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Introduction
By making your training units more diverse, you can increase the players’ motivation, since you consistently offer new approaches to improve and refine familiar movement sequences. In this book, you will find inspiring exercises you can apply during each phase of your everyday team handball training – from warm-up and goalkeeper warm-up shooting to the common contents of the main phase and the closing games. Each exercise is illustrated and described in an easy, comprehensible manner. Specific notes give you tips on what you need to be aware of.
This book deals with the following key subjects:
Warm-up:
- Basic warm-up
- Short warm-up games
- Sprint contests
- Coordination
- Ball familiarization
- Goalkeeper warm-up shooting
Basic exercises, basic play, and target play:
- Offense/series of shots
- General offense
- Fast throw-off
- 1st and 2nd wave
- Defensive action
- Closing games
- Endurance
At the end of this book, you will find an entire methodological training unit. The objective of this training unit is to improve shooting and quick decision-making under pressure.
This reference book contains 75 individual exercises.
Sample figure:
Dynamic group piston movement
1st English edition released on 28 Mar 2016
German original edition released on 19 Feb 2015
Published by DV Concept
Editors, Design and Layout: Jörg Madinger, Elke Lackner
Proofreading and English translation: Nina-Maria Nahlenz
ISBN: 978-3-95641-084-0
The book and its contents are protected by copyright. No reprinting, photomechanical reproduction, storing or processing in electronic systems without the publisher’s written permission.
Key
Difficulty level
Easy:
Medium:
Difficult:
1. Basic warm-up
No. 1 Team pursuit
Topic: General warm-up
Minimum number of players: 8
Difficulty level:
Equipment required: Sufficient number of handballs
Basic setting:
- Divide the team into groups of 4 or 5 players and determine the leader of each group.
Course:
- The groups move freely across the court.
- The leader runs ahead and shows exercises. The other players follow and copy the leader’s exercises (A).
- If two groups meet and the leaders exchange high fives, the following players need to switch their leaders. They must react immediately and copy the new leader’s exercises.
- Once the coach whistles, another player becomes the leader and must show exercises at once.
- And so on.
Variant:
- Each player has a handball.
No. 2 Warm-up with the ball and easy shooting at the goal
Topic: General warm-up
Minimum number of players: 6
Difficulty level:
Equipment required: One handball per player
Course:
- The players