Sports Training

Sports training need objectives. Especially if it's a competitive sport with competition seasons. Progressive training plan with set milestone objectives should be laid out.

Drills involving repetitive movements to train proprioceptive memory is only effective if it can be linked to further exercises that involve the drilled skills in game-like scenarios. If people are not performing under game pressure, that means the drills practiced were not made relevant and needs to be reassessed/modified/adapted/improved.

Objectives of drill tasks should be made explicit, and checks available to ensure that they are achieved. If drills are unsuccessful most of the time, it should be reassessed. Success should be a goal for drills, even easy success, before progressing on to more difficult drill tasks.

In games, the most important thing is possession. Reckless attacks which risks losing the ball is suicidal. Patience to go for the kill at the opportune moment is vital.

Aggression and 100% effort is necessary in training as well as competition. Incidentally, these act as indicators for the hunger of the team to succeed. If people are not substituting each other because they are too tired to continue, that means effort expended is not sufficient for the game to be competitive.

Everyone is only as good as the weakest standard in the team.