We train to get better at games, that’s a given. The biggest problem that we all know is there is that you can’t just play games of football each and every week for fear of injury so we need to find other ways to train simulated under similar but different, conditions. My personal belief is...
Category: Training Drills
TRAINING ON THE EDGE – PSYCHOLOGICAL CO-ACTIVE
Part 1 – Training on the Edge Introduction Part 2 – Training on the Edge Kick Development Part 3 – Training on the Edge Decision Making Today we have a look at training on the edge in regards to the psychological co-active, or mental strength, but just a quick reminder of what training the edge really means...
TRAINING ON THE EDGE- DECISION MAKING
Part 1 – Training on the Edge Introduction Part 2 – Training on the Edge Kick Development Today we have a look at training on the edge in regards to decision making but just a quick reminder of what training the edge really means which is “training a player at a specific level that lies...
TRAINING ON THE EDGE – KICK DEVELOPMENT
A quick recap from the introduction yesterday that refers to training on the edge as “training a player at a specific level that lies just above or below their level of capability.” Here’s a quick way you can train kicking development in each and every player within a team training setting. Here’s what the basic...
KEEPING DEFENSIVE SHAPE TRAINING DRILL
Earlier this week I posted a presentation video titled 10 Steps to Developing Training Drills Through Your Game Model. In it it provided you with some general guidance on what a game model entails, how you go about developing it and then how it can drive what you train and how you train it. It’s...
MIXED SQUARES TRAINING DRILL (3 DRILLS)
Players Required: 35 – 40 in total (but alter numbers and area size to fit your training numbers) Balls Required: 3 in total Space Required: 65 x 45m Drill Level: Easy to Moderate Pretty simple here. Drill #1 – 4v4 handball in the smaller 10 x 10m square that could be even smaller to be...
FORWARDS RUNNING PATTERN DRILL + PROGRAM
Local/amateur football training is extremely GENERAL where everyone does the same skill work and the same running work regardless of positional requirements. I’ll give this a pass “for now” because that’s how it’s always been done but from now on it’s not good enough and coaches need to do better. With time being maybe the...
4v1 RONDO PROGRESSIONS/LAYERS (7 OPTIONS)
I’ve posted plenty of Rondo progressions before and here are some more. Rondo drills are easy to set up and easy to constrain so training doesnlt need to be stop start to reintroduce totally different drills for 2hrs. You could use 3 – 5 layers for the single set up for agood 20 – 30min...
3 TEAM 4v2 TRAINING DRILL
When you’re the single coach in charge of 30 – 40 players at once, training drills that can be used in a multitude of ways and thus requiring just the initial set up of that drill, is a life saver. Between having players go out to drills, come back in, have a drink and “do...
THE LEARNING PROCESS (ARTICLE + TRAINING DRILL)
Here are some notes from an article by Australian Sports Phyiso Greg Dea based here in Melbourne who has some excellent content that can be applied to most sports. This one specifically discusses the learning process and I’ve added a training drill based around this as well. Here they are: There’s a difference between performance...