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Each Wednesday the WPH features the WPH Wednesday Workout, designed to help you become a stronger, fitter, faster, and better handball player. From leg and shoulder strengthening exercises to HIT Training, biking, balance, footwork, agility, coordination, first-step explosiveness, hydration, cooling down, upper body strengthening, circuit training, altitude training, swimming, jogging, and much more, the WPH Wednesday Workouts focus on the areas that every handball player needs to reach their peak form.
The WPH Coaching Center has discussed Coaching, How to See a “Fast Ball,” The Six Walls, The Most Important Shot, The Diet, What Separates Paul Brady, The 3-Wall Power Serve, Doubles Strategies, the Fist to the Ceiling, the Sidearm Kill, the Paddle Kill, and much more.
Now the WPH Wednesday Workout and the WPH Coaching Center meet to bring you How to Prepare Your Handball Bag
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To be successful in a handball match or a handball tournament, you must be prepared. This means practicing, hydrating, resting, playing matches, cross-training, and the most overlooked – preparing your handball bag. If you are not prepared, you are prepared to fail.
When entering a match or tournament, the goal is to eliminate ALL excuses and give yourself the opportunity to play your best. This starts with bringing the proper equipment. On the Race 4 Eight tour, players are frequently seen running through crowds to find water during a 60-second timeout, asking the fans for extra gloves and shirts, coming to the tournament desk for a warm-up ball, desperately searching for tape and padding after getting a bone bruise, and when playing outdoors, not having sunglasses, sunscreen, a towel, or enough water.
How could a pro player travel thousands of miles and not have enough gloves or shirts? Or a backup pair of shoes? Or enough shirts? It happens at every pro event, and it happens in amateur divisions as well.
Part of coming to win is preparing to win, including preparing your handball bag. There is a reason Paul Brady comes to the courts with a bag that is nearly the size of him. He is prepared!
Here is what you should always bring to a match:
- Gloves: at least 5 pairs
- Shirts: at least 5
- Eye guards: 2 pairs – your pair plus a backup pair
- Balls: At least 4 in your bag to warm-up
- Water: At least 100 ounces per match
- Shoes: 2 pairs, a backup in case your shoes rip and break (it happens)
- Socks: At least 2 pairs (socks get wet and develop holes in the toe)
- Extra shoelaces
- Headbands: At least 3
- Tape + band aids
- Liners: 2 pairs (in case you develop a bone bruise)
- Padding: To use in case you jam your finger
- Towels
- Snack: granola bars, Clif bar, banana, grapes
- Outdoor:
- Sunglasses
- Sunscreen + lip balm
Make sure to arrive at your match at least 30 minutes prior to your start time and find a space for all of your equipment. Lay out all of the equipment you may need for the match so you are not rifling through your bag looking for what you need during a timeout.
Eliminate all of the stress you can by being prepared and eliminating all distractions. Do not be that person running around the club needing gloves, shirts, tape, water, towels, shoelaces, and whatever else you can forget. Come to win!
David Fink
WPH Fitness Director