We have already seen in a previous article (“How to use the numbers?”) how you can combine the numbers collected during scoutizzazione to get the appropriate valuation parameters to our athletes.
These parameters will be the basis for choosing the objectives of the training and individual exercises within a session. Se, for example, we notice a negative trend in reception positivity in our team, we can decide to focus a series of training sessions on this fundamental.
If you have a historical archive with data from the current season (and possibly those from the past season) on the reception positivity of our athletes it will certainly be possible to obtain an average reception positivity level for each player. This will serve as a starting point for choosing individual exercise objectives.
It is indicated in the columns of the graph above, for each player the average reception positivity (divided by jump and float serve). The black hatching can represent a goal to be achieved in training, being placed at a level approximately equal to 10% more than the average value.
An aspect to always take into consideration is to divide the numbers according to the situations. It will therefore be very important to always keep the data relating to the reception of the float serve separate from that of the jump serve.
If we plan exercises with a pair of receivers we will also have to simulate the positions that the pair assumes during the match; for example if the libero and a spiker who plays far from the setter will do the exercise, much more time will have to be invested in training the situation in which the spiker receives on the left and the libero on the right (as this situation will be repeated in the match 5 turn up 6), and much less with the positions reversed. Also in this case, specific objectives can be identified for each working couple which derive from the annual average.
If the reference parameter is positivity, the proposed exercises will be aimed at improving the technical gesture (for example in reception bending the knees correctly, external rotation of the shoulders,…). The more the gesture will be technically correct, the more effective it will be for achieving the result (for example a precise reception on the dribbler's head).
If, however, the parameter to work on is efficiency (for example the ball-changing attack), the proposed exercises will be of the scoring type, with attention focused on the final outcome of the action and not so much on the quality of the technical gesture. Any corrective intervention by the technician will therefore be on the choice of the type of attack, on wall-defense tactics, but not, for example, on the technical execution of the attack.
Having a clear understanding of how to use the numbers collected during the match and in training will be very useful in choosing the exercises and the degree of difficulty, making workouts “clear and understandable” also to athletes, obtaining greater involvement from them.