Planning and Organising a Training Session - Doncaster Hockey Club

Planning and Organising a Training Session
When planning your training session it is important to establish the following.
~ What do you as a coach want to achieve?
~ What do you as a coach want the players to achieve?
Once you have decided on the above, you obviously then need to plan your
training session.
Now here is the tip. From your point of view, don’t overload your workload
as a coach.
If you want a certain aspect of your teams game addressed at training, then
concentrate your training around that particular skill.
There is a big difference between SKILL training and DRILL training.
Choose a number of drills that involve the skill you want to work on. I am sure
you are able to come up with a number of different drills that address a particular
skill.
Once training has commenced try not to get distracted if other skills are not quite
up to scratch. All that will happen is that you will run around at training trying to
fix a number of different problems, and come the end of the session, the skill you
wanted to fix will not be anywhere near the point you would have liked.

To date, what we have done with our training session is;
1 Planned
2 Implemented
When your training session has finished it is important that you;
3 Review//Evaluate.
I have found on of the easiest ways to do this is with simple YES, NO questions.
Did I achieve at training today what I wanted to achieve? YES or NO
If you get a yes, Good For You. If you get a NO then just ask yourself, why not?
There could be a very simple reason things didn’t go quite as well as you wanted.
For example, you may have planned a majority of your session around the
distribution in your mid-field, and guess who does not come to training. Your
centre half.
This is one of those things that you don’t have any control over, so don’t let it
worry you.
However, there may well be some drills that just don’t accomplish what you
wanted and this is why we review our sessions. Make a note of those drills that
have not worked and either modify what you have done or simply don’t use it
again.
It is important that you also review your training sessions with your players on a
regular basis. Get their feedback on how certain sessions went and if they felt
they were worthwhile.
If you are uncomfortable in addressing the whole team with this review, then just
involve your captain and vice captain or senior players.