What type of excercises should I do to prepare for water polo?

Question

I'm going to be playing water polo this upcoming season for my high school. it starts on august 7th, and i want to know some good ways to start conditioning for it. I run and lift weights already, but can somebody tell me other ways i should prepare for water polo?

Answer 1

just do what you're doing right now, I also suggest swimming laps and maybe getting somebody that you know to help you if they're on your highschool's water polo team. they'll know what to do to get you prepared for the water polo season.

Answer 2

Here's what I do:

To warm up, I swim a 200 reverse, then I do 4 sprints (2 head-up freestyle, 1 butterfly with breaststroke kick, and a lap of 3-3, which is 3 strokes of freestyle, then flip onto your back and 3 strokes of backstroke.)

Then I tread 4 laps. 2 laps facing front, then the other two on either side. Make sure your hands are out of the water, or else the treading is kinda useless. Sometime I get a gallon and I fill it up with water and tread in like a zigzag pattern with the gallon above my head.

After that, get a water polo ball and dribble it across the pool. You can try different techniques like swim a few strokes and then pick up the ball and pump fake it. Or you can swim with the ball in your hand.

Work on your passing, make sure you don't lob the ball, but throw it straight. Maybe pass with a friend. You can do off the water passes, pump fake then pass, alternate hands, and pressure passing.

Then get a goal into the water and work on your shots. There's pop shots, skip shots, t-shots. Make sure you work on getting your shots into the top corners of the goal.

There's a whole bunch more, like setting the ball, back hand shots, driving in, and a whole bunch of play in the game, but if you just want to condition, work on the things I said. G'luck!