If you have one training per week and play one competition game per week do your players have personal goals to achieve away from training?

Sometimes it can be difficult to coach a team when some of your players are involved in other netball teams eg. Rep and state league.  Some players are experiencing overload with trainings from various teams and other players might only be receiving one training session per week.

Monitoring what all your players are doing is an important process in your netball training strategy.  Researching information player by player can give you more insight into how to motivate your team as a unit.

If you hold a team meeting and go through the group asking each player their weekly commitment this can be instrumental in gathering information for you and also educating the other players of their individual workloads.  It can be quite a shock when you hear what some players are doing, not only with netball but with all their other activities especially if they are still at school.

Another area that sometimes will need to be addressed is your players that are also coached in other teams having conflicting coaching techniques to adhere to.

This can confuse players and they will need to be supported so the various techniques do not impose on their progression, rather enable them to add more skills to their game.

So once you have researched your team’s weekly workloads you can then put together a fitness/strength and conditioning program for them to do in their own time.  You will also need to provide your shooters with a shooting program to ensure they are practicing their goals and you will need to continue monitoring their programs.  Shooting stats taken each game will help you to measure their progress with their accuracy.

Players may wish to work in pairs in their personal time and this can be of benefit to those who find it hard to motivate themselves to do fitness on their own.

Fitness plays a very important role in netball.  The fitter your players, the more likely they can think clearly rather than showing signs of fatigue.  If you have definite roles for each player, strategies in your attack and defence, players having the ability to read a game, displaying confidence on court then look at the fitness levels and give your team the edge.

When they walk out on court they should be confident in themselves and each other that they have worked hard all week to prepare for match play.

If you are a current subscriber, Energy Netball already provides Netball Coaching Drills and Skill Development Sessions for Shooting Programs, Shooting Stat Sheets and Buddy Systems (training in pairs).