Stamina, the ability to sustain physical or mental health for a long period of time. Volleyball players are required to have good stamina because tournaments can last up to 10 hours a day with up to 7 games and it is important to stay energized throughout the whole day.
During volleyball, it’s not just physically exhausting but also mentally exhausting. Keeping up with your stamina with help your volleyball game improve a lot. Once at one of my volleyball tournaments, there were a couple of girls who did strength training outside of just our team practice. The rest of my team and I were so tired by the end of the day, but those other couple teammates weren’t because they had been working on their stamina outside of practice.
A great way to help with having good stamina is eating food with high protein levels, for example, peanut butter. Peanut butter is high in calories which means it digests slower which means it will stay in your body for a longer time. Some other foods that would help are beans, oatmeal, and green leafy vegetables.
Ways to keep up with your stamina:
- Strength exercise like body weight squats, push ups, sit ups, jogging, cycling and extended volleyball practice periods.
- Continue to work on balance
- Yoga
- Make sure you eat carbs
- Workout regularly, not just twice a week
- Make sure you get proper rest
- Eat multiple times a day
- Always remember to stretch before and after working out to prevent injuries
Stamina helps with your physical and mental state when being athletic, as well as improving and affecting the way you play. There are tons of ways to help have good stamina, with exercise and the food your eating. Long days tournaments require good, built up stamina to help not only yourself but your teammates as well.
Paige's 2019 Volleyball Season 
This was very well written and had a lot of great information. I play a competitive sport as well and I have learned from this blog to eat foods with high protein before games.
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These are some very helpful tips I can use to keep stamina when I’m swimming. For example, a way you keep your stamina in volleyball is by eating high in protein and its difficult to keep up with your stamina in swimming. So now to keep a high stamina while I swim I’ve learned to eat foods like beans, vegetable or peanut butter so they stay in my body longer and as a result I have longer stamina. And before swimming I will also try and stretch, get a proper rest, or do yoga so I have even more stamina when doing multiple amounts of swimming laps. Thank you for these useful ideas on having stamina!
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I first read the title of the blog, and thought “what is stamina”. I loved how Paige didn’t just talk about how stamina helps but what is it. Also, volleyball games can last to 10 hours a day!!! That’s crazy, clearly stamina is important in not just volleyball, but in majority of sports. Amazing blog Paige!
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