The Official Workout Thread

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by FETCHER.

Literally couldn't have answered that better myself. What do I call you? Kitteh haha. Anyway, as kitty said you don't need protein powders, they're only to help if you find it hard to eat foods rich in protein (like a vegetarian for example, because they cannot eat meat). If you snack on little things like various types of nuts you might not even need to change your diet much at all

Kitteh/Kitty I like them both haha

[Key]

Was going to do some hot yoga this morning, didn't work out.

Was instead going to do the treadmill for a half hour, didn't work out.

One of those days, I'll start back up tomorrow morning.

[LoathsomePete]

Really starting to like the feeling after 30 minutes on a treadmill, even though I still don't like running on them, I can powerwalk at a high setting with a steep incline to get similar effects. I want to give my arms a break today so I may try for an hour on one.

[Key]

^I like it too. I don't like running on them either, so I just do it at a fast pace just to get my pulse going.

[Key]

I went ahead and pushed myself to do 30 minutes on the treadmill while listening to Epicloud. It went by super fast. Never realized how good of workout music Townsend is.

[Snoopydoopy]

I love the eliptical. Youcan go hardcore on it qndget a crazy workout

[FETCHER.]

Didn't know a more appropriate thread for this, but does anyone know any reputable handball/volleyball sites for skills and drills? I need to write up a lesson plan and teach it to my class currently I'm using a ****ty grainy book with awful diagrams.

[hip hop bunny hop]

^^^ no, sorry.

If you're doing this for college, you should try hitting up the relevant coach at your or a near-by college.

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by FETCHER.

Didn't know a more appropriate thread for this, but does anyone know any reputable handball/volleyball sites for skills and drills? I need to write up a lesson plan and teach it to my class currently I'm using a ****ty grainy book with awful diagrams.

I don't know if this is any good cos I know nothing about volleyball but something I just got off bb.com:

Bodybuilding.com - Strength & Conditioning Tips & Drills For Volleyball.

There is other stuff there but mostly to do with lifting weight with volleyball in mind so lots of lunges and stuff which I am assuming is not what you want.

I found this too:

Volleyball Coaching - 300+ Volleyball Drills and Session Plans

[ThePhanastasio]

Originally Posted by FETCHER.

Didn't know a more appropriate thread for this, but does anyone know any reputable handball/volleyball sites for skills and drills? I need to write up a lesson plan and teach it to my class currently I'm using a ****ty grainy book with awful diagrams.

I don't know if this helps at all, but my volleyball coach's father-in-law was a coach for a Division I volleyball program, and he made us do ridiculous drills and conditioning.

Conditioning:

Electric chairs; Leg lifts; Planks (3 minutes); One-arm planks (hand behind the back; sixty seconds); Suicides (You've probably run these before. In a basketball gym, it's baseline to freethrow line, back, baseline to three point line, back, baseline to half court, back, baseline to opposite three point line, back, baseline to opposite free throw line, back, baseline to opposite baseline, back.) Snakes (football field. Start at the left side of the end zone, and run to the ten yard line, then run right across the field to the opposite side to the twenty yard line, then opposite side...and so on. Ten yard increments. You have to get to the opposite endzone, then DECREASE from the "ninety yard line" and back with ten yard increments, then back. It sucks.)

Basically snakes are:

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For actual skills, we had to run up to the net, spike a ball lobbed to us, then run a lap around the gym before going to the back of the line. Basically, we'd almost be ready to spike again by the time we finished our lap. This also sucked.

We also had to stand across the gym from our partner, and volley back and forth without getting into the pair next to our territory. If we did knock it askew into the other pair's territory, we had to run three laps.

Our serving exercise was ridiculous. We had to serve thirty serves rapid fire, with a coach or teammates tossing the ball to us to serve. If more than ten were out, we got to run.