Lexi Pollard – Professional Volleyball Strength Training Success

Chapter Overview:

0:00 Who is Lexi Pollard
0:09 How did Lexi Pollard find LPS
0:42 What improvements and training experience did Lexi Pollard have at LPS
2:22 What does Dominate means for Lexi Pollard
3:36 How did Lexi Pollard get started into volleyball
4:27 What advice can Lexi Pollard give to aspiring professional volleyball players

Hi, my name’s Lexi Pollard.

I’m a professional volleyball player over in Europe and my team is VC Neuwied in Germany that I’m heading to in a few days.

I actually came back from my well, I was over still in Europe for my first professional season and I was looking for a place to train for my off-season. And I actually just ended up Googling, you know, gyms in the GTA and LPS was the first one that came up.

I did my research and watched a bunch of their testimonials. And I actually loved what their core values are. I thought they really set well with kind of the way that I like to train and I like to, you know, practice.

So came here and the rest is history. I loved it ever since.

Before I was training at my university and the way that it was programmed, I was, you know, doing smaller, smaller movements, you know, specifically focusing on say power cleaning and box squats. And that really limited my movements.

I found on the court in certain things, you know, I was a little bit tighter in areas that I think I definitely shouldn’t have been, and that versus coming here, it’s just becoming way more fluent. And my flexibility is another thing that came very, very fast when I started training at LPS and that’s one thing that I’ve always wanted to improve, and that kind of came naturally with the program here.

And that’s one thing that I think is gonna be really beneficial for the longevity of my season. I’m training for 9 months. So flexibility is a must for me.

My experience at LPS. I’ve been here for about 4 months now, and I’ve absolutely loved it. The biggest difference that I’ve found coming here versus other places are full range of motion. That’s the one thing that they stress all the time is you’re always performing and moving to a full range of motion and lifting heavy all day, every day, almost in a way.

And that is probably one of the biggest things I’ve found have benefited from, and I’m coming out the strongest I’ve ever been in my 22 years, I think. And I’ve only been here for a short period of time so I think what I’ve done here over the past 4 months and the way that my program has been structured, it’s setting me up to really go overseas and dominate really.

The atmosphere inside LPS is probably something I’ve personally never experienced before. And I absolutely love it. Dominate to me is I just think mental, as soon as I hear the word dominate, you know, it’s not a lot of people you can come in and do what these people in here do every single day.

So being able to come in, dominate your mind and, you know, dominate your lift for the day, whatever you’re doing, like that’s everything. So some of the results I’ve seen so far.

I actually had surgery probably about 6 years ago, 7 years ago on my knee. And so I’ve always just been rehabbing it, taking care of it. And when I started training here, breaking down that scar tissue was something that I kind of have to do on the daily so always training to full range of motion and putting that tension and that pressure under that really helped with strengthening my knee as a whole, and definitely just increased my vertical.

That’s one thing volleyball players, especially that everybody wants to do, they wanna get faster, they wanna increase their vertical to get the next level. And that’s something that I did in a really short period of time here. And it went up a very good amount and a small amount of time. So I was really happy with it.

I’ve always love volleyball ever since I’ve been 11 years old and I’ve kind of just every time I’ve, you know, hit a goal of mine, I’ve always just looked to what’s next. Like I grew up in a small town and I started in a really small club.

And then whenever I decided I wanted to go play post-secondary, you know, found a bigger club. Then I went to go play post-secondary and then that finished and I was like, okay, what’s next?

Okay, professionals next. And you know, so I just keep climbing the ladder until there’s no more ladder to climb in a way, team like wearing team Canada, wearing the Maple Leaf would be definitely, it’s been a goal of mine. It’s been something that I’ve been striving for years now.

And I think over the next couple of years, if I continue to train at LPS two and keep getting stronger, I think that’s definitely something that’s achievable. I mean, one can hope so.

Some advice I think I would, my younger self and younger athletes, I think is really important is surround yourself with the right people. That’s a big one. Whether it’s, you know, your training, your family, your friends, coaches, people that really care about you, you know, having the people behind you that support you and it makes your journey a lot more enjoyable whenever you have the right people around you and, you know, you get the results that you want.

And, you know, the work that you put in is what you get out of it. So whenever you have people that are teaching you the right things, that are supporting you in the proper ways, it just makes, you know, reaching your goals that much, I don’t wanna say easier, but it’s a smoother sailing journey whenever, you know, you’re in the right mindset in that way.

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