INSIDE THE ACADEMY
Welcome to the Arm Swing Academy, where we are dedicated to transforming your game. Here, hitting harder and swinging pain-free isn’t just a dream—it’s our promise. As a member, you’ll gain exclusive access to workout programs, technical drills and educational resources, all carefully curated to optimize your performance.
But what sets us apart? Our hands-on approach. You won’t be navigating this journey alone. Our expert Arm Swing Coaches will be by your side, guiding you through every step of the process.
And that’s not all. Picture this: monthly arm swing video analysis, with coaching tailored specifically to you. Send in your videos, and receive detailed feedback and personalized drills designed to take your arm swing to the next level.
Our goal is simple: to replicate the in-person coaching experience, making it accessible to all. With a seamless blend of workouts, analysis and live chat support, you’ll feel the difference from day one.
Ready to hit harder? Keep scrolling to learn more about how the Arm Swing Academy can revolutionize your performance.
THE COMPLETE PACKAGE
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VELOCITY AND LONGEVITY
We will expose you to our patented ‘Recipe’ for developing more velocity with less pain. Focusing not just on technique, but also the physical and mental skills required to create lasting changes!
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WORKOUT PROGRAMMING
Our arm swing workout programs will have you moving in ways that develop OWNERSHIP over positions and patterns within your body so you can produce more power on-court. These are not your average workouts…
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VIDEO ANALYSIS
We are here to coach YOU! Send in videos of your arm swing every month to be analyzed and receive customized feedback and coaching so you can continually take you arm swing to the next level.
What Our Athletes Say
Hit the ball harder in 4 weeks
Or we’ll give you a full refund.
We have worked with thousands of athletes to improve their velocity and decrease their pain. We are confident we will get you the results you are looking for!
If for some reason after 4 weeks of doing the workouts and technique drills you don’t feel improvements in your attacking, we’ll give you a full refund!
$247 (Sign up for 6-months for the cost of 5!)
$49/month
The Right Workout Program For You
All of the programs below are included in your subscription, once you become a member you will get to choose which one you start with. We have designed the arm swing focused workout programs to fit your needs! Our workouts are designed to be shorter than your common 1-1.5 hour long workouts so you can push hard more frequently and spend more time on-court!
Programs
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This is our most comprehensive program designed for volleyball players who have some strength training experience and have access to a weight room. You will work towards developing more overhead strength, rotational power, and ownership over arm swing specific positions so you can hit harder with less pain!
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Prioritize your shoulders like never before! This program is designed for volleyball players who want to have specific attention on their shoulders so they can get out of pain, avoid future injuries and hit harder. You will need a basic weight room set up for most of the program.
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This program is designed to be completed with minimal equipment (pull-up bar, free weights and medicine ball). It has less equipment than the “Essentials” program while getting you the same game changing results!
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This program is designed for volleyball players who are already doing a strength and conditioning routine with their team or on their own but want to make sure they prioritize their arm swing! It is designed to directly supplement your program by improving arm swing specific qualities and capacities that are very commonly not considered in traditional strength and conditioning.
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This program is designed for younger (14-18U) volleyball athletes that are looking to hit the ball harder. It will develop fundamental movement patterns for enhanced athleticism, strength and durability. It’s designed with young athletes in mind, the workouts are short, and fun so athletes feel motivated to workout!
Arm Swing Video Analysis
Each month we encourage you to send us videos of your arm swing.
This way, we can analyze it and let you know where you are in your progress and what drills and cues to use to take your next step! This takes the guesswork out of your training so you can get efficient results.
We believe this is one of the most beneficial aspects of being a member of the Arm Swing Academy.
$247 (Sign up for 6-months for the price of 5!)
$49/month
FAQ
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Many of our athletes have traditional strength & conditioning programs that they follow while in the Arm Swing Academy. The way we train the shoulder, spine, and ribcage are quite different from the usual strength and conditioning approach, and is very targeted at results that transfer directly into attacking velocity and shoulder health. This is where the Vitamins program comes in - it gives you everything you need and is meant to be combined with a traditional strength program.
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Fortunately we don’t come across this very often - but if after 4 weeks of doing the workouts and technique drills you don’t feel improvements in your attacking, we’ll give you a full refund! We’ll also help you problem solve as to why you might not be seeing results - because we assume you’ll still want to improve!
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Vitamins workouts are the quickest and take around 10 minutes.
Beginner workouts take around 20 minutes.
Essentials and Minimalist workouts take around 20-30 minutes.
Sessions where you are working on your technique (throwing and attacking) are designed to be done on-court before or after your volleyball practices and take around 5-10 minutes.
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As soon as you’re interested in starting to do things other than playing volleyball to get better at volleyball, the Arm Swing Academy can help! Usually the youngest athletes we see are around 12 years old, and we have programs built specifically to be accessible and safe for that age.
On the other end of the spectrum, there’s no age limit to seeing benefits from the workouts and technique drills in the Academy. In fact often later in the volleyball career-span is where inefficient patterns start to show their impact, and injuries can pop up. Our workouts and drills can make a big difference in how you feel at that point, and stop any injuries from progressing further when you play.
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No problem! You want to have a little bit of experience under your belt so you have a good idea of the demands that go into attacking, but really the sooner that you learn the technique concepts and build your base of strength and mobility, the easier it will be to pick up skill on court.
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On the platform there is an “Inbox” tab that when you message on there it goes straight to our coaches. Any time you have a question you can send us a message and we’ll get back to you within 24 hours (expect a bit longer wait on weekends).
What if I need extra help beyond the chat?
If there’s something we can’t solve over chat and some simple changes to your program, there’s always the option to upgrade to a Virtual 1-on-1 sessions to dive deeper into assessment and video analysis of your form and technique.
Email us at hi@athletewellnessacademy.com if you want to find out more about working with us 1-on-1.
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We get that sometimes the life of an athlete gets busy and you can’t fit in everything you’d like to do. If you end up canceling your membership you will no longer have access to the Arm Swing Academy resources and program. If this is the case for you we encourage you to follow us on instagram to continue learning more ways to change your arm swing!
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You have a couple options based off what program you are in:
Go back through your program a second time
If you completed the Beginner program: progress to the minimalist program next and then to the Essentials or Vitamins after that.
If you completed the Essentials program: progress to Essentials Level 2 or switch it up and try the Vitamins or Minimalist programs.
If you completed the Vitamins program: and you aren’t following a separate workout program anymore, feel free to join the Minimalist or Essentials program next.
If you completed the Minimalist program: and now have access to more equipment you can switch over to the Vitamins or Essentials program next.
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We are ALWAYS learning and finding new and more efficient ways to make changes to the arm swing. So as we do, you will be the first to see them in existing and new programs.
We also will continue to release new programs based on the needs and wants of our athletes. So let us know in the Academy what you are looking for and we will add it to the que of new programs to be released!
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Yes and no. Our Arm Swing coaches will be present on the app to help with any questions you have and analyze your arm swing videos you send in and provide feedback on how to make technical changes based off your current patterns.
If you need lots of customizations to the workouts or exercises we are more than happy to help you through the chat function on the platform. But if you need something very customized built out for you, we would direct you towards our 1-on-1 coaching which is separate from the Academy.
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On the Arm Swing Academy you’ll find a calendar with your workouts for the week clearly laid out. You can click ahead to see what’s coming up and rearrange the workouts to better fit your weekly schedule. To rearrange your workouts so they better match your weeks schedule just head to the “Coaching” icon, click on the “Training” calendar, click on the rearrange arrows on the top right and shuffle things around!
The workouts will have videos, explanations, reps, sets, etc. all included so all you have to do is follow along!
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Our Essentials and Vitamins program require a basic weight room while our Beginner and Minimalist program require a pull-up bar, resistance bands and a medicine ball.
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Most often within the first couple of weeks athletes notice that they can hit the ball harder, with less effort. They also commonly report that it feels like less work for their shoulder, and shoulder pain decreases!
Of course the longer you’re in the program and the more consistent you are, typically the bigger changes you will be able to unlock.
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No worries. This is a super common issue in volleyball, and the Arm Swing Academy workouts and technique drills are designed to get you stronger and more efficient so you have less pain. Our workouts and drills can be modified if you’re in pain. The first step to this is reducing the amount of movement in the exercise. For example if the bottom of a push-up causes you pain, don’t go all the way into the bottom position to start. The second step if that isn’t enough is to reach out in the academy and let us know what exercises are causing you discomfort and send us a video of you performing them so we can see what changes we can make.
The exception to this is a recent acute injury like a shoulder subluxation or dislocation, or an acute back injury that stops you from playing volleyball. Essentially if you can play volleyball, you’ll be fine in the Arm Swing Academy, but if you’re in too much pain to play, you might do better starting with our 1-on-1 services where we can customize things for you based off of a more thorough assessment.
OUR SECRET SAUCE
The Recipe for Creating Arm Swing Changes
When approaching the arm swing as not only a technical change but also a physical and mental, EVERYONE can make changes.
Our unique approach is rooted in our extensive volleyball and movement science backgrounds combined with thorough research into other overhead sports.
Early on, experienced coaches approached us with athletes struggling to make progress. We discovered that attempts to effect change were confined to the parameters of a typical volleyball practice. So, we expanded our approach, enhancing athletes’ movement efficiency and power off the court, then seamlessly integrating these newfound physical abilities with simple changes to their on-court patterns.
Throughout this process, we educated the athlete on the ‘why’, encouraged deliberate practice and promoted patience. The results were astounding—every athlete previously deemed “unchangeable” experienced transformation. It’s not a critique of the athletes or coaches that were attempting to make changes; it’s an acknowledgement that sometimes, attention off the court, a focus on mindset and breaking down technical patterns into their simplest form are essential.
Using this approach we’ve witnessed remarkable results: athletes gaining 10km/h in just 30 minutes, college teams boosting their average velocity by 13km/h without working with them on-court, and academy members increasing their velocity by 15km/h while playing pain-free for the first time in years. From beginners to seasoned professionals, our approach has yielded tangible improvements.
We’re confident in your ability to make a change because we’ve seen countless athletes like you succeed in the past. With over 20 years of collective experience, we’re thrilled to introduce the Arm Swing Academy, poised to revolutionize how volleyball athletes train their arm swings and empower even more players to reach their full potential!
ABOUT US
Meet Nick Del Bianco and Mischa Harris, the dynamic duo behind our revolutionary approach to training the Arm Swing. They have over two decades of combined experience working with athletes on and off the court, and over 15 years of honing their skills playing volleyball at the provincial, university, national team, and professional levels—both indoors and on the sand.
Nick and Mischa aren't your average coaches—they're the go-to "Arm Swing Guys" for NOEZYBUCKETS, consult with University programs across Canada and work closely with players at the national team and professional levels worldwide. Drawing on their expertise in both volleyball and movement science, they deliver an integrated approach to revolutionizing arm swings.
Their mission was ignited by 2 realizations:
Too many volleyball players were suffering from largely preventable knee, low back, and shoulder injuries. It was becoming the norm that if you played volleyball, you would have one or all of these injuries.
They noticed a glaring gap in how the arm swing was trained, or in most cases in how the arm swing wasn’t trained, even amongst the sport’s elite.
As determined problem-solvers, they connected the dots:
Most young volleyball players lack coaching on efficient arm swing techniques.
The arm swing can cause unnecessary stress on the knees, low back and shoulder if done with inefficient patterns.
Most volleyball players succumb to knee, back and shoulder pains throughout their career.
When an “inefficient” arm swing becomes more efficient, most pains dissipate as patterns improve.
Nick and Mischa knew there had to be a better way—a solution that not only relieved pain but also enhanced performance. Thus, their "RECIPE" for creating change was born. By improving movement efficiency in the weight room and translating it onto the court, they saw athletes not only overcome injuries but also achieve newfound power and precision.
Their innovative approach isn't just for the injured—it's for anyone seeking to maximize their potential.
The results are real, but don’t just take our word for it. Check out the stories of our athletes and the programs we work with!
“I feel stronger and can tell I’ve been hitting the ball harder.”
Sara Gray
Youth National WVB Team
“[They] greatly enhanced my understanding of the ideal arm swing mechanics and helped me increase my spike and serve velocity while keeping my shoulder healthy.”
Pearce Eshenko, Middle
Team Canada
Ready to hit harder with less pain?
Take your game to new heights and realize your full potential.
We may be a little biased… but we strongly believe your arm swing will directly impact scoring more points, being on the court more, making a higher level team and being noticed by new coaches. Working on it is probably something you’ve considered before, maybe you’ve even attempted to change it yourself. With our coaching inside the Arm Swing Academy we know you will develop more velocity and longevity in your arm swing. In fact if you don’t notice changes in the first 4-weeks we will refund you!
$247 (Sign up for 6-months for the price of 5!)
$49/month
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