ORGANIZATIONAL
SCHEDULE (Off-Season, Pre-Season, In-Season, Post-Season)
The 12-Month Football Training Program
A football training program
lasts 12 months - even if the competitive in-season only spans from September
to December. Here are the three phases or periods of a football training
program...
·
Pre-season phase - 7 months
·
In-season phase - 4 months
·
Transition phase - 1-2 months
Pre-Season Phase of Football Training
The pre-season or off-season is
by far the largest phase of the annual plan.
The goal is to develop optimum
strength and power so that it peaks just prior to the start of the in-season.
Strength & Power
conditioning
Speed & Agility
Training
Flexibility Training
In-Season Phase of Football Training
The objective is to maintain all
the gains resulting from your hard work over the previous 6 months or so.
Competitive games take priority.
All of your conditioning work should be based around when you play. It's
important to either rest or perform lower intensity drills the day before a
game.
You'll also have to co-ordinate your strength sessions so that you
recover fully in time.
Transition Phase of Football Training
The transition phase is as
important as any other in the 12 month football training program. It
may only last 4-6 weeks but what you choose to do over that period of time can
dictate how your entire season plays out.
If you don't take the time to
rest - physically AND mentally - you WILL burnout... eventually. The only
caveat is that you do something physically active...
If you do absolutely nothing it
will be that much harder to return to training. It takes only 4-5 weeks of
complete sedentary living to loose most of what's taken you the best part of
year to build up.
