9/23/2013

Planning the Training Week to Maximise Coaching Effectiveness and Player Learning

Damian Farrow

VU.EDU.AU/ISEAL

Background Context
Time poor need to be effective! Are you being as innovative / critical thinker as possible?
Are you able to challenge the sports science information? Are you able to challenge what was football gospel in your career

Session Aim
Develop/refine a weekly plan (pre / in-season) based on some underlying online and offline learning concepts

Does you weekly plan = reflect best practice?

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What are you Practicing For?

Learning

Learning
Encourage trial & error (doesnt look pretty)

Performance
Encourage consistency Stable practice conditions (as seen in familiar drills)

Motivation

High degree of movement variability

UNDERSTAND THAT CURRENT PERFORMANCE IS NOT LEARNING

Periodising Learning and Performance Needs

PRE-SEASON Learning
Week 1 90% Learning 10% Performance 25% Learning

IN-SEASON Performance
Week 1 75% Performance

Week 12 50 % Learning 50% Performance

Week 20 5% Learning 95% Performance Session / Drills

Performance Learning Performance Performance Performance

Session / Drills
Performance Learning Learning

MAXIMISING ONLINE LEARNING

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The 10,000 hour of practice should be as equally challenging as the first hour Load Management?

Can low intensity work transfer?

Game-Based Training Approaches More effective practice = reduced need for skill repetition

Balancing the needs of learning vs player confidence

Transfer of practice to game conditions depends on the extent to which practice resembles the game

Individual v team needs

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Self Regulation
Metacognition Motivation
Degree to which learners are self-efficaciously, autonomously and intrinsically motivated to achieve a specific goal

Behaviour

Awareness of and knowledge about ones own thinking

Tackle learning tasks proactively

TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OFFLINE LEARNING

- planning - self-monitoring - evaluation - reflection

- effort - self-efficacy

(Zimmerman, 1986, 1990, 2006; Ertmer & Newby, 1996)

Self Regulation & Ownership of Development

Key Discriminator Successful Athletes (Top 100) Superior Self Regulatory Skills

Top 100

T9 ...I took control of what I needed to do and what I wanted to do...I took information on very well and utilised what I felt I could to be the best

Are contemporary high performance programs set up for the development of players self-regulatory skills or are they achieving the opposite effect??

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Learning and Doing

Self Analysis

Impactful Meetings Analogies / Stories Stickability

Teach Others

Consider the Length / location / number/wk

Demons days: from go to doze

Emma Quayle Dec 8 2012 The Age
IT'S three o'clock in the afternoon, and Melbourne is asleep on the job. To be fair, though, it's part of the job. The Demons are two-thirds of their way through Three Block Wednesday, the most demanding, draining day of each week. They've trained for a couple of hours, they've wrestled on the gym floor and now it's time to recoup some energy before part three: a strength circuit and the watt bike session everyone has been dreading. The 45-minute recovery nap is new to Melbourne's preseason program, and optional. It's not for everyone, but 23 players are curled inside sleeping bags on the locker-room floor when the lights are flicked off and the door locked shut.

Sleep and Learning Consolidation

Sleep within 1st 24hrs following initial practice consolidates skill learning
Sleep dependent memory enhancement

Early morning awakenings may prevent learning maximization Naps sufficient (90 minutes) Have you located sleep after the key learning?

Walker & Stickgold (2005)

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Perception Without Awareness

Game Changers: How Videogames Trained a Generation of Athletes

Chris Suellentrop Wired January 25, 2010

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Extras

Touch sessions

Some Planning Questions

When do you include skill sessions? How many, time of day, what content follows? Where do you place meetings? What style are they (player or coach driven, small or large group)? Do you encourage a nap? When in program? What could be done to prime your players structurally, technology etc? Is the structure developing self-regulation? How often do you complete low intensity (touch) work? When? Think through sequencing of the sessions (are you planning for positive transfer (or inadvertently negative transfer)

Areas Meeting/s
Goal Kicking Team Meetings

Conditioning

1v1 Meeting

Weekly Program
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 8.00am Coaches Meeting (including 'What if' session) 9.30-10am Specific areas meeting Saturday 8.00 - 9.30 am Game Review (Coaches) 8.00-11am Skills & Weights Groups (1hr.30min/grp) 11.00am Football Training Main Session FREE DAY

10.00am Football Training (Captain's Run)

FREE TIME

8.30-12noon Recovery Session

9.00 - 1.30pm Individual Player Feedback (Coaches)

11.00 - 12.00pm Recovery 12.00pm Team Meeting

12-12.30pm Areas Meeting

2.00-3.00pm Game Review Team Meeting 3.00-4.00pm Football Training: Light Skills FREE TIME 3.00pm Weights FREE DAY FREE TIME GAME

FREE TIME