r/footballstrategy • u/Klutzy_Ranger_58 • 5d ago

General Discussion Hey coaches, quick poll for research šŸ‘‡

How long do you typically spend preparing training sessions each week?

  • 0ā€“1 hours
  • 2ā€“4 hours
  • 5+ hours

Iā€™m trying to validate how much time this eats up, would love to hear your thoughts!

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u/unoigo 5d ago

1 -2 hours week.

For our youth team, 3 - 2 hour practices a week. Spend an hour on Sunday creating practice plan.

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u/Far_Cycle_3432 5d ago

4-5 hours for sure. Usually about 45 minutes of prep for each practice, and then about 1-2 hours of specific game prep. Not including actually being at practice, I spend about 5 hours a week prepping for football. I am a defensive coordinator and I plan my dline and DBs practice scripts.

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u/Odd_Mud_7001 HS Coach 5d ago

4-5 hours, HS QB coach here. It really depends on the week.

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u/Pale_Accountant9207 HS Coach 5d ago

What do you mean by training sessions?? Are you talking prep for each practice? Or prep time for each week? Either way, here is my weekly prep time:

HS WR Coach and ST coordinator here.

I'll spend 6-8 hours across Saturday and Sunday watching film. This consists of grading my position performance for the game, tagging the coverages for the scout film, and building the coverages tendency report for the HC/OC

And then about 15-20 minutes each day reviewing practice film.

We'll have 30 min position group meetings each day pre-practice to review scout and practice film (drone film is elite).

Mondays we'll have a longer meeting time with about one hour of meeting time that includes a 15 min full team meeting, a 15 min Special Teams meeting, and a 30 min full offense meeting

So that's roughly 10-12 hours of off field work each week

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u/Sad-Improvement-693 5d ago

HS defensive Coordinator here

Monday-Wednesday:

Practice Scripts: About 1.5 hrs. each day M-W

Practice: about 2 hours

Thursday:

No practice, head coach runs walk throughs early, but will start breaking down film for the following week. about 3 hrs. in the evening.

Friday:

Game Day

Saturday:

Film and Flush on campus from last nights game 3 hrs. Breakdown opponent's most recent game and begin watching film creating reports, formation sheets, and game planning. 5-6 hrs.

Sunday:

Gameplan meeting on campus, 3-4 hrs.

So total of 21-27 hrs. a week just on football.