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Paul, can you summarize how it’s set up? Link below does not work for me (I found it in an old thread).
Eric, for reference, did your original 7v3 a rondo have 5 perimeter players + 2 midfielders vs 3 defenders? I’m trying to understand your progression.
With U11 boys I did a simple “juggles or pushups” home workout assignment that worked very well (I picked it up from a friend of mine at a different club)
Idea was simple:
– At each practice players had to do X “juggles + pushups”. If the weekly goal is 20 consecutive juggles, then a player that maxed at 16 did 4 push-ups to complete the set.
– We started out at 12 and increased by 3 every week. I froze the goal for the week whenever our top juggler couldn’t reach it. I would change these parameters based on the level of the team.
– It was all done on an honor system before each practice started. Players would juggle on their own, then tell me their daily max and do their push-ups.
– It sound fairly simple, but it motivated the boys to work on the juggling at home and the entire team got better very quickly.
– I repeated this the following season, but this time I stipulated that you could only alternate right/left (as you know some of the kids will rely on one foot to juggle). Once again, it worked great.
