Is Beach volleyball a good workout during the summer for high school volleyball tryouts?

I've played club, school and beach volleyball for six years now; next year I'll be a senior. To answer your question, the simple answer is yes, it is a good workout. The problem is that when you play beach volleyball, it is a different style than school ball. The refs are often more relaxed when calling lifts and doubles. The sand is hard to adjust to at first, but you'll get used to it; plus it helps to improve your vertical when you return to indoor.

My advice is that you should play beach volleyball, but only as long as you hold to the standards expected on the school court. When I first started to play beach, I developed a couple bad habits. Just be careful to keep good technique. Have fun out on the court and the sand.

There are college athletes that play beach volleyball during their off season because it helps you improve your game ten fold. Reason being that you have to learn to adjust to the sand, heat, and ball. There's wind which means you have to move your body more in order to give a better pass. The sand is very difficult to move in, which means you'll grow quicker on the hardwood. And the heat from playing beach is pretty hardcore.

Anyway, playing beach will help you in your vertical as well. When you jump on sand, it absorbs most of your jump and thus your hitting will get a little screwed up as well. But this helps you on the hardwood because when you are able to jump, you'll learn to hit around blocks because that's all you could do on the sand. Serving as well, beach courts are smaller so you'll have to learn to serve shorter or possibly harder.

Beach is great offseason training. The sand will make you much much quicker and the wind moves the ball making you move your feet to the ball to make good passes, not just sticking your arms out to the side and being lazy. The sand also makes jumping VERY VERY hard. Once you return to indoor you will be SKYING! Your vertical should increase by 3-4 inches by playing consistently on the beach. Make sure you play real beach with some real beach players. Don't listen to abcdefg.... beach is much much tighter on calls than indoor. Most real outdoor players can't stand the leniency of indoor, claiming that it isn't the pure game. Check the real outdoor rules and make sure you play by them, no open hand dinks, no open hand receive of serves, sets must not rotate more than 1 1/2 rotations etc. Link to the rules below.

you bet it is!

beach volleyball is very difficult trying to get through the sand.

if you notice the beach volleyball players on tv are in great shape.

its very difficult to jump and run in sand. great way to work out. then when you get back on a court, you feel so much quicker ;)

o ya! If u play beach for the summer and then by the time when u play indoor, u will feel so much lighter and u can jump really high

Beach volley ball is better, it takes longer and it's also hard to trudge through the sand. It's a double workout!

YES, beach volleyball is more instenst it is the best way to make your spikes perfect!!!

well it differs because you play in the sand, but if you can manage that playing on a court should be a breeze!