When most players and coaches talk of increasing endurance/fitness, for reasons I don't know it's all about how far you an push and how much work you can still do even when you're tired, and thus thy train like that.
Skills performed under great fatigue.
Push through hard to the cones.
Follow up your mistakes.
Do extra punishments for skill errors.
It's all fatigue based.
I now it's partly about discipline and things of that nature but you really need to lock this into your brain:
FATIGUE IS THE ENEMY
When fatigue sets in your sprinting speed decreases, your skills deteriorate, your decision making falls right away and thus your overall effectiveness is dramatically.
If it was a game situation and you saw a player laboring heavily, you'd take them off the ground as soon as you could because they can no longer be effective until they have a bout of recovery.
So why train under fatigue when you don't really want to play like that?
It makes no sense but this is what these posts are all about, providing thought pieces for players and coaches to read, analyse and conclude how they see fit.
With players with varying degrees of fitness and abilities, fatigue will be present during training and that's fine but as a coach, you should be wary of what this is doing to player development.
Firstly skills performed poorly, with poor technique and mechanics, is what the body will learn and ingrain which will result in bad kicking even in a state of non-fatigue.
Poor running mechanics will also be ingrained which will result in poor endurance, poor speed and potential increased risk of injury from overuse and overloading of muscles not prepared to be able to do the job.
What should you do?
There's a point in time during the pre-season where training beyond fatigue is a good idea but January isn't it (a post for early next week).
For now you should be training to just under or just at fatigue and then resting, so as to maintain a high degree of skill level, maintain high speed and to maintain good decision making in tactical drills.
If you keep training players in a fatigued state and expect skills and decisions to improve then you need to go back to coaching school, wherever that is.
If you are wanting to induce some fatigue than that's fine but do it after all skill development is completed, after all speed work is completed and in low doses.
Always remember that it takes a lot of high quality input to improve things like speed and skills but a fraction of that in bad quality to undo all of your good work so keep that in mind when doing repeat runs and such at this time of the year.
My suggestion is to continue to focus high quality training until at least mid-Feb, and once skills and once skills have and speed have been improved upon, which they can't be in the presence of fatigue.
The teams I have been doing pre-season training for so all their endurance running at the end of the session without balls - just straight up running which is boring, bit is more effective and efficient then trying to combine methods and getting better at none of them.
Fatigue training probably bests trains the mind to perform at a high level under fatigue but without a high base level of speed and skill, fatigue training makes slow players slower and poor skill levels poorer.
This thought process is a little against the grain so let me know your feedback and questions on this.
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