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Playing against zone defense
Playing against zone defense
This rule is more crucial against the zone because offensive players tend to stand around more when playing against a zone defense. If the zone shifts quickly from one pass to another, offensive players may want to use pass fakes to force the zone to shift without the pass. If the ball is passed quickly—quicker than the zone defenders can move—offensive players will be open for shots.
Introducing Junkyard Sports
Introducing Junkyard Sports
Junkyard sports are “real” sports and games played with the “wrong” equipment. CONCEPT AND PURPOSE OF JUNKYARD SPORTS The concept we’re calling junkyard sports is as ancient as sport itself. The inventiveness begins when people play the sports in some unusual place with some wacky piece of equipment that has nothing to do with how the sports are supposed to be played, and then they mix these sports with other sports.
Monitoring training is critical for success
Monitoring training is critical for success
Monitoring training allows you to reconcile what was planned for training and what was achieved. Monitoring training will allow you to maintain control of the training process and ensure a proactive adaptive response. Perhaps the simplest and most effective means of monitoring training is a detailed training log.
Communication vital for team success
Communication vital for team success
I encourage players to initiate coach-player conferences with me as I will with them. I try to help players learn to communicate with teammates, coaches, teachers, parents, and members of the community. Assistant Coaches’ Roles I view my coaching staff as a team, just as the players are a team.
How to keep score in bowling
How to keep score in bowling
The score is then added from frame to frame and recorded on the bottom of the frame. To determine the score for the frame, add the number of pins knocked down for that frame. Once you finish bowling, calculate your average score for the session by adding up your total game score (add the total scores for all the games you bowled), then divide that total by the number of games you bowled.
Properly administer a youth strength training program
Properly administer a youth strength training program
We discuss the value of physical activity and introduce the children to proper exercise technique, training guidelines, and safety procedures. This approach provides a method of teaching strength-training exercises while assessing knowledge, performance, social behaviors, and motivation. Although the amount of weight that participants use for these lifts will vary depending on their body size and strength-training experience, exercise technique checklists can be used for improving exercise ...
Regular cholesterol screenings a must for adults
Regular cholesterol screenings a must for adults
So you can have a low total cholesterol level and still have some risk if your HDL is low. You should know all three numbers (total cholesterol, LDL, and HDL), as well as your cholesterol to HDL ratio. But elevated triglycerides may be a risk factor for CAD when cholesterol levels are low.
Secrets to building and sustaining high-level motivation
Secrets to building and sustaining high-level motivation
Naturally, individual-sport athletes and team-sport athletes have different perspectives on group work. Motivation will become hamstrung if an athlete’s primary reason for hard work becomes extrinsic rewards. The intrinsic reward of getting to know your athletes this well makes it surprisingly easy, before long, to recall individual motivation styles and provide cues, feedback, and expectations accordingly.
6 important considerations before implementing a youth strength training program
6 important considerations before implementing a youth strength training program
Considering a youth strength training program? Youth should genuinely appreciate the benefits and risks associated with strength training, and teachers and coaches should have a solid understanding of strength-training principles. Participants should precede strength training with dynamic warm-up activities and end each workout with cool-down stretching.
Planning for volleyball season: off-season
Planning for volleyball season: off-season
”High school players, who usually play a fall season, either play another sport or play junior club ball after the volleyball season is finished. If a high school coach does not coach his own athletes during the off-season, it is important for that coach to confer with his players after the school season is complete. Some high school coaches give players summer workout schedules, rely on captain practices, or encourage their players to cross-train or play in summer leagues.
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