Coaching Football Fitness
GSM International through the Jamaica Football Coaches Association will be conducting a nation wide coaching course called Coaching Football Fitness High School age and Senior Team Coaches.

Candidates who wish to take the course on September 4-6 should contact the below JFCA staff or email jamaicafca@gmail.com.

770-7567 Evan McKenzie or Baris Johnson 329-1641 or Vin Blaine 427-1134 or Curven Whyte 579-6607 or Eric Williams 354-0560

The course is conducted by GSM International and will have several coaches’ instructing the course. They are Paul Banta-Coaching Educator and Founder of GSM, Paul Shaw - Director of Coaching Education for Virginia, Geoff Maxwell - Technical Director of WFC, Baris Johnson - Director of GSM Jamaica and Assistant Coach WFC and guest appearance by Tappa Whitmore.

The course outline is as follows:

GSM International Coaching Education Program and the Jamaican Football Coaches Association

Presents

Coaching Football Fitness

(A Fitness Course for High Level Youth and Senior Coaches)

Course Partnership:

• The Jamaican Football Coaches Association
• Global Soccer Ministries Jamaica Ltd.

Course Date and Schedule:

• Starts 6:00 PM September 4th and operates September 5th & 6th of 25 hours of class and field work. Ends 9 PM September 6th.

Coaching Football Fitness Presentations are through:

• Field Sessions – Daily AM and PM
• Lecture Sessions – Evening Classroom
• Open Discussion During All Sessions

Course Certification:

• Certificate GSM International Coaching Football Fitness

6:00 PM Welcome and Presentations

• Welcome by JFCA and What We Are About
• Paul Banta - International Coaching Educator and President of GSM International
• Paul Shaw - Coaching Education Director - Virginia Youth Soccer Association
• Geoffrey Maxwell – Technical Director of Waterhouse FC
• Baris Johnson – Director of Coaching GSM Jamaica Ltd.
• Theodore Whitmore – National Team Coach Jamaica

DAY ONE

6:30 - 9:30 PM – About GSM & Coaching Football Fitness

6:30 PM - Welcome to GSM Coaching Education – Paul Banta and Baris Johnson

• Coaching Education by GSM International
• About GSM International in Jamaica and Internationally
• What is Coaching Football Fitness about in Jamaica?
• What is Player Development through ‘Coaching Football Fitness’?
• What is the Course Contents and Expectation?

7:30 PM - Components of Coaching Football Fitness – Lectures by Paul Shaw and Paul Banta and Open Discussion

• Pre-season Football Fitness – Paul Shaw
• Football Fitness During Your Season and Post Season League Play – Paul Shaw
• Warm-up as related to Football Fitness – Paul Banta
• Football Fitness for your players positions as they attack and defense in matches – Paul Banta
• Endurance (aerobic) and Muscle (anaerobic) fitness through the demands of small sided functional games – Paul Shaw
• Combining Techniques, Tactics and Football Fitness into Your Training Exercises – Paul Shaw
• Fitness for Goalkeepers – Paul Banta
• Football Fitness, Fun and Player Motivation – Paul Banta
• The Match that Develop Your Player’s Football Fitness – Paul Banta

9:00 PM – Open Discussion from Coaches about Coaching Football Fitness

DAY TWO


8 AM – 10 AM - Field Work – Paul Banta

The Match Develops Your Player’s Football Fitness?

• The match for football fitness
• How should we use the match to create each player’s football fitness?
• Why should we focus on the match for football fitness?

Fitness for Players in Attack and Defense

• Team and Individual Fitness in Attacking from a K-4-4-2
• Team and Individual Fitness in Defending from a K-4-4-2
• Football Fitness for Forwards, Wingers, and Backs
• Level of Anaerobic and Aerobic Football Fitness
• Interval training for players positions in attack and defense

10:15 AM – 12:30 PM – Field Work – Paul Shaw

Anaerobic and Aerobic Football Fitness through the Demands of Small Sided Games with Emphasis on Functional and Match Relate Training

• Designing training sessions for anaerobic football fitness for your players
• Designing training sessions for aerobic football fitness for your players
• Training playing groups together through small side games

Example: Forward, winger and central midfielders in the final attacking zone in a combination of anaerobic and aerobic to score goals from wing play

• Anaerobic and aerobic in team defense
• Progressive small sided functional game with field size and playing time controls

Techniques, Tactics and Football Fitness

• Football functional or match related exercise that create the development of technique, tactics and football fitness (either anaerobic or aerobic or a combination of anaerobic and aerobic) all being inter related and coached in one exercise

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM – Field Work – Paul Banta

Fitness for Goalkeepers

• Pressure functional training for quickness in attacking situations
• Pressure functional training for quickness in defending situations
• Fast feet workouts
• Upper body and abdominal goalkeeper fitness exercises

3:30 PM-5:30 PM – Field Work

Football Fitness During Your Season and Post Season Play offs

• Maintaining Match Fitness throughout your season
• Getting ready for post season matches

6:30 PM to 7:30 PM – Lecture by Paul Shaw

Football Testing of Players, Their Recovery and Regeneration (Developing a Seasonal Plan)

• In order to come up with a plan for match fitness, we need to establish a starting point. How does our football fitness plan impact what will happen on the field in training for matches?
• What are football fitness testing tools for the coach and how to evaluate them?
• How do we come up with a plan for the season?

7:30 PM to 9:00 PM – Lecture by

Football Fitness, Fun and Player Motivation

• Do your player at your fitness methods?
• Are you fitness training exercises about football or some other sport like Athletics?
• Do your players look forward to football fitness with the understanding that football fitness is about playing the game?
• Can your player have a good laugh in your football fitness exercise or do you cause your payers grief
• Quick feet are vital

9:00 PM – Open Discussion on the day

DAY THREE

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

Warm-up as related to Football Fitness – Paul Banta

• Warming up before Practice
• Warming up progressively to meet the heavy demands of practice
• Post practice stretch as a team
• Post practice stretching as an individual player two after your practice

Football Warm-ups through Small Sided Games

• Passive Play
• No Tackling
• Specific task for players to achieve
• Games Functional and Match Related in Nature

10:15 AM – 12:30 PM – Field Session – Paul Banta

More Fitness for Goalkeepers
• Attacking exercise
• Defending exercises
• Quick feet and hands

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Creating and Scoring Goals in Football Fitness Functional Games and Exercises

• Forward
• Wingers
• Midfielders

3:30 PM – 5:30 PM - Field Work

Backs and Keepers in Football Fitness Functional Games and Exercises

• Central Defending
• Flank defenders
• Goalkeepers

Training Players in Small Side Games to Receive Football Fitness

• Small sided functional games for football fitness training
• Small sided match related games for football fitness training

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM – Lecture/Discussion Classroom Session

6:30 PM- & 7:30 PM

Football Nutrient – Paul Shaw

• Before Training Sessions and Matches
• After Training Sessions and Matches
• During the week

6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Coaching from a Leadership Role with Integrity – Paul Banta

• You are to be a Person of Influence to Develop Players
• The Importance of Moral/Christian Leadership Roles in the Game
• What’s Leadership?
• Why Be a Leader?
• How to Lead?
• When Do I Lead?

9:00 PM –Closing Remarks/Certification Awards

• Coaches
• GSM Staff
• Guests