GAMECHANGER ELITE PLAYER/TREAM PREPARATION – 4 CO-ACTIVES

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

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...

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LOWER BODY STRENGTH PROGRAM

by swans05, posted in Training Programs

Just over 4 years ago I did a little post on Nat Fyfe’s body transformation, especially his legs, from his first 4 – 5 years in the AFL system, and had won his first Brownlow Medal the year prior to that. In a game that requires speed, endurance, strength and resiliency from injury/collisions, a strong...

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GAMECHANGER ELITE PLAYER/TEAM PREPARATION – TEAM DEFENSE

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

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...

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RONDO TRAINING DRILL

by swans05, posted in 20 Game Sense Drills Vol 1, Free, Training Drills

A Rondo training drill is a soccer-based exercise and is essentially a game of keeping’s off but with these characteristics: Confined Area Keep possession while completing a series/number of passes Attacking players generally outnumber the defending players Stationary but involved players surround the playing area As per Dutch soccer player and coach Johan Cruyff, everything...

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GAMECHANGER ELITE PLAYER/TEAM PREPARATION – COACHING

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

As my playing career is entering its final years (probably not), I’ve made a pretty big shift in reading up on coaching more so then training in the last 18 months or so and is what lead me to purchasing this book in the first place. In that time and reflecting on all the footy...

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KICK TO KICK WITH PURPOSE

by swans05, posted in 20 Game Sense Drills Vol 1, Training Drills

A lot of footy we practice is played with mates in a non-structured way which is fine but if you can add some purpose into what you’re doing than you can still have all the fun you want to trying all the kicks you want to, but with a little extra intent that can have...

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ACCELERATION LEVEL 1

by swans05, posted in Training Programs

All speed starts with acceleration and is a physical quality all of itself. It is the gradual build up of speed towards hitting your max velocity/top end speed and the better you can accelerate from a mechanics point of view, the better and thus faster you’ll be at max velocity. During a game of footy...

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HANDBALL TOUCHES

by swans05, posted in 20 Game Sense Drills Vol 1, Training Drills

The shape of our ball is like no other so being able to grabn the ball and grip it how you like in a split second is essential to shape skill development. Here’s a quick handball warm up you can use with players of any age and ability and all you need is 2 players...

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GAMECHANGER ELITE PLAYER/TEAM PREPARATION – TRAINING

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

In this article we look at the 25+ points I noted down in relation to actual training, team and individual from the Gamechanger book. I just received his new book in the mail Friday too so there’s a heap more where this comes from. Strap yourselves in… GAME SIMULATION I call it tempo footy because...

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GAMECHANGER ELITE PLAYER/TEAM PREPARATION – GAME MACRO MOMENTS

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

This time last year I was finishing up Gamechanger by Fergus Connolly, a book on individual and team preparation for team sports, and is probably the greatest thing I’ve read on the subject in my life. It has totally changed my idea’s on training and coaching. I did a 14 part post series on it...

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