Saturday, December 27, 2014

Are Football Training Videos Really Effective

By Claudine Hodges


Becoming a great athlete does not happen overnight. The process is long and it requires time, effort, determination and dedication. The passion to win is not enough. It has to be coupled with adequate training and practice. This is a challenge every coach gets into. More so if one is trying to build a winning team.

Fortunately, coaches can make use of strategies that worked in the past. They can integrate these with the team's routine. One fine example is the use of football training videos on top of the daily practice sessions. The video may be a recording of practice sessions, a tutorial for players or previous games of the team. The recordings can be used in identifying flaws with the techniques, correcting the errors committed in the past, providing feedback to the players and maximizing the team's overall strength.

The videos can also be an excellent follow up for aspiring athletes even without their coaches around. During the session, coaches push their teams hard to prepare for upcoming games. Yet, it does not mean that you should stop practicing just because the practice session has ended. If you are really serious about winning, you can still practice in your home. The training videos contain a library of football drills that you can practice on your own.

Aside from physical conditioning, each athlete must also be mentally prepared to take on their opponents. Furthermore, one's confidence in his team members, coach and the team's strategy can affect how he plays. If a player believes their team would win, he is more likely to perform better Watching previous games of the opposing team can help the team gain confidence to positively win the upcoming match.

This also allows the coach to strategize a game plan that suits the opposing team's strength and weaknesses as observed in the previous match. Based on how the team played before, the coach can run simulations of plays and scenarios, which may take place in an actual game. Moreover, many training videos feature effective strategies developed by some of the winning coaches in history.

Watching a playback can also expose the team's weaknesses that could have been overlooked in an actual session. Many times, unnoticed faults in the strategy can hold back the team's performance and no one even realizes it. By identifying the flaws, the coach can correct it and enhance the team's game plan.

Self-paced training is another benefit of watching the videos. Some athletes learn easily while the others do not. It is unwise to delay the session, so the others can catch up as it could have adverse effects on the team performance. The coach must continue providing the team with standard routines and will just assign extra drills to players who would need it. This is where the video is most useful.

Finally, the videos can be used on your own schedule. This is a perfect way to spend down time. You do not require any fancy equipment or great outdoors. You can just watch the video with any media player at home. At times, this is also a perfect refresher before resuming a real practice session.

Video analysis is common in modern sports. It is perfect in conditioning a player for an upcoming match, but most of all, it is effective in boosting the entire team's performance. No wonder many coaches are using it.




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