Structuring The Session

LEARNING INTENTION:

Understand how to conduct the layout of a traditional training lesson.

HOW THIS RELEVANT TO ME:

This will ensure each lesson is meaningful and has progression.

SUCCESS CRITERIA:

Complete a lesson plan for a training session.

Creating a session plan is essential in staying organised and prepared as a coach. It helps the coach to identify the objectives of a session, design suitable activities and provides an opportunity to evaluate and make changes for future sessions.

STEP 1: Safety Considerations

Safety considerations involve identifying risks, conducting risk assessments, and implementing control measures to ensure a safe environment by assessing, managing, and mitigating potential hazards effectively.

Risks to consider include:

⚡ Slips, trips and falls ⚡ Rusty equipment

⚡ Holes in the ground ⚡ Cleaning

⚡ Fire ⚡ Amount of people

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Club Matters - Creating a Risk Assessment SO.pdf

STEP 2: Warm up / Cool Down

The main purpose of the warm up is to prepare the muscles, tendons, joints and mind for more strenuous activity.

Other benefits include:

💚Increasing the body’s and muscle core temperature. This allows the muscles to become loose, supple (move easily) and pliable (flexible).

💚Increasing both your heart rate and your respiratory rate. This increases blood flow, which in turn increases the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the working muscles.

💚 Minimises risk of injury.

How to Structure Your Warm Up?

It’s important to start with the easiest and most gentle activity first, building upon each part with more energetic activities, until the body is at a physical and mental peak.

1. The general warm up;

2. Static stretching;

3. The sports specific warm up;

4. Dynamic stretching;

Important: All four parts are equally important and any one part should not be neglected or thought of as not necessary. All four components work together to bring the body and mind to a physical peak, ensuring the athlete is prepared for the activity to come. This process will help ensure the athlete has a minimal risk of sports injury.

1. Identify which image is an example of the 4 different components of a warm up.

STEP 3: Introduction / Demonstration

When meeting a new group or even starting a new session, it is important to introduce yourself, connect with the athletes and ensure that they feel comfortable to ask questions and talk to you if they are having problems.

You should also introduce the skills or activities that you will be working on and talk about how and where they fit into the overall play of the game. Making these links helps athletes to see the value of the activities and skills and also to enhance their understanding of the game and its intricacies.

2. Read through the 5 Tips for Effective Demonstrations and summarise the main findings.

5 Tips For Effective Demonstrations In Coaching — Amplified Soccer TrainingDemonstrations are accessible to all types of learners because something that is seen, is a lot easier to digest then receiving the same information verbally. Being able to see the skill live, allows the player to store a picture of what you want in their memory and replay it until they learn it the

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STEP 4: Skill Development and Practice

STEP 1 Perform the skill

STEP 2 Master the skill with quality feedback

STEP 3 Execute the skill at speed

STEP 4 Perform under fatigue

STEP 5 Handle pressure while executing

STEP 6 Maintain consistency in training and competition

STEP 7 Consistently perform under competition conditions

Skill Progression

3. Select any skill and provide an example as to how you would implement the 7 steps of skill development.

For example: Dribbling a ball

STEP 1 attempt at bouncing a basketball on the spot

STEP 2 seek feedback from the coach to bounce the ball consistently

STEP 3 start bouncing the ball whilst walking to pick up the speed

STEP 4 bounce the ball up and down the courts for 10mins without a break

STEP 5 add in a defender whilst dribbling the ball down the court

STEP 6 play a modified game of basketball to increase the pressure

STEP 7 play a realistic game under competition conditions and rules

STEP 5: Cool Down

A cooldown in sports refers to the period of low-intensity activity that follows intense exercise or competition. Its purpose is to gradually reduce heart rate, breathing rate, and body temperature, helping the body transition from vigorous activity to a resting state. This helps prevent dizziness, light-headedness, or muscle soreness and aids in the recovery process by promoting the removal of waste products such as lactic acid from the muscles.

Cool-down activities often include:

💚 light jogging

💚 stretching

💚 gentle exercises specific to the muscles used during the activity

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STEP 6: Evaluation

After each session it is important to evaluate your session. You are aiming to improve your effectiveness by identifying any issues or problems and then set out a plan for the next session.

4. Your teacher will teach you a new skill that is unfamiliar to you. Observe the steps taken master the skill in your next practical lesson.

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