#1 - MAKE EVERY SECOND COUNT
Generally speaking you have 20 team training sessions between now and practice matches.
Let’s say most blokes do 80% of those then that’s 16 sessions.
16 sessions to get ready for 18 games - that’s not even 1 session per game.
Breaking it down you can easily see that as the coach, and/or a player training on their own, you cannot really afford to be time and energy on training that won’t give you the most benefit.
This means that you need to abide by the “performance hierarchy” from most important/must do as much of as I can to least important/only if I can fit it in without effecting the most important stuff.
In my opinion the performance hierarchy looks like this:
1 - Sport Specific Skills
2 - Sport Specific Skill Conditioning
3 - Speed Training
4 - Strength Training
5 - Energy Systems Training
6 - Hypertrophy Training
I’m not saying you might not even get to the last few points but you’ll need to micro-dose most of your ancillary training (points 3 - 6), doing what you need to do - not what you can do and getting the most from the least.
Planning your sessions also needs to be streamlined as much possible which can be done via:
- Running multiple groups for the same drill to keep player rest down and touches of the footy high
- Using familiar drills but with minor tweaks to progress learning
- Sending new training drills/concepts to your players prior to training so they’re semi-familiar with new training an to decrease learning time but not learning volume
- Follow the 4 coactive model from Fergus Connolly where most training drills train technical, tactical, physical and psychological simultaneously
How are you making every second count?
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