End of week 5

Over view of week 5

Monday: Joint plyometric and muscular endurance circuit
Wednesday: Straight line circuit
Friday: Strenght training

Review of week :

Monday:

Monday we were in the swing of the lesson, based on previous weeks session and current feedback, I am happy to stay with this joint circuit setup, I feel I get more effort from the team because they like it and i am still able to assess each individual on the exercises. The whole squad seemed very positive today, maybe because they had a good win on on Sunday against a a team at the top of the table. I took a lot of things from that win but mainly that they are not fatigued and losing games because of the extra training we have been doing. the coach was complementing that they looked sharp and sustained there effort levels throughout the entire match. the team simply put this down to having a good day but i am sure this training intervention will have something to do with it.

* Unfortunately I was told on mondays session that I would be losing 8 of my athletes on training exercise and they would not return until friday of week 6.- My action plan is to produce a training program for the 8 athletes to take away and follow to ensure they are still get quality training that is inline with the football teams fitness program.

 Wednesday:

Todays session seemed very quite but with 8 of the normal 20 missing it would. on the plus side todsys session i was able to analysis the athletes more integral, I stuck to the straight line circuit but thia tie i just used a lane of 2 this gave me more time criticing each athlete, not that many need it anymore. Today, due to low numbers,  I used the video camera on every athelte good/bad , I wanted them to tell me whether their form was correct or needed improving. This proved valuable as the athletes were then coaching eachother and I just supervised.

Friday:

Friday’s session was based on strength training, this session historically has been the easiest session to conduct but I feel with some of the key players away the remainder seem to be less motivated. I have gave them the incentive of once they finished their programme they could leave, what they didn’t realise was it would have finished earlier anyway because there was less people so there is more equipment per person. This lifted their spirit and the rest was fine, again I used video analysis even those who form was good, I just wanted to see if they knew there was good and why.

Summary:

All in all a good week the team have been doing this for 5 week now and the majority know what is expected of them, their form and technique has been very good but motivation was a little challenging at times. I am gutted that next week is my last week as I have really enjoyed this work placement, I am going to see if graham requires assistance on a more permanent basis.

My action Plan:

Is to develop a training plan for those that are away and I will get in touch with them this week to ensure that they are follow the program.