Category: Training Drills

After posting 171 streamline activities with just a brief written description, I’ve now probably got more diagram activities in my files that I haven’t posted, then written one’s. Today introduces the first whiteboard edition which are still streamlined but require a visual to get started, with activities #172 – #181 consisting a simple image with...

A new edition of this covering training activities #152 – #171 and as usual there’s only a quick explanation, no diagrams or images. #152 – 3 x 3v2 1 big playing area divided into 3 squares with a 3v2 offensive advantage in each square with all players locked. Goals at each end for each team...

As promised, here’s the rest of the training activities I’ve used with my senior women’s football team so far this year and to back up on previous posts, you want just enough variety to still provide enough repetition at the activities that best replicate what you want to see in games which builds adaptability. If...

Haven’t posted one of these for a while so I have a back log of training activities to post so I’ll do a 13 (13! 13!!!) today and another 15 or whatever’s left next week to catch all the way up on these. You’ll notice that a lot of them are similar in how they...

Back in late January I started a series of posts of the different training activities I’ve been using with my senior women’s team and within that came something called differential learning. No 2 kicks are ever the same in a game of footy with the multitude of constraints the game is played under such as...

I haven’t posted one of these for a while so just remember that these training activities simply have a brief description and that’s it – no images, diagrams and pictures to accompany them. Let’s get to activities 132 – 151. #132 – 2 x 5v4 The play starts with a kick out from the goal...

Most coaches don’t have a handle on the continuum of learning and exploration during training activities either running the same exact activities too much where learning, engagement and motivation decreases with each successive repeat, or changing things up too much where there is not enough exposure to a similar environment and the affordances in that...

I haven’t posted one of these for ages so just remember that these training activities simply have a brief description and that’s it – no images, diagrams and pictures to accompany them. Let’s get to activities 122 – 131. #122 -PASSING CIRCLE You’ve got 3 colored teams of 3 with 1 from each team in...

We’re 15 training sessions for deep for pre-season 2025 so here’s a 5th edition of what I’ve ran with my senior women’s team so far. After working a lot on individual action capabilities we’re now starting to get a little more structure-focused and developing more off and away from the ball actions in the game....

The girls and I completed session #13 for pre-season 2025 last night and it was our best yet with a great turn out numbers-wise that allowed us to play an actual game within a large area. I found out somethings that some players were able to do that we hadn’t been able to see yet...