The POW Experience at NACIVT 2019 | Volleyball Vlog

[@shadowbbb4010]

You guys were in Toronto, ugh I wish I could’ve met you guys and watch you guys play

[@Angebr0C]

The tip/dump at 0:10 was actually so clean.

[@Arjuninnit]

Watched it whole respect this guy so much 🤜🏼

[@austin_Boston98]

Love the vlog Coach Donny!!! 🙌🏽🔥🔥🙏🏽 appreciate the vlogs, workout vids, tutorials and open gym vids. Keep striving coach, underdogs always come out on top! 🤞🏽

[@TheShawnm66]

We had Tim Horton's in St Louis but they couldn't make it for some reason. I guess "too much heat" from Dunkin and Krispy Kreme.

[@abdulkabiryahya8822]

Donny, You make me so happy!

[@tomosato7788]

I was thinking about the comments around 37:30 about not wearing gear. I see the reason for not playing routinely or practicing in it, but maybe for a multi-day tournament where you travel (and maybe for the week or two of practices leading to it) it might help to have gear on? If you're doing local 1-day tourneys and open gyms, I feel like you have more mental clarity to be careful about body mechanics, and the wear and tear is lower. You're probably well rested and more careful. However, in a tourney like this, you're not in your usual environment, sleep and eating are probably disrupted, and the total workload as well as intensity of playing would be much higher than normal (so your body may not be trained for multiple hours of competitive play on consecutive days). It seems like gear to help protect a bit when your muscle memory and mechanics fail due to fatigue or intensity might be useful. I think even for shoes, as one ramps up practice one could use a well-cushioned Adidas show like a Boost or Bounce, and then peak off with say the Nikes. Just my two cents on the topic, from one old injured person to another...

[@donnyhui1986]

Yea I was thinking the same thing for longevity reasons. Great perspective!

[@tomosato7788]

I like the concept of "controlled" vs "uncontrolled" load when playing, training, etc. The goal of training is to train your body for loads, mechanics, etc. in a controlled scenario so that the form is clean and the body recovers (rest between reps and sets, rest days between sessions). This way, your body has time to adapt and gains muscle memory of good form. Then, you stop as form starts degrading (I see this type of end point even for powerlifting and o-lift programs, so it's not just traditional skill sports.) For example, landing forces in jumps can easily be around 10 times bodyweight, and it's an uncontrolled act. For a while, I had patellar tendinitis, and one of the things that helped me the most was leg pressing. With leg press, you can start reaching similar load levels, but you can do it in a very controlled manner with regards to ROM and timing. It's not a clear cut spectrum. For example, squats, or even jumping and plyo drills, are all more controlled than in-game jumping, but less controlled than leg presses. It's similar in reasoning why people recommend box jumps before squats and such. Having said that, I think some see the best results by doing box jumps, a warmup level of squatting (so going up to a near max weight), and then doing jumps again. The exact set/rep/rest scheme depends on stamina. I think coaches often sweep it under "post-activation potentiation" and similar acronyms. They say that as we age, pure strength doesn't decline too rapidly, but explosiveness does, and I feel like this trick can be useful. One good article online is "Post-Activation Potentiation: Theory And Application By Bret Contreras" As for how training cycles go, I feel like when people are doing only 6 or less major events a year, it's possible to make small training cycles for both skill and conditioning. The old way of training used to be focus on one thing, then move on to another. The most classic example is traditional periodization training, where the phases are: first hypertrophy, then building strength, then power, then peak. The problem is that the workouts in each phase are the same, and I feel like you overfocus on one aspect of conditioning. It's like if you were coaching volleyball, and for 2 weeks all you do is serve. Then the next 2 weeks all you do is pass. etc. More modern thoughts of conditioning do things like daily undulating periodization where consecutive sessions focus on different aspects (say if you squat 3x a week, 1st is higher rep, 2nd is for strength, 3rd is for explosiveness) as well as complex training which is where you focus across that spectrum. I feel simply doing this swings too far the other way. I personally feel that what makes the most sense is to use complex training, but shift the ratios around to focus on different things. Right after say a big tournament, use a week or two on lower weights, higher reps, controlled motion for the most part, but still do some power and some jump work. Then spend some time getting back to heavier loads, but in controlled fashion (heavy squats as opposed to lots of jumping). Depending on training load and recovery, start reducing the volume of heavy lifting about a month before competition to just doing warmup sets and maybe one or two sets of heavy weights, and focus more on power development. There's a myth that you skip a day of lifting, you shrink in the bro-world, but muscle and strength loss don't happen for a couple weeks. There are plenty of powerlifting templates suggesting rest weeks or at least a deload week as well. Given that their sole goal is more strength, I think it's safe to say, a week or two off doesn't shrivel guys up into a raisin. The same goes for skill training. It doesn't hurt for your setter to practice digging and blocking as general practice, but at some point, might need to have his attention shift to setting and serving when the tournament approaches. Again, just my two cents after reading both books and online articles and trying things out. I try my best to filter out bad info, but it's never too easy. It would be interesting though to hear from others on this topic. If they managed to read through and get all the way down here 😂

[@tomosato7788]

@@donnyhui1986 Used the Elevate Poop Program twice before open gym yesterday, played the best I had in months! :)

[@klosay1118]

Can you bend your knee when you injured it, cuz I can’t bend my left knee when I tried to bend it on one standing leg and can you give me a tip on how to get it working again, it really hurt tryin to bend it and it won’t even bend half way. When I do try to force it to bend it would hurt more and more

[@cheneuer.]

13:44 Watch Coach Donny on the Left.

[@iamseraden5536]

18:33 was that josh, #1?

[@austin_Boston98]

Lmfaooo i knew it was Clayton! 😭😭😭27:17

[@stardust5175]

Food review?

[@jialisitu2308]

At 24:55 wasnt that a carry??

[@cbtutuff]

QinWuYin WiYin it’s 9man you’re allowed to do that

[@franciscobernal5192]

Thanks for sharing! Nice experience!

[@nicholasvu9720]

ayyy i actually made it into the vlog

[@donnyhui1986]

Congratulations 😀. Share it with your friends!

[@raychav]

I knew it was Clay :)

[@stevec9690]

wait.. why are there 9 players on court? I thought it supposed to be 6?

[@charleslxiong]

It's 9 Man Volleyball. Different Rules as well.

[@MrXion-ec2cd]

Never seen that much Asian in one center 0_0

[@bossbair6324]