Category: Training/Coaching Articles

This is the final post in this series and will touch on these points: Recovery Nutrition Technical Co-Active Locationing Game Day Game Pace Structure Tactics Game Style RECOVERY A 7 day recovery periodisation starting from post game should look something like this: Saturday Post Game – cold recovery/compression clothing/protein drink Sunday – self massage/flush Monday...

Aussie Rules Football, and especially the AFL’s rulebook, is forever changing with the aim being to improve how the game is played whenever a rule change is introduced. They’re a funny bunch the AFL as they like change in area’s the viewer doesn’t seem to care about yet won’t change in other area’s that blind...

What you’re about to read is a sort-of-backwards approach to women’s footy I’ve been thinking about for a while now that might be worth a shot at trying for a lone wolf, left field, unpredictable and innovative women’s coach out there. I’ve been mulling over how to do this post for a while but it’s...

TRAINING DRILLS Yes, we’ve already got a separate training drills section on the site but here are some idea’s pointers to keep in mind when developing your own training drills: Use training drills that require verbal and non-verbal communication over cone-to-cone variations to build rhythm and also for players to get to know each other’s...

Much like life, football is multiple high dosages of stress. Physical stress. Psychological stress. Systemic stress. Localised stress. Good stress. Bad stress. Certain amounts of stress/overload is required to progress or get better at anything in life, but because even the tiniest amount of excess stress can have dramatically negative affects on performance, knowing how...

The psychological co-active is the most underutilised co-active which needs to change if you want fully developed players. but it’s hard to quantify which is probably why it doesn’t get the attention it should. To build the psychological co-active for each individual player, coaches need to set aside time to get to know players on...

This post will look at some lesser known aspects of the physical co-active which goes a lot further into the hole then a 2km time trial as well as the ridiculously underutilised psychological co-active – an area at local/amateur level that can have perhaps the greatest affect on your team and players performance then anything...

Successful teams possess high culture values and more importantly, follow through on them in good and bad times. To do this you must: Create an identifiable culture anchored by unshakable beliefs and values View problems as opportunities Get comfortable being uncomfortable Refuse to accept nothing but the best which is often what you’ll get when...

One of the major driving themes of the Game Changer book is the 4 co-actives being: Tactical Technical Psychological Physical Every singular action in any sport involves these 4 aspects so it stands to reason that you must expose your players to all of them in training to prepare them for game day. TACTICAL Tactical...

There’s not a lot of man-to-man defense in AFL or local/amateur footy anymore with the emphasis moving to a team defense through the use of zones and compression of space in your won forward line. That being said there are still times that defenders can caught in 1-on-1 situations but these days it is minimised...