Coach Your Brains Out

Competing in practice

What it means to be a competitor

Trash Talk

What you can control

Challenge vs Threat

Training and Trusting Mindsets

Coach Your Brains Out: The Art and Science of Coaching Volleyball

The Inner Knight: Train and Compete Like a Champion

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-What a Texas practice looks like

-What to do when practice falls short of the team's standards

-How they prepared for the national title match

-Communication between staff and their roles

Coach Your Brains Out: The Art and Science of Coaching Volleyball

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-Coaching beach

-Beach vs Indoor specialization

-The culture at Texas

-What made them successful

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-Training through an ecological lens

-Volleyball training: how to jump higher, hit harder, move better

-Traditional weight room workouts vs sport context specific 

-Program timing and frequency

-The most important qualities of a strength coach

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-Training agility by adding noise

-Representative training and developing "real" agility

-What is skill?

- 4 categories of noise: environment, athlete, tactical, and equipment

-The importance of decision making in training

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-Applying mental skills in practice and competition

-What has led to Pitt's success

-Mental case studies: 

• Lack of motivation
• Perfectionists
• Resist making changes
• Nervous before competition
• Aren't acting like themselves

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-How Bernie's work has changed the program and culture

-Team and individual values

-Applying mental skills in practice and competition

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• 0:44 - What Kasey has been working with in the off season with his players.
• 6:17 - Introducing Rob and how he has worked with the UMBC staff and team.
• 7:58 - Describing “action capacity”, and how it can fit into the context of sports.
• 14:19 - What are the best ways/exercises to achieve action capacity in the category of jumping?
• 18:46 - Andy’s thoughts on implementing action capacity values when training.
• 21:34 - How Kasey and Rob have implemented action capacity with athletes they have worked with.
• 24:51 - What would the volleyball equivalent of the NFL combine look like?

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The Inner Knight: Train and Compete Like a Champion

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Coach Your Brains Out: The Art and Science of Coaching Volleyball

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• 1:15 - Karch’s thoughts on using an ecological approach at the professional/national team level.
• 3:44 - Players’ response to the “Goldilocks” style of exaggerating the two extremes to find the middle ground that works for them.
• 5:29 - At the national team level, has Karch found that there are variabilities in play style?
• 9:34 - Has Karch ever thought to experiment with using environmental constraints that naturally come with playing outdoor volleyball in practice for the national team?
• 12:35 - What should the coach’s role be in the development of youth players?
• 14:54 - Competitive games that John and Karch have come up with when all the courts at the beach are in use.
• 19:16 - Competitive games that Karch has come up with for when his players are tired and worn out.

Coach Your Brains Out: The Art and Science of Coaching Volleyball

The Inner Knight: Train and Compete Like a Champion

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