Goal Settting in Volleyball

Jim Brogan offers the 10 Steps to Success on his web site.

Attitude: Your attitude is the strongest (or weakest) aspect about you. It will determine your self-image and how well or poorly you do at everything. No more “I can’t”.

Goals: Succeeding and seeing results should be a lot easier if you know what YOU want. If you enjoy what you’re doing and you’re getting better, then you will want to do it more. The goals become even bigger and better.

Objectives: These are the “little things” that constantly focus your attention on the information that will make a difference. The benefits of attaining your objectives daily create a remarkable determination to reach your goals.

Organization: Once you are on the path to accomplishing your objectives and goals you will want to reach your outcome faster. The best in every class, in every sport and every area of life, learn that time is very precious; It needs to be used wisely.

Inspiration: It is inevitable; we all get knocked down physically and mentally. When you were just a baby you fell down but got back up, otherwise you would be crawling everywhere. However, mentally staying focused on your goals and objectives can be challenging at times; Don’t lose sight of “why” you want those goals.

Commitment: You will face challenges from friends, classmates, teachers even people you don’t know. It is GOING TO HAPPEN, you can plan ahead of time that there will be pitfalls. Top performers and successful people always embrace the pitfalls but stay committed to their goals.

Leadership: When you set out to accomplish something friends notice. It creates a level of confidence, courage and determination in you. Little by little, people start to see and wonder how they can get the same results. People start to follow!

Accountability: You have finally learned that, no more blaming your challenges, failures or circumstances on other people. If there is something to get done, a decision that needs to be made, or a challenge to meet, you have proven that you can do it. “If it’s going to be, it’s up to me”.

Good choices, Bad choices, it's up to you : So now your friends depend on you. They watch what you say and more importantly what you do; Your choices and decisions will impact many. Their is no “pressure” on you because you are so confident you can make your own choices as opposed to the group‘s choices.

Success system : If you follow the system you will reap the rewards!

Can a $5 Solution Enhance Athletic Performance Better Than a Million Dollar Government Project?

Wired Magazine reports that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is a US Government agency that creates world-changing technology.

DARPA has begun efforts to make soldiers stronger, smarter, faster and more able to increase athletic performance, or help save lives. Their technology consists of a “coffee-pot” shaped glove that can cool or warm an individual’s core temperature. This allows them to stay “temperature neutral”, remaining alert and able to function in freezing cold, or cooling them to increase endurance and physical performance by many orders of magnitude.



The endurance aspect is illustrated by a Stanford lab technician who was able to increase physical performance. He increased his number of pull-ups without getting tired, his last pull-up as strong as the first. He was able to increase his endurance as well, after several weeks he went from 100 pull-ups per workout session to 180, then to 600 per workout. After 4 months of using the “glove” this individual was able to perform 1,000 pull-ups per workout.

Volleyball, and other athletes, could achieve similar results by having a bucket of ice where they workout and simply placing their arms in the bucket between workout intervals to aid recovery.

Ring Finger Length as an Indicator of Athletic Performance in Women

New Meaning to "Giving the Finger"

Can future female sports stars be predicted just by looking at the length of an individual's fingers?

Professor Tim Spector from King's College London has found that women whose ring fingers are longer than their index fingers should achieve higher levels in sports.

The ratio of the length between the index finger and the ring finger has previously been shown to be associated in males with diverse traits including cognitive ability, disease susceptibility, sexuality, sperm counts and aspects of personality. The King's College London study is the largest one to date examining the ratio between finger lengths and sporting ability.

The research examined hand radiographs of 607 female twins aged 25-79 years from the UK, and the lengths of the second and fourth fingers of each hand were measured. Participants also ranked their highest level achieved in a list of 12 sports on a questionnaire. Research found the highest achieved level of participation in any sport was correlated to women with longer fourth fingers than second fingers.