Some helpful hints in utilizing the Yearly Training Plan
Blank Yearly Training Plan, Blank Season Goals Sheet
  1. Set your competition dates
    • Months at the top starting in your General Preparation Phase (when you first have the athletes)
    • How many practices per week?
    • How many games per week once your season starts?
    • When are your main competitions (club playdowns, districts, provincials, westerns, nationals), put them in the tournaments section
      • Add any tournaments that you have scheduled or as you get the dates
  2. Set your Training periods and phases (see NCCP reference manual pages 59-60 for more detail)
    1. Preparation Period
      • The time from when you have your athletes to when competition begins
      • The time when the bulk of the acquisition takes place
      • When mental training is introduced
      • When physical training takes place
      • Includes the following phases:
        1. General Preparation Phase
        2. Specific Preparation Phase
        3. Pre-Competition Phase
    2. Competition Period
      • The time from when your competition begins to when it ends
      • The time when development, consolidation and refinement occurs
      • Includes the following phases:
        1. Regular Competition Phase
        2. Main Competition Phase (when maintenance of refined skills occurs)
    3. Transition Period
      • After competition for the season ends
      • When rest and recovery takes place
      • When other sports are engaged in
  3. On blank piece of paper, write down the goals that you would like your team to accomplish by the end of the
    • Separate the goals by Physical, Mental, Technical and Tactical goals
    • Establish check points during the season where you will re-visit the goals and evaluate your progress
  4. Using your goal sheet, enter the specific components that you will be working on in the Technical, Tactical, Mental and Physical sections on your yearly training plan
  5. Now it's time to get down to work
    • Go through each component entered and either enter or highlight the areas where you will do the following for each component
      1. A for Acquisition
      2. D for Development
      3. C for Consolidation or Maintenance or bringing the Acquisition and development together
      4. R for Refinement
    • Note: When you get to the Refinement phase, you may find that you will be evaluating and refining until the main competition phase
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