This is my idea for a pre-match warmup. My goal was to give our DS passing touches and our setters/hitters time to warm up different sets and hits in the shortest time possible.
In practice, I pulled the waiting players to the defensive side of the net to block the hitters. I rotated my setters in after 2x across the hitting line: 6 sets per turn.
This is my first posting to sportplan, so be gentle.
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