluable source of many fundamental drills and exercises that will help prevent injury while increasing the strength and power of the female volleyball athlete. Don't train without it!

2012.

In this DVD from the 2011 AVCA Coaching Conference, Matt McShane discusses how to identify the biggest mistakes your players make during game play and give verbal cues during the game to correct them.

Coach McShane's philosophy is to have the players in game-like situations as much as possible. He shows how to help individual players to correct their mistakes at game speed, which will help you make the most of every practice.

The game of volleyball is complex with your players constantly reading other players and reacting to their moves. An error is often an incorrect response to a cue. Teaching your players to identify cues during a game will help to cut down on errors. If a player is struggling, McShane shows how you can break down the drill in order to focus on just one part of a move until he is confident. Once a player understands the move, put him right back into team play.

McShane really brings home the importance of practice and the role of the coach in practice. He explains and shows how the coach should monitor the play of each player on the court and to identify the biggest mistakes. He shows how to correct a player during a 6-on-6 game and then how to take that player out of the game play to give him individual help.

Learn how to provide as many game-like situations in practice, which translates into more rally points in a game.

2012.

Volleyball coach and youth trainer extraordinaire Ruth Nelson explains how she teaches parents to work with their kids in this video shot on-location at the 2011 AVCA convention in San Antonio. Coach Nelson works with a group of 7 year-old girls and their parents instructing them in a positive and creative way so that all can learn proper habits on the court.

Learning proper habits on the court at such a young age allows players to develop faster and retain more as they continue down the path to becoming a volleyball player. The parent involvement in this process is key. The parents must know and understand the proper habits and techniques as well so that they can teach and give correct cues to encourage their young ones to play the ball correctly.

Nelson shows a variety of drills that teach different volleyball skills. She starts the drills with tennis balls, progresses to a soft bigger ball, then a green soft ball the size of a volleyball and finally a real volleyball. She has created a practice system for the girls but tries to introduce new drills that build on ones they have already done. Nelson keeps the practice fun with agility drills that incorporate many different moves, including jump roping and doing cartwheels. Many of the drills are done on one side of the court to keep the girls close to each other, and the parents are on the court and included in every drill.

The end result is parent and player forming a positive bond and everyone, parent and player alike, becoming a better volleyball player.

Nelson has laid the groundwork to start kids early in the game of volleyball. She shows a system where she is able to teach 5-10 year olds all the skills needed to develop into successful athletes and volleyball players. This video is an excellent look at a wonderful way to develop youth volleyball players, encourage parent involvement with their children and promote the game of volleyball.

55 minutes. 2012.

Learn how to improve hitting by improving technique, rather than starting over with a new method.

This video focuses on teaching proper technique and body position in order for players to become moreeffective hitters. Coach Cao begins with a very effective progressive warm-up that prepares the whole body for the high demands of hitting. The video includes proper hand placement on the ball, moves on to good arm position before contact and takes athletes through all types of footwork patterns.

Throughout the video you will find a series of drills that will help your athletes effectively hit line, cross-court and angle shots from all three hitting positions.

Cao Ping's presentation at the 2011 AVCA Convention is a great guide for coaches to teach proper technique and body position in order for players to become more effective hitters.

Serve receive, defense and middle hitting transition footwork are also introduced.

Cao Ping's clinic is a wonderful tool to teach the basic building blocks for hitting success.

2012.

Teach your blockers to attack the offense!

In this 2011 AVCA convention presentation, Nabil Mardini thoroughly breaks down the mechanics and timing of swing blocking from the ground up, using on-court players as models.

Beginning with footwork, Coach Mardini explains ideal foot and body positioning during the push and crossover steps, while detailing how to read the path of the attacker. Mardini then covers proper hand and elbow positioning during the base, armswing and press phases of the block. Mardini points out common reasons that blockers "float" or get "tooled," and how to address them.

Bringing passers and setters to the court, Mardini explains how to adjust blocking technique based on the pass, and gives a tempo-based eye sequence that will help your players get to the block balanced and on time. Mardini wraps up the instruction by taking the players through three blocking drills and provides insight into how you can make your drills game-like.

Coach Mardini's thorough explanation of the swing blocking technique will help your blockers to be more aggressive to the ball, get more height and penetration, and increase their number of quality touches at the net!

57 minutes. 2012.