Programming
IN THIS SECTION WE WILL DEVELOP:
- ASPECTS RELATED TO PROGRAMMING,
- THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS IN WHICH IT IS DIVIDED,
- THE CHARACTERISTICS INVOLVED IN WORKING WITH PLAYERS OF THIS STAGE (CHILDREN) AND
- THE ASPECTS RELATED TO THE DIDACTIC FORMS AND THEIR APPLICATION:
- Programming.
- Macrocycles.
- Mesocycles.
- The microcycle.
- The session.
- Tasks/activities.
- The Didactic Forms.
- Aspects for its application.
- Establish guidelines to balance the numerical relationship in the exercise, so that all players (squad) participate in the same work (didactic form)
PROGRAMMING
ASPECTS TO CONSIDER WHEN PLANNING AND SCHEDULING THE SEASON.
The job that is usually entrusted to the coach at the beginning of the season is to train a certain team, and to do so in order to achieve specific objectives at the end of "this" season.
On the other hand, the Technical Management will assess the Global objectives of the process (Phases – Stages), analyzing the annual "sub-objectives" (cycles / seasons) that the different teams and players must assume.
The development of the Training Process will be adjusted, therefore, to a basically annual planning that must be developed by the technicians of each team and that will be interrelated in the 9-10 years / cycles that make up the Phases and Stages of this Process.
For each season/cycle, general objectives and specific objectives of each area will be determined, which will be related to the following aspects:
- The General and Specific Objectives of the Process.
- The General and Specific Objectives of each Phase/Stage.
- The objectives of each "macrocycle" that must be taken into account in the planning of each mesocycle.
- The age, federative category and level of competition (division) of the Players.
- The Quality/Talent of the players.
- The work done by each team in the previous cycle/season.
- The Principles of Specificity, Continuity, Progression and Periodization.
- In each planning we will take into account:
- The objectives of face-to-face training
- The characteristics of the macrocycle to which each mesocycle corresponds.
ADAPTATION OF THE PLAYERS OR THE TEAM TO THE LEVEL CORRESPONDING TO THEIR STAGE.
When starting the work with the group, there may be an aspect that hinders, and even distorts our mission, such as an insufficient level with which the players arrive since they may not have developed an adequate process. For example, a first-year children's team that has not worked in the previous phases/seasons a logical, progressive and related work.
Obviously, we must also take into account this circumstance when new players are incorporated, to a team that has developed a correctly planned work; that is, we must ensure that the updating of the new ones does not delay the progression of the rest.
The coach must therefore take into account these circumstances, know the planning of the entire process and establish during the first cycle / season, the aspects to "recover" from the previous cycles not developed, combining them in training with the objectives of "their" stage / cycle.
Let's look at an example:
The coach who is going to develop his work with a 2nd year fry, is aware that the team, in the previous seasons, did not follow any logical or progressive process. In this situation, the coach (or where appropriate jointly with the technical director) must:
- Analyze, from the previous cycles (in this case the Promotion Phase and the two previous cycles of Initiation -benjamín of 2nd year and fry of 1st. year-), which are, in relation to each of the areas to work, the most important aspects that should be developed to achieve, the minimum adequate level that would allow you to achieve the objectives of the age / phase / stage in which your team is.
When analyzing the area of the technique, it determines that this 2nd year fry, must work during this season the objectives set in Level -5- together with Level -6c-.
- In this way, the coach will review the objectives set in the previous levels (1 to 4 and 6a and 6b) of the technique, determining, what are the aspects raised in these levels, that "their players" should master for a correct progression and adaptation in this area during the work of the current season.
- Once the aspects to be recovered have been determined, the coach must analyze his players, specifying which aspects they do not master in order to recover them in training and ignore those in which the players already manifest an adequate level.
- Once the aspects to be recovered have been determined and specified, they must be incorporated into the planning of this area in the different sessions of the season, together with the own objectives corresponding to the age of the players, so that at the end of the cycle / season the players who need it have updated their level and can continue their training in a coherent and logical way.
Another different case is when the team to work belongs to the technification stage (for example: a first-year cadet), since in this case the objectives and levels to be recovered are usually really difficult to update, due to:
- The high number of objectives that make up the previous levels.
- The age of the players, which is not the best to acquire certain objectives.
- The gap between the objectives to be recovered and those to be worked on, typical of the team's cycle/season.
- In this case we must:
- Analyze through the competition, the aspects (established in the previous levels) that cause errors in the player's game and that will be related to the "Forms of Play" of the team, with the demarcation in which it plays, and that are typical of the needs of its game and its characteristics.
- Dedicate in the training session, the necessary time to "correct" these deficiencies, not to improve "your" technical level, but to increase the level of effectiveness of your game in relation to the aspects established in the previous levels.
In this case we limit the objectives to be recovered, and we specify them to the necessary aspects that are typical of the player's game, in relation only to the needs established, for him, in the team's game.