If there's 1 mission in my life worth fulfilling it's to eradicate the endless laps footy teams do at training before, during and after training.
It's boring, it's useless and it's taking precious training time, of which local/amateur teams already struggle with, away from far more productive things they could be doing like skill and/or tactical work.
I've actually suggested to my new senior coach (but previous club player) to get rid of laps but we'll see how he goes with that!
The main focus of a warm up is to:
- Increase muscle temperature
- Increase joint range of motion
- Prepare the mind and body for intense training
Laps are not conducive to any of these and if I have to be truly honest, it's pure laziness from the coach who's often buying time to think up, or set up, the next training activity.
Get organised and get rid of them!
Here's a warm up drill where your entire team is pretty much on the move constantly, uses balls and also a variety of "touch" drills - often these drills are performed separately but it's makes far more sense to mix them together to fit the unpredictability and randomness of a game of footy.
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