Level: High
This training unit focuses on the saving technique of the goalkeepers for shots at the middle and top of the goal. Good agility is prerequisite for this. Following warm-up, there will be an exercise which combines the basic goalkeeper movements with coordination ladder drills. In the ball familiarization ...
Level: High
This training unit focuses on improvement of fast adjustment from offense to defense movements. Following a warm-up running exercise combined with an adjustment task and a coordination drill, the players practice how to quickly react to signs during the ball familiarization phase. The goalkeeper warm-up ...
“Potential with handball – Free-throws” is the third topic Felix Linden, 2nd national handball league coach at HSG Krefeld, highlights for the handball-uebungen.de series. Felix Linden sees a lot of potential with free-throw situations – either through direct shots or subsequent playing variants – that is not yet taken full advantage ...
Apart from individual technical and tactical skills, practicing different systems of cooperation may be useful to structure the offense play and force the defense to move in order to score a goal.
This textbook gives detailed step-by-step descriptions of initial actions and possible options for continuous playing against different ...
Goalkeepers are an integral part of the team and may have a great impact regarding the successful outcome of a game. In the daily training routine, however, it is not easy to support goalkeepers adequately. This can be achieved through special training units or exercises for goalkeepers in the second half of the court. Moreover, the team ...
Level: High
This training unit focuses on step-by-step development of an initial action in outnumbered situations with a positional change from the center back position player to the 6-meter line (second pivot). Following warm-up and a short game, the running and passing paths for the initial action are introduced ...
Level: Medium
It may happen that several players at a time cannot attend a training unit due to illness. This training unit focuses on series of shots and preparatory exercises for five field players and one goalkeeper. The warm-up phase is followed by a short game, the ball familiarization phase and the goalkeeper ...
In modern team handball, the back position players are under high pressure regarding decision-making processes. In fixed positional play, their decisions are often crucial with regard to success or failure of an attack. In order to make the right decision within a fraction of a second, the players must repeatedly do exercises that provide them ...
Offensive defense systems are one of the basic elements of youth handball – through creation of large spaces in width and depth, they promote the individual players’ development both as offense and defense players. In the first place, offensive man coverage should be practiced. Through clear, fixed coverage of their respective opponent, the ...
Level: High
The objective of this training unit is to practice the interaction of the goalkeeper with his defense players. Following warm-up with a short game, the players practice the legwork required for proper defense play during the ball familiarization and the goalkeeper warm-up shooting phases. With the subsequent ...
Level: High
This training unit focuses on improving the defense 1-on-1 and 2-on-2 in small groups. Following warm-up and a tag game, the players enter the ball familiarization phase which will involve typical defense movements. This is followed by an individual defense exercise with quick adjustment and the goalkeeper ...
Level: Medium
The purpose of this training unit is to practice how to actively get into physical contact and to collaborate in order to prevent breakthroughs. Following warm-up and a sprint contest, the players defend against the attacking players as a team during the first defense exercise. The following exercise ...
Fast breaks are an important factor for successful handball game outcomes in modern handball. Further positive aspects include motivation of the team through quick goals in connection with demoralization of the opposing team as well as improvement of the attractiveness of the handball game itself. Quick adjustment from defense to offense play ...
Level: Top
This athletics unit focuses on improving speed strength endurance. After warm-up and a short game, five athletics exercises train the various groups of thigh muscles by moving forwards, backwards, and to the side. This training unit is very intense and can thus be incorporated in preparation periods or season ...
Level: High
The objective of this training unit is to develop a simple initial action after a fast throw-off. Following warm-up and a coordination run exercise, the players practice the basics during the ball familiarization phase and the goalkeeper warm-up shooting. During the three subsequent exercises, the players ...
Level: Low
This training unit focuses on breaking away from man coverage without a ball, by means of running feints. Following warm-up, a sprint contest with changes of direction, and a team ball variant, the players practice quick changes of direction one more time during the goalkeeper warm-up shooting exercise. ...
Level: Top
This training unit focuses on simple initial actions in order to gain positional advantage by having a physically stronger pivot play against a physically weaker defense player on the wing positions. The warm-up phase focuses on coordination. Afterwards, the players practice the first steps of the subsequent ...
Level: High
The objective of this training unit is to practice the quick adjustment from defense play to fast break initiation. Following the warm-up phase with a coordination run exercise and the ball familiarization phase, the goalkeeper warm-up shooting combines a preparatory defense exercise and a series of shots ...
Level: High
This training unit contains a playful, handball-specific endurance unit. Each exercise is characterized by a high running intensity and is directly related to the handball game. After warm-up and ball familiarization as well as goalkeeper warm-up shooting, an endurance course is done. In this, two players ...
Level: Low
The objective of this training unit is to improve the dribbling technique focusing on simultaneous observation of the game situation. The players combine movements with dribbling already during the warm-up exercise; in a sprint contest and a short game, they practice dribbling at increased speed. Following ...
Level: High
The objective of this training unit is to develop a long crossing during the second wave. Following a warm-up running exercise, a short game, and a ball familiarization exercise, the players initially develop the long crossing during the goalkeeper warm-up shooting phase. In the subsequent series of shots ...
Level: Medium
The objective of this training unit is to improve the positioning of the pivot. Following warm-up and a short game, the players practice passing to the pivot under difficult conditions and with different passing variants during the ball familiarization and goalkeeper warm-up shooting phases. Afterwards, ...
Level: Top
This intense training unit focuses on athletics training. After warm-up including a game with high running intensity and a coordination run exercise, an athletics course is done. An additional jumping and strength exercise for the arms and a running exercise complete this training ...
Level: Low
The key topics of this training unit are passing feints and how to combine them with a breakthrough or a return pass to a teammate. Following a warm-up running exercise, the players already learn how to pass the ball cleverly in a short game; this will be further developed in the ball familiarization phase. ...