Get what you want by doing what you must. Examine the habit implementation approach of James Clear (Atomic Habits). Our actions "vote" for the person we wish to become. Writers write, readers read, and volleyball players play volleyball.
Goal: craft a contributing role this season on MVB
System: work out and build skill
The 4 Laws:
- Make it obvious
- Make it easy
- Make it attractive
- Make it rewarding
Darren Hardy, author of The Compound Effect, reminds readers that "winners are trackers."
Make it obvious.
The nine pound dumbbells sit in front of the fireplace, reminding me they need use. They aren't going to lift themselves. Put a volleyball in an obvious place in your room.
Make it easy.
Don't expect to have a 30 inch vertical jump overnight. Clear discusses a friend who lost weight by going the gym. For weeks, he literally drove to the gym and only exercised for FIVE minutes. Then he ramped his program. The issue was establishing the habit. ESTABLISH a habit and then improve it. Do two lunges with each leg, 30 seconds of pogos, and 3 'step ups' onto your stairs. Great you've started. Build from there using exercises from the videos you've watched and studied here.
Review some of the 'volleyball at home' exercises possible or go online to YouTube and enter "at home volleyball drills" and start doing them. "Repetitions make reputations."
Make it attractive.
Use your program to grow team relationships. Workout with a friend. Have a 'Zoom' call or Facetime or whatever you do to workout with multiple teammates. Enjoy the socialization and the workout as a group. Increase the number of reps, the amount of weight, and the number of sets.
Make it rewarding.
Mark an 'X' on the calendar for every day you complete workouts. Track your vertical touch and measures of fitness that work for you. Visualize going to tryouts in August and being 'seen'.
Last year Sadie Jaggers changed positions from middle to outside. It wasn't magic. She worked out for months to improve her jumping and strength. She played. And then her work got "paid" with performance and recognition, just as her teammates Elena Soukos and Gia Vlajkovic did. It wasn't a "one-off," an accident.
Lagniappe. Everyone needs to learn to set.
Lagniappe 2.
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— Hoop Herald (@TheHoopHerald) January 25, 2024
It’s not always about the points you score
There is much more that goes into a basketball game
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