Female: Kim Zalinger Fort Hays State University NCAA Division Two volleyball. Early in my career, I learned the importance of putting in extra individual practices time. My sophomore year I was not playing consistently. I determined that the only way to get extra playing time was to put in atleast one hour before my practice started. Since I was in outside hitter I thought it would be very important to go to practice early and work on my hitting skills and my power. Within 4 weeks I saw results and I started the rest of my college career.
Male: When to practice your individual workouts well that can be done any time. You can do it at 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning or 7:00 in the morning when you can get a gym for ice time. Some of the greatest ice skater in the history of the world have had take their ice time that 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning because the ice skating rings get rented out to the public during the day. They do this for decades to become the greatest to the world, may be you can get an hour an hour of practicing before school or go running and get some extra miles and for training before hand.
You can lift weights before school or after school you can lift in the evening. Do not waste time watching video games or TV until you done your workouts and until you have done your school work that is valuable time in fact it is invaluable time that you do not want to flush away for rerun of some TV show. Keep in mind the old couching philosophy that players are made during the off season teams are made during the season.
Now couches do not have time for individual practice for players or to work with players one on one during the regular season too often, so you have to find a way to be the first on the floor last out the door. All you have to do is come up with 15 to 30 minutes extra practice time at the beginning and at the end of each practice for you to be successful. A perfect example of practicing 15 minutes extra before team practice and 15 minutes after team practice everyday is Peter Vidmar.
Peter Vidmar is the first American during the Olympic gold medal in gymnastics three years before the 1984 Olympics Peter Vidmar recognizes that he was placing inconsistently in world competition, Peter knew that if he wanted to win a medal at the Olympics he had to make a change. He decided to start showing up at practice 15 minutes before team practice was required and just stay atleast 15 minutes after the last player not the team but the last player had left the practice site when you break this down what you will find is that in one years time practicing just 6 days a week in gaining in additional 30 minutes a day Peter Vidmar was getting a full practice session in extra every week atleast to have a 3 hours.
That is an additional 52 practice days every year and he did it for three years leading up to the 84 Olympics. Well sure enough when the Olympics came Peter was prepared in his level of performance had become equal to his level of consistency. Peter Vidmar when on to win the Olympic gold medal by 10th’s of one point because he understood the definition of a player first on the floor last out of the door.
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