How to use your development Journal
Your development journal has 4 major components:
- An overview page
- This page is designed to pull together your journey so you can track your progress and allow the coaches to support you more easily
- You cannot edit this page outside of the pre-season target
- Training targets and reflections
- This is where you set your targets for our key training weekends before the event so that you are able to get the most out of the training.
- Advice on this can be found here
- Throwing challenge phase 1
- Throwing challenge phase 2
Why Bother?
This is likely to be the biggest season most of you have played so far and to give you the best opportunity you can to make the most of it then changing your aproach to training and practice is a must.
All of the throwing tasks are short enough to be completed along side a regular training session and provide mental as well as physical challenge. Engaging with the full program will make this seasons training different to last seasons and should enable you to get the most from the cycle.
Setting up your Development Journal
Task 1: Setting your preseason target
Your target should be a weakness of yours that you have identified, something you are hoping to work on between now and the first training
Task 2: Setting your Week 1 throwing target
How to score your throwing sessions:
The Weather
- W – Windy
- R – Raining/Wet
- G -Good Conditions
Scoring your success
- 4 – Most throws completed
- 3 – I had lots of completions but have identified some weaknesses
- 2 -I was able to complete the activities but had low completion rates
- 1 – I struggled to action the challenges
Personal Reflections
- Be specific, what worked and what did not work.
- Did you make any changes that had positive or negative affects?
- Have you had any conversations with team mates or coaches?
Target Setting
- Where do you want to be next session / next week / next training?
- What development are you hoping to see?
- Make your goals measurable, how will you know you have met your target?
- What specific steps are you taking to address the result of last session?
- Can you ask someone else to help or to give you live feedback?
Training targets and reflections
Before Training
- Set yourself a target of what you are hoping to get from the session.
- Is your target measurable? How will you know that you have achieved your target?
- You cannot focus on everything at once, you are better off setting less targets so that you can focus on specific aspects of your development
- Can you work with other members of the squad to push for a joint goal?
- If you would like anything specific from the coaching team during the weekend then please get in touch ahead of time so we can plan ahead, this may include the coaches watching out for something specific during drills or games.
Personal Reflections
- Be specific, what worked and what did not work.
- Did you make any changes that had positive or negative affects?
- Have you had any conversations with team mates or coaches?
- Do you feel like you met the targets you set out for yourself
Target Setting
- Where do you want to be next session / next week / next training?
- What development are you hoping to see?
- Make your goals measurable, how will you know you have met your target?
- What specific steps are you taking to address the result of last session?
- Can you ask someone else to help or to give you live feedback?
- What will you be doing differently to enable a change to take place?