Handballexercises for technique strength
Last update: january 2026
Execution
- Triceps: Push on the edge of a bench or chair with hands behind the body.
- Jumping Jacks: Jump with arms and legs wide.
- Crunches: Lie on your back, make yourself small in a fetal position and stretch out without letting arms and legs touch the ground.
- Sumo Squat: Wide squat with feet pointed outward.
- Superman: In a quadruped position (dog position), lift one arm and opposite leg diagonally.
- Lunges: Step forward and bend both knees.
- Perform each exercise for 1 minute.
- 30 seconds rest between exercises.
- At least 2 repetitions of the entire series.
Execution
- Each exercise lasts 1 minute with 30 seconds of rest in between.
- Perform at least 2 repetitions of the entire sequence.
- Crunches Long: Lie on your back with your arms extended above your head. Touch the ground and then bring your hands to your toes.
- Squat: Perform a classic squat.
- Push-Ups: Perform push-ups.
- Backward Lunges: Step backward and bend your knee for a lunge.
- Penguin: Lie on your back with bent knees. Alternately touch your left and right ankle with your hands.
- Reverse Push-Ups: Sit on your buttocks with bent knees and feet flat on the ground. Place your hands behind your buttocks with bent elbows. Extend your arms to lift your buttocks.
Execution
- Wall Sit: Sit with your back against the wall as if sitting on an imaginary chair.
- Side Plank with Open Swing Right: Perform a side plank and swing your upper arm open upwards.
- Mountain Climbers: In push-up position, alternately bring your knees towards your chest.
- Crunches: Lie on your back and lift your shoulders off the ground while engaging your abdominal muscles.
- Side Plank with Open Swing Left: Perform a side plank and swing your upper arm open upwards.
- On Stomach, Lift Arms and Legs: Lie on your stomach and simultaneously lift your arms and legs off the ground.
- Each exercise 1 minute, 30 seconds rest. Minimum 2 repetitions.
Preparation
- Make pairs
- Per pair 1 ball
Exercise
- In the middle of half a field lie down opposite each other on your stomach a few feet apart.
- Put 1 ball in the middle between a pair.
- When the trainer calls GO, the two players try to conquer the ball.
- Whoever has the ball first starts dribbling and tries to get over the sideline without being tapped. The player without Ball is the ticker and must try to avoid this.
- If the player with the ball manages to dribble across the sideline without being touched, he/she wins the duel.
- If he/she does not manage to do so, the catcher is the winner. An assignment for the losers follows.
Starting positions:
- Lying on stomach
- Lying on back
- Sitting
Assignments for the losers:
- Abdominal muscle sit ups 10x
- Mountain climbers
- Jump squats 10X
All players will be divided into groups of 3
- All groups take place along the sideline
- Player A sprints 2x to the other side while players B and C do a power exercise on their place
- When player A comes back, she taps player B, who then starts sprinting Players A and C continue with the power exercise.
- The same happens with player C
- Every player runs 1x and does 2x the power exercise
Examples for power exercises:
- Push-ups
- Burpees
- Jumping jacks
- Sit-ups
- Explanation jump shot: Left - right - left - turn with left for jump - shoot in the air. Left-handed players do it the other way around
- (Eventually you have to be able to start it with both legs)
- Pay attention to height - do not jump forward. Use arms to get extra upward energy. First in slow motion!
- Trainer stands halfway the 9 meter
- Players in line at distance
- Player throws ball to trainer, runs in, catches ball at the 9 meter and finishes with 3 passes - jump shot.
- Trainer sits on knees (or stands, depending on length) gets ball from player, player makes jump shot and throws over trainer.
- Mark floor with hats for null pass (catch and drop) and jump shot with 1 or 3 passes.
Running training
- 30 sec jumping jacks
- 30 sec knee lifts
- 30 sec heels against buttocks
- 30 sec bridge with 1 foot on ball
- 30 sec jump-lunge with ball between legs 30 sec skating jumps
- 30 sec Russian-twist (feet off the floor)
Burpees
- Build up from 25
Plank workout (3 minutes)
- 30 seconds normal plank
- 30 seconds of alternating left and right leg lifts
- 30 seconds of side plank on right side, other arm extended
- 30 seconds side plank on left side, other arm extended
- 30 seconds of normal plank 30 seconds of spiderman plank
Bicycle Crunch
- 2 x 1 minute (rest 20 seconds)
Push-ups
- 3 x 8 pylo-clap push-ups
- Open swing (arms from left to right, leg moves with you), swing a little further each time.
- Arms swing and dribble (front and back and opposite).
- Monsterwalks - sit low, 10 paces in front, 10 paces in back.
- Crabwalks (same except sideways) pay attention to knees.
- Duckwalks (even lower) 5 paces.
- Dribbling to number 4 (1 leg on knee and alternate).
- Arms swing and dribble (front and back and opposite).
- Monsterwalks - sit low, 10 paces in front, 10 paces in back.
- Crabwalks (same except sideways) pay attention to knees.
- Duckwalks (even lower) 5 paces.
- Dribbling to number 4 (1 leg on knee and alternate).
- Lunge (1 leg backwards) and rotate upper body - alternate .
- Lunge - hip forward, arms extended upwards - then hang forward diagonally - then hammy rock (hamstrings, toes up).
- Lunge - hip forward, arms extended upwards - then hang forward diagonally - then hammy rock (hamstrings, toes up).
- Windshield wiper - sitting, legs spread, always move 1 knee in, 1 knee out.
- Then turn on one side and hold.
- Then turn on one side and hold.
- 123 in T shape (front left right back / front right left back).
- Squat jumps (short).
- Jumps - 123 high (with 2 legs and with 1 leg - also land on 1).
- Everyone makes pairs and stands on the back line.
- Number 1 of the pair runs at about 70/75% to the back line and back again.
- Number 2 of the pair does a power exercise.
- When number 1 taps number 2, they switch.
- Then number 1 does a power exercise and number 2 runs.
- Strength exercise:
- Squats
- Jumping jacks
- Planks
- Wall sit (in the hall)
- Arms circling
- Lunges
- Dribble on the spot
- Sit ups
Make 2 pairs
- Setting out the route
- 5 exercises
- Do 1 minute exercise
- Then switch and do the other exercise.
- Then move on.
- Exercises:
- Ladder with ball in your hand (keep your arm high), back and forth.
- T sprint, with pawns set out a T.
- Sprint from pawn 1 to pawn 2
- Then move sideways to the left to pawn 3
- Then move sideways to pawn 4
- Back to the sidewalk to pawn 2
- Then backwards to pawn 1
- Skipping rope
- From sideline to sideline put down pawns.
- Slalom dribble with the ball.
- Front lunges pass between 2 cones.
- Put your foot forward and in a 90 degree bend.
- Ball between legs from hand to hand
- Then the next foot forward and pass the ball under the legs again.
- Keep the tension on your legs.
- all the players sit in a circle on one half
- everyone has a ball
- keep your legs stretched above the ground
- 1st exercise = everyone passes the ball to the left
- 2nd practice = everyone passes the ball to the right
- 3rd exercise = do the same with a couple of "medizin" balls or 1 or 2 "medizin" balls in between
- now in plank position or push-up position
- 1st exercise = everyone rolls the ball under themselves to the next player through / left around
- 2nd exercise = everyone rolls the ball under themselves to the next player through / right around
- 3rd exercise = now the ball may also be rolled to another player e.g. to the other side
- Goalkeeper in goal,
- rest of the players have a ball.
- Player stands next to the bench throws the ball over the bench in an arc,
- jumps over the bench with both feet.
- Picks up the ball and throws it at goal.
- after goal attempt sprints around the cones and goes to get the ball and connects other sides again.
- middle li/re high li/re middle li/re low diagonal bounce free

- Put up a parcours.
- The course is built up in the number of laps you make until you complete the course 4 times in a row and the number of laps is then lowered again.
- The number of times a player performs the exercise is then 1,2,3,4,3,2,1.
- Exercise 1: Blocking at the pilons (over the circle)
- Exercise 2: Frog jumps (sideline)
- Exercise 3: Jumps two forward one back (center line)
- Exercise 4: Diagonal short shifting (sideline back)
- Put one player on the circle and one player on the 9-meter line
- The player on the 9-metre line tries to put the ball in the circle
- The player on the circle tries to prevent this by keeping the attacking player away from the circle.
- After 6x the attackers and defenders change
- If both players have done this 6 times, the attackers change with the attackers from the other side.
