How To MAKE Time For Your Cool Down

Did you spare enough time to cool-down?

Time management is one of the most important aspects of executing a coaching plan. This is even more true in a school setting where sometimes you only have 45 minutes with the students. Before you know it a huge chunk of the class has gone due to reasons you most likely do not have control over. But what you can control is your timings in moving on each activity. There are little tweaks you can make to make this happen:

A) Make progressions constant throughout the session. So all activities from your warm-up to the skill, game and the final match is progressing in practical terms. This could help it flow much quicker and easier instead of needing to rearrange organisation of cones etc you go straight into a cool-down.

B) Demonstrate and/or produce a handout of a range of cool-down exercises to the participants; which they can go over in their own time and then perform when the session comes.

C) Give them the responsibility of doing their individual cool-down with a certain time-frame. Participants sometimes need to perform different stretches that is suitable to their fitness and state of muscles.

D) Deliver cool-downs which are command based. This only requires space and the projection of your voice.

E) Demonstrate exercises whilst people imitate you at the same time.

5) Gradually bring down the intensity of the last part of your final drill and integrate it with some cool-down movements.

Do you always manage to get a Cool-Down done in your sessions? Do you find it easy?