A guide for coaches
Six pieces about the work around training: how a season is laid out, what belongs in a plan, what gets written down and why.
The annual training plan: how a season is laid outA season is not built week by week. How to lay out an annual training plan: the competition calendar as the starting point, three periods, and what to decide in advance.
What belongs in a training session planThe shape of one session: warm-up, main part and cool-down, how much time each deserves, and how to write a plan somebody else could run in your place.
Training attendance: what to record and what it answersAttendance is not admin. What to record, why the difference between injured, ill and absent changes decisions, and what the record answers months later.
Animated drills: when arrows are not enoughA drill drawn with arrows does not say when anything happens. How an animated drill settles order and timing, and what is worth drawing and what is not.
Planning a water polo session: the water, the slot and the boardWater polo is planned around constraints other sports do not have: the pool slot, shared water, and the time lost getting in and out.
Player measurements: what to measure and how oftenA measurement means something only when it is repeated under the same conditions. What to track across a season, how often, and how to read the result without overreading it.
All of it in one place: the season, the week in the calendar, attendance, measurements and drills that move. Seven sports, each on its own board.
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