A training camp does not end with the return journey. Only through structured follow-up can sporting, organizational and team-related insights be used in the long term.
This guide shows why the follow-up to a training camp is important, which steps are involved and how clubs can get the maximum benefit from the training camp - based on SOCCATOURS' practical experience from numerous organized football training camps.
The follow-up of a training camp includes the evaluation of sporting content, organizational processes and team developments after the return. The aim is to reflect on experiences and use findings for the rest of the season.
A structured follow-up helps to make successes visible and identify optimization potential at an early stage.
Follow-up ensures that the time and organizational effort invested in the training camp has a lasting effect.
Practical experience shows that without conscious follow-up, many positive effects of a training camp are quickly lost in everyday training. Targeted reflection helps coaches and teams to consolidate and further develop content.
After the training camp, training content, load management and individual developments should be evaluated in particular.
Typical sporting aspects of the follow-up:
This evaluation forms the basis for the next training phases.
Feedback from players, the coaching team and support staff is a central component of training camp follow-up.
Feedback helps with this:
In practice, short feedback rounds or structured discussions are often enough to gain valuable insights.
In addition to the sporting content, organizational processes should also be reviewed.
Typical organizational aspects:
These points provide important information for future training camps.
Findings from the training camp should be documented and specifically integrated into everyday training.
Examples
In this way, the training camp becomes part of a long-term development process.
Common mistakes include a lack of evaluation, returning to everyday life too quickly and failing to provide feedback.
Typical mistakes from practice:
Many of these mistakes can be avoided with simple, structured follow-up.
Follow-up is usually the responsibility of the coaching team, often in coordination with coaches or club managers.
The more clearly responsibilities are defined, the more effectively the content and experiences from the training camp can be processed.
SOCCATOURS is also available to clubs after the training camp as a contact partner in order to classify experiences and use findings for future measures. The aim is to understand training camps not as a single event, but as part of sustainable development.
➡️ This closes the circle of planning, goal definition, selection, budget, preparation and follow-up
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