THE SESSION

Continuous time dedicated to training (usually in football 2-3-4 sessions each microcycle / week or with a double weekly session), in which a set of tasks are performed, ordered in relation to:

  • The objectives set.
  • The time and space available.
  • The dynamics of loads (daily and weekly).
  • Fatigue and the aspects that characterize the development of the different capacities and objectives of each area planned for that day (training or competition).
  • The period/day in which it is carried out (meso-cycle/micro-cycle)

The session can have one character:

  • Mono-disciplinary (different tasks related to a single area).
  • Poly-disciplinary (Tasks will belong to different areas of training).

In any case, the session involves a type of load that must be specified and quantified (at least globally) according to its duration, intensity, volume, metabolic pathway requested as a priority.

GUIDELINES FOR DESIGNING THE SESSION:

  • From the monitoring of the program: 
    • In relation to what is established in the planning (in the meso-cycle and the corresponding micro-cycle), of the season / cycle in which we work. 
    • Determine the area(s) to be developed (in relation to what was established in the day/session within the corresponding micro-cycle). 
    • Take into account the loads set for this day/session.

    Based on the analysis of the competition: 

    • Partialize the overallity of the competition in Competition Units (distinguishing the Offensive phase from the Defensive Phase. 
    • Determine the errors manifested in the competition and the causes that have caused them, through the analysis of each Game Situation: 
      • From the team. 
      • From several lines of play. 
      • From a line of play. 
      • 1 or several players.
      • The aspects of execution (technical, tactical, physical), or decision (Collective Actions or Collective Situations), incorrectly manifested. 
      • The variants to be used (if applicable) depending on the conditions of:
      • Our team. 
      • The opposition. 

       

      LET'S PERFORM AN ANALYSIS OF A TAB OF THE SESSION

      Group:

      children - -

      MICRO-cycle SESSION:

      -4th -

      Category: 

      Season:

      Microcycle: -1-

      Total session: 4/120

      Date:  

      Area Manager:

      *session control data

       

      *MACROCYCLE OF: ⎕introduction -⎕Realization -⎕Adjustment -⎕Evaluation -⎕Recovery -⎕rest

      *MICROCYCLE OF: ⎕Medium load -⎕Intense high load) -⎕Very high load (shock, accumulation,...) -⎕Low load (regeneration).

      *data of the characteristics of the session in relation to the macro and microcycle in which it works

       

      Not attending/(reason):

       

      *attendance control

       

      * Talk (analysis of the match) // medical aspects // Psychological training // prepare competition: 

      PREPARE THE MATCH

      (prepare the coach)

       ⇨ / - call date: time:

      *Notes to highlight: 

       

      *Objective corresponding to the "previous activity – in the dressing room" (the blank boxes imply that it is a job to be programmed by the coach

       

      *Recovery/Prevention// strength (with specific warm-up) //training. resistance // speed/activation (with specific heating):

      Exercise no.: 03101502

      RESISTANCE WORK: in pre-season

      * Aerobic resistance - anaerobic resistance. - Speed resistance - recovery work...)

      * Collective Actions -I- (fundamentals) // tactics -I- //collective game in attack //collective game in defense // movements of the system // the defensive game // technique -I-:

      Exercise no.: 03011206

      TECHNICAL -I-: Decontextualized action with opposition "reception"

      * With minimal opposition, numerical superiority/equality -Exercise level: "low/medium"

      *Collective Actions -II- (fundamentals) //tactics -II- //party + strategies //technique -II-:

      Exercise no.: 03011206

      TECHNICAL -II-: Decontextualized action with opposition "reception"

      * With minimal opposition, numerical superiority/equality -Exercise level: "medium/high"

      * Porters (individual work -collective work):

      Exercise no.: 03090100

      GOALKEEPER: "INDIVIDUAL WORK"

      * Specific Motor Skills without opposition displacements (frontal - lateral - dorsal)

      *Objectives corresponding to the activities: 1(adaptation) – 2 (main) – 3(reinforce) – 4 (specific work).

      The yellow boxes are an already developed target. The green boxes new targets. 

       

      * OBSERVATIONS PRE AND POST TRAINING: *analysis of the   training //proposals for the next training...

      *the coach will write down the circumstances that occur 

       

      *RECOVERY WORK: 

      Exercise No.: 03102800

       

      *to be developed where necessary

       

      Let's see TWO examples of the distribution of all the aspects that can contemplate a training session:

      1ST SAMPLE OF THE ASPECTS THAT CAN BE CONFIGURED IN A TRAINING SESSION

      5/10m.

      Presentation of the objectives of the session

      Talks in the dressing room (whiteboard – video -...)

      10m

      Adaptation

      Warm-up (with or without ball/ rondo - stretching conducted - coordination activities, ...)

      10/20m.

      Part 1

      Introductory

      Objective Analysis (Corrective games – corrective exercises – football games – "specific rondos" – chained passing games -...)

      *In each part, before starting the exercise, the coach or specialist will expose to the players the work to be done (in a rondalla for 2-5 m.)

      10/20m.

      Part 2

      Approximation

      Goal Development (Routines – ACC -JFER– MS – Game routes -...)

      10/20m.

      Part 3

      Main

      Corrections on what has been developed (Positioning game – Work of lines -...)

      10/20m.

      Part 4

      Conclusions

      Real Game to assess what has been achieved (50% – 11:11 – strategies -...)

      5/10m.

      Final Part

      Return to calm

       

      Free stretches -

      *Part of the squad to the dressing room

      10-20m.

      Work

      specific

      Work for the specific improvement of some individual or collective aspect with 1 player, a demarcation or a line of play:

      • Classroom (audiovisual – blackboard -...)
      • Field (greenboard
      • Analysis work
      • Progressive lines -...)

       

      *Goalkeepers can work the entire session separately, until they are called to participate with the team (one or both). The rest will be able to continue working specifically.

      *Parallel to the work of the team, a recovery work will be carried out with the injured players directed and individualized.

      *The physical trainer, in addition to stretching and warming up, will control the work times, intensity and recovery time of the different activities that are carried out during the session.

       

      2ND SAMPLE OF THE ASPECTS THAT CAN BE CONFIGURED IN A TRAINING SESSION

      ACTIVITY

      ORGANIZATION

      WORKING TIME

      RECOMMENDED DIDACTIC FORMS

      1

      Costume work:

      • Presentation/Presentation of the objective to be trained.
      • Theoretical development.
      • Psychological Training.

      15/45 m.

       Before field time.

      • Video.
      • Slate.
      • Theoretical talk.

      2

      Initial adaptation work:

      • Heating:
        • Standard.
        • Special (in specific situations or characteristics).
        • According to the type of activity to be carried out.
      • Flexibility Work:
        • To prevent injuries.
        • Of "improvement" urgently.
        • Adaptation to work.
      • Speed Work.

      10/30m.

      • Circuit
      • EC
      • Rondos
        • technician
        • tactical
        • collective
        • completion 
        • ...).
      • Coordination Activities.
      • Simple ACC.

      3

      Introduction/Approach to the objective:

      • Know on the field of play the aspects to work.
      • Force Work.

      10/30m.

      • JF
      • JC
      • EC
      • Green Slate.
      • M and E
      • ACC
      • Progressive Lines

      4

      Main Work:

      • Development of the objective to be improved.
      • Resistance Work (applied).

      10/30m.

      • TL (in attack and defense).
      • JP
      • Play routines.

      5

      Final Work/conclusions:

      • Collective Play
        • Review of the objective through real game activities.
      • Return to calm.
      • Stretching:
        • Recovery.
        • Free.
      • Specific Resistance Work.
      • Analysis of the work developed and / or what was achieved in the session.

      10/30m.

      • 7:7
      • 11:11
      • 50%
      • JFER
      • Physical Routes.

      6

      Specific Work:

      • Specific work with goalkeepers.
      • Work with a certain demarcation(s).
      • I work with a game line(s).
      • I work in the gym.
      • Medical aspects.
      • The time needed.
      • At the end of the training.
      • The "Analysis" Work will be developed from the 2nd Phase.
      • Strategy-specific work

      *Goalkeeperscan work the entire session separately, until they are called to participate with the team (one or both).

      The rest will be able to continue working specifically.

      *Parallel to the work of the team,a directed and individualized recovery work will be carried out with the injured players.