PES6252 Chap.11 Season Planning, Team Development and Managing the Sport
Season Planning, Team Development and Managing the Sport
Three applied rows, and one learning outcome
Three rows of the published course content sit outside the observation block. Season planning and application names periodisation, peak performance and a multi dimensional approach. Management of team sports and individual sports stands alone. Team development names cohesion and group dynamics.
One learning outcome turns all three into a deliverable: develop and evaluate a cycle of a six week training plan for a specific sport.
This chapter is about writing that plan, and about the second verb in the outcome, which is the one students skip.
What each named idea adds
Periodisation says a training year divides into phases with different purposes, so the question stops being how much training and becomes what kind, when.
Peak performance says the target is readiness on a named date, which introduces the taper and makes the fortnight before an event structurally different from every other fortnight. The multi dimensional approach says preparation has technical, tactical, physical and psychological strands, and that a plan listing only drills has silently assumed the other three will follow. Two cautions apply before you write one.
These are frameworks rather than formulas, so a plan claiming a precision the source does not supply has invented it. And the sport has to be specific, because strand balance, injury risk and the shape of the competitive calendar are all sport properties.
What this chapter covers
- 01
Three applied course content rows, and the outcome that gathers them
- 02
Periodisation as phases with different purposes
- 03
Peak performance, and why the taper is structural rather than optional
- 04
The multi dimensional approach: four strands planned separately
- 05
Sampling against specialisation as the same decision at a longer timescale
- 06
Task and social cohesion as two independent quantities
Build a six week cycle and source every decision
- 3Set the shape of the six weeks, and name the framework.
- 3Decide what goes in the sessions, and handle the overlap.
- 3Handle the squad structure, naming the cohesion each move acts on.
- 3Add the management decision and say when it must be made.
Key terms
- Peak Performance
- The planning principle that readiness on a named competition date is the objective, which is what introduces a deliberate reduction in load before the event.
- Taper
- The planned reduction in training load across the final weeks of a cycle, so that accumulated fatigue is not carried into the target competition.
- Multi Dimensional Approach
- Planning technical, tactical, physical and psychological preparation as separate strands rather than assuming three of them follow from the first.
- Sports Sampling
- Spreading a young athlete participation across several sports before narrowing later, set against early specialisation in one.
Season Planning, Team Development and Managing the Sport FAQ
What does evaluating a six week plan actually involve?
Writing down before the cycle starts what would show it worked, with more than one measure. A performance measure on the target date is the obvious one and the least informative, because one result on one day is compatible with almost any plan. A process measure asks whether the sessions delivered the planned strand balance, which tests whether the plan was followed rather than whether it was right.
And a participation measure, such as who was still attending in week twelve, is the one the earlier chapters argue you cannot leave out.
Why does a league season break textbook periodisation?
Because a team sport coach receives a fixture list rather than choosing a date. An individual sport coach can build a cycle toward one target and move nearly everything else around it; a team coach has to periodise inside a calendar written by someone else, which usually means several smaller peaks rather than one.
That is the practical reason a single smooth curve rarely survives a season, and saying so is better than presenting a curve that the fixture list makes impossible.
Assessment move
Write the six week cycle for a sport you actually coach or play, on one page, with a framework named beside every line and an evaluation section at the bottom containing one measure that is not a result. That page is the learning outcome, and having written it once means the equivalent question in any assessment is a matter of adapting rather than inventing.
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