How to Improve Volleyball Game without a Ball

by Milton Volleyball Research Staff

Sometimes, a volleyball player has time for training, but he/she doesn’t have a ball. Nevertheless, athletes shouldn’t fall into despair if they find themselves in this type of situation one day. A solution exists and volleyball players can continue to improve their skills.

There are two types of training for volleyball players. It’s important to know that athletes can do volleyball training either with a ball or without a ball.

Athletes don’t necessarily need to do only training with a ball in order to get better at the game. Keep in mind that it’s possible to improve the game of volleyball even if you choose to train without a ball.

The big question is – what volleyball players need to do in order to improve their game without a ball. In fact, a volleyball player can improve the game without a ball in a number of different ways.

Today, we’ll dig deeper into this topic and give you the insights into volleyball training without a ball. Also, we’ll give tips that volleyball players need to follow in order to greatly improve their game without a ball.

So, let’s get started.

Watching Videos of Volleyball Matches

Watching the videos of volleyball games is very useful activity. Actually, it’s something that volleyball players need to do on a regular basis.

While watching the videos of games, you will be able to see strong and weak sides of other volleyball players.

You will analyze what other volleyball athletes can do well and which aspects of their game need to be improved. Doing this type of analytical work helps volleyball players improve their skills and boost their success on the court.

Improving Communication between Volleyball Players

Communication is the key to volleyball team’s success. The way a volleyball player communicates with other team members means a lot for his/her team success.

Communicate with your teammates in a good manner and always try your best to improve your communication skills.

It’s crucial for volleyball players to be friends, support and understand each other very well on the court and outside of the court. It goes without saying that volleyball players should always treat each other with respect.

Remember that every player is a part of a volleyball team. Each volleyball player should always communicate with other athletes and coaches in a good manner. So, treat your teammates and coaches in the way you want to be treated.

Improving Strength and Conditioning

Volleyball players need to get the type of training that makes it possible for them to improve strength and conditioning. There are many drills for improving strength and conditioning. There are drills with and without a ball.

The question is – what type of training without a ball athletes need to get in order to be able to improve strength and condition for volleyball? Let’s get the answer right now.

In fact, there are many things athletes can do to improve strength and conditioning without a ball.

It makes a lot of sense for volleyball players to focus on training that makes it possible for them to strengthen their legs. It’s worth noting that many leg strengthening exercises don’t need a ball at all.

Volleyball players can do squats, leg band anterior reach, altitude drops, side V-Ups, medicine ball throw down and many other exercises. Doing this type of exercises allows athletes to strengthen legs and maximize the power that they need for the game of volleyball. As a result, they will be able to move faster and perform much better on the court.

There are many other strength exercises that volleyball players can add to their training program. For example, there are many good strength exercises with lunge. These include side-to-side twist with overhead press, lunge with a twist as well as lateral lunge with press.

You can also do a variety of strength exercises with dumbbells including good mornings, dumbbell snatch, dumbbell pullover, dumbbell squat to press, biceps over press and others.

Bear in mind that doing strength exercises with weights can dangerous for volleyball players. Doing these types of exercises may result in injuries that negatively affect athlete’s sport career and, therefore, injuries.

If the injury happens an athlete has to make a pause. It may take a volleyball athlete too much time to recover from different types of volleyball injuries and come back to the court.

While recovering from injuries, volleyball players can’t attend games and practices. Without a doubt, this negatively affects volleyball player’s performance and success.

And of course, it’s incredibly important for volleyball players to prevent these kinds of things from happening. That’s why volleyball players should always do weight exercises in the gym under the control of a professional. So, doing strength exercises with dumbbells and lunge has to be carefully supervised by an expert.

Doing Volleyball Drills for Improving Footwork

If you don’t have a ball at the moment but would like to get some kind of volleyball training, you can focus on improving your footwork. You need to know that many volleyball drills for improving footwork can be done without a ball. Among volleyball drills for footwork that you can do without a ball are: running jump ropes, stair jumping, lateral hop and hold and so on.

Increasing Endurance for Volleyball

Volleyball players should be able to perform well on the court during the game from the beginning until the end. It’s fair to say that performance of volleyball athletes depend a lot on their endurance. That’s why it’s so important for volleyball athletes to do every single thing possible to increase endurance for volleyball.

In fact, running is the type of physical activity that has many great benefits for athletes. Running is known for being one of the best ways to boost endurance for volleyball and many other sports. That’s the reason why so many athletes prefer to run on a regular basis.

It’s a good idea to start a day with running. If volleyball players run in the morning on a regular basis, they will be able to increase their endurance and, therefore, perform much better on the court over time. It’s also important to note that running is the type of training that you can do without a ball.

Improving a Vertical Jump for Volleyball

A high vertical jump is incredibly important for volleyball players. A volleyball player should jump high in order to be able to do blocking and prevent the opposing team’s attack from happening.

The higher a volleyball player jumps – the better. So, volleyball players should constantly work hard and try their best to improve their vertical jump.

Actually, there are many exercises that volleyball players can do to jump higher. It’s interesting to know that the vast majority of volleyball exercises that you can do to improve your vertical jump. These include standing vertical jumps, box jumps, jump squats, depth jumps, shock jumps and others. Actually, this list could go on and on.

Using Mental Imagery Technique

Mental imagery (also known as visualization) is a part of mental volleyball training. You don’t need to have a ball in order to be able to take advantage of visualization.

It’s pretty easy to get started with mental imagery. First of all, you should find a quiet place where you will be able to do visualization. Then, you need to close your eyes and start visualizing.

When visualizing the game of volleyball, you should imagine how you will serve the ball, set the ball, dive to prevent the ball from landing on the court, hit the ball, block the ball, make a pass to your teammates, etc. Imagine how you watch your teammates, the ball and opponents. And of course, you should always imagine good income of the game.

Working on Mistakes

Volleyball players should always try to learn lessons from their mistakes. It’s the type of volleyball training that doesn’t require the ball.

First of all, athletes need to understand what mistakes they make during games and practices and the reason why they make these mistakes. Plus, they have to do everything possible to correct these mistakes and get better in the future.

It’s worth noting that this type of analytical work allows volleyball players to avoid mistakes and improve their game dramatically.

 

Thank you so much for reading this article. As you can see, there are many ways to improve the game of volleyball without a ball. No matter whether you are training with or without a ball, do your best to get the most out of your efforts. Best of luck!