TEAM / PLAYER PREP IDEA'S & THOUGHTS PART 3

NEURAL PERPLEXITY (CAL DIETZ)

– Ice hockey based

- Step 1 is free skating

-Step 2 is free skating with puck

- Step 3 is free skating with a puck + a cognitive aspect with very easy math questions such as take 3 

from these numbers? 10, 6, 8, 4, 6 etc

- Can do an in and out ladder agility type drill with a tennis ball being passed around the waist at the 

same time with the same maths questions being asked simultaneously

- You can go up the agility latter fowards and/or backwards

- Progress each aspect of that drill through using different ladder drills, different tennis ball rotational direction, switch hands, juggling etc

- Pretty much keep it simple and get your hands and feet working at the same time with a cognitive aspect

- Do in speed and/or skill drill rest periods

 

EFFICIENCY

- If you are maintaining the same pace/time but are using less power to maintain it then that’s a strong signal of more efficiency and aerobic fitness gains

- Try and set up an aerobic skill drills where the progress is in the skill level over time (e.g. 10 different kicks/handballs while running continuously for 5mins counting how many targets you can hit)

SMALL SIDED GAMES (KEIR WENHAM-FLATT)

- Perform specific match actions  in a repetitive nature in very small groups (2 – 3 players) adhering to set loading parameters that coincide with the desired physical qualities such as aerobic power doing 60secs on with 120secs off @ 8rpe

- For footy do pick up and handball over 2 – 3m, pick up and kick over 30m etc repeating the skill for time

- This is best used as a transition training method

- In the off-season/early pre-season do heavy exercise with a little specific training and small sided game work

- In the early/mid pre-season use heavy specific training with top ups of exercise and the rest small sided games

- In the late pre-season use heavy small sided games with top ups of exercise and specific training

YOUR DAILY MINIMUM

- The ability to perform at 95% on a bad day is more important than the ability to work at 101% on a fully rested day and when your daily minimum goes up, then you’ve got better

WARM UP

- Utilse colors and verbal cues such as heiden jumps to a red, orange or yellow cone on command

- Try this with handball/kicking drills, agility shadow and tail tag in a boxed zone

LEVELS OF TRAINING

– Train to learn...Train to train...Train to compete...Compete to win

- Have an idea of where each player on your list is at within this progression and maybe use this as a way to group them up for more individualised training

VISION TRAINING (EYEGYM.COM)

- 80 – 90% of the info you base decisions on comes from the eyes

- Use pre-competition

- If each players makes 1 better decision per game than that’s 22 better decisions per game

- Do in a fatigued and non-fatigued state

RECOVERY NUTRITION

- Provide your team with something post-game like chocolate milk, fruit, sandwiches etc because the faster you can recover the faster you can train again at optimal fitness  and it will also decrease the risk of mid-week injury as you then won't be training on a Tuesday only partially recovered from Saturday

WORK RATE

- Less then 80 meters per minute is very poor

- 90m/min is poor

- 110m/min is fair

- 120m/min is good

- 160m/min is excellent

- Develop a training drill to replicate this?