Coaching football session that was coached by Charlie Legg, football coach of the youth football academy (under19) of city college Plymouth. This session was observed during the 16th of November at 3:00 o’clock. The session was done in an hour and a half. When the session started the coach started talking with the player about what they want to train on that specific day, this allowed the player to analyse their own weaknesses and decide what to do to work on them, the coach then steps back and reflects on what they are doing and gives pointers from time to time. Cassidy, Jones and Potrac (2009) suggest that reflecting isn’t something that should always be necessary but while it’s still good to do it, simply by reflecting on certain drills,
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According to Gordon (2009) the way to set a goal properly would be know your athlete, if the coach can’t understand the athlete they are working with he won’t know what make them tick and because of the setting goals may just not work. The athletes the coach Charlie Legg was training were at a youth level so the goals that were set were short term goals, Gordon (2009) agrees that when it comes to novice athletes, the goal should be a short term one, this will not only help the athlete with attaining a particular skill but also confidence from gaining that same …show more content…
In the review of literature (Nakamura et al. , 2012) it states that doing plyometric for the period of 8 weeks improved the sprint time when it comes to 0 to 10m sprinting. This proves that doing plyometric will indeed help football players with their explosiveness since the times of 10m decrease by doing this kind of training. The coach also explained how to do the plyometric exercise mechanically,
While they were doing speed and agility drills the coach Charlie Legg, asked the athletes to pay attention to what he was going to do and he exemplified what needed to be done for that drill, he was going through the mechanics of running and what you need to do when you are in certain parts of the drills, this allows for a better performance and also technique can only improve by doing this, according to Gamble (2013) the time that the foot has to be touching the floor need to be minimal, this will then be referred interval in which the athlete has the chance to push
According to Gordon (2009) the way to set a goal properly would be know your athlete, if the coach can’t understand the athlete they are working with he won’t know what make them tick and because of the setting goals may just not work. The athletes the coach Charlie Legg was training were at a youth level so the goals that were set were short term goals, Gordon (2009) agrees that when it comes to novice athletes, the goal should be a short term one, this will not only help the athlete with attaining a particular skill but also confidence from gaining that same …show more content…
In the review of literature (Nakamura et al. , 2012) it states that doing plyometric for the period of 8 weeks improved the sprint time when it comes to 0 to 10m sprinting. This proves that doing plyometric will indeed help football players with their explosiveness since the times of 10m decrease by doing this kind of training. The coach also explained how to do the plyometric exercise mechanically,
While they were doing speed and agility drills the coach Charlie Legg, asked the athletes to pay attention to what he was going to do and he exemplified what needed to be done for that drill, he was going through the mechanics of running and what you need to do when you are in certain parts of the drills, this allows for a better performance and also technique can only improve by doing this, according to Gamble (2013) the time that the foot has to be touching the floor need to be minimal, this will then be referred interval in which the athlete has the chance to push