Step 1 is understanding how your brain actually functions best and fully grasping how you think and how these things impact the programs and coaching you deliver.
3 months agomdillon_33
From 23 years of experience agile periodization (ack. Mladen Jovanovic) is the most effective way to go. It preserves the long-term intent of an annual plan while allowing tactical adjustments to daily and weekly programming to be made. The annual plan establishes where you’re going, while agile decision making determines how you get there based on the current readiness of your athletes, and the real time demands of competition. For team sports this is especially important because rarely are you training to peak for a single competition. Instead, coaches must manage performance, recovery, and athletic development across a long season while facing constantly changing constraints. From experience working with athletes and team sports across all levels, an agile periodization approach provides the best balance of structure and flexibility, enabling a performance coach to consistently improve performance while adapting to the realities and constraints of competition. Agile periodization is like GPS navigation. When an unexpected road closure forces a detour, GPS will recalculate the route, but it doesn’t change the destination. It keeps you moving in the right direction while eventually getting you back on the correct route.
4 months ago_coach_em
This right here is something we all need to just talk about more. It will help the upcoming coaches realize that long term programming isn’t meant to be nailed down in fine detail. Instead have a goal you are aiming to achieve and then be able to adjust the day to day/ week to week things that can still have through lines to that goal(s) without it being exact for months on end
4 months agororgallagher
So including myself, it’s seems like 99% of the S&C coaches just in this comment section do pretty much what you’re saying
4 months agojaydenburnske
This is great stuff here! Coaches are afraid to work on their toes and expect everything to follow a plan when variables are constantly changing. When you make updates how often are you changing exercises for a full day? How do you loosely progress through exercises?
4 months agomogotraining
I do both. It’s like sailing. You want to go north, (macrocycle) But the winds today are blowing east (microcycle) and but waves of this sea are moving west (mesocycles). Set the sails; adjust your rudders but know your destinations.
4 months agojbraythecoach
Year plan for general big things & guidance. Monthly for games & practices 2-4 weeks (tops) for a block of training. Add in daily/weekly chats with coaches and you’re golden.
4 months agocbracci1
Agree 110%, I train 450+ HS kids a day year round. 2/3 of those kids are multi-sport athletes. Between the number of breaks, assemblies, class trips, state testing, school closures due to weather, games that get cancelled, rescheduled, etc (also a big reason why I got rid of deload weeks). I gave up on annual planning and do everything in 3-week blocks. Adjust volume accordingly for in-season teams/game days.
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