Mental Toughness Training for Volleyball: Maximizing Technical and Mental Mechanics

by Mike Voight

Goes beyond conditioning and the X’s and O’s to reveal an overlooked but equally critical element to playing sound volleyball—the mental game. Offers coaches at any level of play the tools they need to overcome performance barriers and enhance their mental and emotional toughness. Introduces numerous concepts, including mental mechanics, performance barriers, expanding player capacities, mechanical breakdowns, automaticity of performance and mental-skills training strategies.

182 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2005

Reviews

[Matt Jones]

This book has some decent information, but most of it is either intuitively obvious for anyone with experience in team sports, or more effectively addressed by other sources.

The first sections, in which different execution errors and player tendencies are described, are structures without purpose. They help in identifying horribly frustrating tendencies, but do very little to talk about how to remedy each .

The most useful section deals with practice preparation - ways to create situations in which players can develop the mental skills previously discussed.

Overall this can be helpful, but the subject is better handled by "Volleyball Cybernetics" (Kellner, Cross)