Handballexercises for u12

Warming up:
  • Lunge pass.
  • Calf raises, possibly on bench, sagging slightly.
  • Jumping in place, landing softly on 2 legs, torso straight, knees out.
  • Jumping walk on 1 leg, landing softly.
  • Lunge stride.
Jump shot exercise:
  1. Place a marker at the jump spot.
  2. Player starts from corner, ball is passed with bounce by other player.
  3. Run up sharply to avoid giving defenders space.
  4. Lean sideways to prepare the turn.
  5. Aim in the left-right corner/high low.
  6. Possibly with goalkeeper.
  1. All players at the 6 meter with 1 ball each.
  2. All shoot until everyone has been:
  • At the goalie.
  • High. Changing corners.
  • Low. Corners change.
  • Half. The goalkeeper moves forward and back again.
Remember the goalie arc.
  1. All players grab a ball and line up next to each other.
  2. The trainer stands with ball in front of it.
  3. The players follow the trainer dribbling as a mirror image. If the trainer goes forward then they go backward, if the trainer goes left then they go right, and so on.
Variation:
  • Trainer raises number of fingers and players call out how many; looking over the ball.
  • Sit down while dribbling and stand up again.
  • Lie down while dribbling and get up again.
  • Turn ball around waist.
  • Dribbling between the legs.
drawing Mirror
  • At 3 spots(LO/MO/RO) place a dummy or poles with vests.
  • Players approach from 1 side, get the ball and after 2 steps from the 2nd line they finish 3 times with:
    • High stretch/ swing shot.
    • Underhand shot.
    • Articulated shot.

  • Have left-handed players start on the right.
  • Focus on ball control.
  • Lots of repetitions.
RH
  • Place a marker at the jump spot.
  • Player starts from corner, ball is passed with bounce by other player.
  • Run up sharply to avoid giving defenders space.
  • Lean sideways to prepare the turn.
  • Aim in the left-right corner/high low.
  • Possibly with goalkeeper.

LH
  • Same
  • Only right-handed players need to stretch more in time, kink shot in the air.
  • Be careful when coming down!
  • All players line up about 1 arm's length away and with their legs wide.
  • The 1st player rolls the ball between the legs of the rest to the last player.
  • Then everyone lies down flat and the last player with ball jumps over everyone.
  • When the player is in front, everyone stands up again with their legs wide and the player rolls the ball backwards.

  • This can also be done with 2 teams in match form. Who has all the players forward the fastest?
drawing Warm up row and lie down.
  • Sitting with the buttocks on the ground and shooting on goal.
  • Kneeling on both knees and shooting on goal.
  • Kneeling on 1 knee and shooting on goal.
  • Ensures optimal use of the upper body.
  • Players walk in a line.
  • The one at the back catches up with everyone else until he/she is at the front.
  • Then the next one who runs behind moves to the front.
drawing Warming up: Snake
  • Players walk in a line.
  • The one at the back catches up with everyone else until he/she is at the front.
  • Then the next one who runs behind moves to the front.
drawing Warming up hose
  • Players walk in a line with 1 meter distance from each other.
  • The one running last sprints forward slaloming between everyone until he/she is in front.
  • Then the next one running behind goes.
drawing Warming up slalom
  • All players line up about 1 arm's length away and with their legs wide.
  • The 1st player rolls the ball between the legs of the rest to the last player.
  • This one dribbles forward between everyone and then rolls the ball backwards.
drawing Warming up row with ball
Set up 2 times hats in a square turned into a diamond, about 4 meters wide. 
Players stand in 2 groups in a line behind a line.
 
  • They start running towards the twisted square.
  • Tap the back hat first.
  • Run backwards !
  • Tap the front hat.
  • Then right and left and back.
As soon as the player has crossed the line, the next one can.