 Hey, what's up guys? It's coach Ben from soccer entrepreneur in today's video I'm gonna be addressing a question that I've been getting From a lot of trainers and I'm surprised I haven't made a video about this yet But the question that I've been getting is how long should my sessions be and How should I structure and put together a program? So I'm gonna give you my example of how I used to do it and how I do it now And I'm also gonna show you examples of how other people do it and really before I get started talking everything comes down to to you and how you want to train players and whatever you find that's most effective because Everyone out there is different some people like having really long sessions some people don't and I'm gonna show you how I do it, which I feel like is a very efficient way And when I first started the way I did my sessions were not efficient at all and I'll kind of dig into that So I'm gonna kind of address the question now And I want you to ask yourself a couple questions though and if you're training players privately or in groups I Look at it very differently if you're training or just one-on-one session, you're just working with one player So depending on the age of that player you have to figure out what is the mental capacity That player that you're training are they going to be able to be with you for longer than an hour? if so, you know, how long do you want to train and I never ever tell anyone that they have to base their price on How long they're training players because when you do that Everyone's gonna look at you as you know by the hour or how much do you train or charge per session? And I don't like that concept at all because then it puts you inside of a box that you can't get out of And people won't value your time as much when you do it that way Then if you do it the way that I'm about to show you so when you think about yourself How long do you want to train and you have to make that decision first? Do you want to train 90 minutes? Do you want to train an hour? Do you want to train 45 minutes? Do you want to do 30-minute sessions? I know a lot of people out there that do 30-minute group sessions And this is something that I know you can pull off in your academy if you have the right type of programs set up so Let's kind of think forward now. What? Do you want to do so with your program? Do you want to provide skills training? You know finishing training. I have to figure out, you know Where you're at with what type of program you want to offer and there's a million programs that you could offer You could just offer Foot skills programs you could just do conditioning programs. I mean it really doesn't matter What the program is but the program has to be good and has to benefit the players and Then you can start to figure out how long each session should be so the way I like to do it Is very opposite how I did it when I first started when I started I did 90-minute sessions And if you think about the the amount of time during the day when you can train players Especially during the school year the longer the session you have the less players you can train Because even if you have a lighted facility, you're not going to be able to train as many players so for example if I started my training after school at four o'clock if I Have three kids. I'm training privately and they're all 90-minute sessions I'm going to be working an hour and a half an hour and a half and an hour and a half And so that's going to total four and a half hours of training when I could you know work the same amount of training and Try to work with Four or four players and then maybe an extra 30 minute session So that's what comes down to how effective you are with your time But if you want to do hour and a half sessions, that's what I did at the beginning that worked Very well for me, but I realized that we could start to shorten the amount of our sessions and Have more intense sessions and that's the thing that I realized that club soccer kind of struggles with is they have an hour and a half or two hour sessions But if you sit there and you watch a club session, even some of the top clubs You'll see this that the entire time players aren't moving. They're not with the ball There's a lot of dead time. There's a lot of time where they're getting water. They're warm up is 15 20 minutes And I think that a lot of those sessions The the time could be way more efficient. It could be maximized much better And when you're training players privately, this is something you have to really think about because you could take on a lot more players if Your sessions are shorter and your sessions could be a much more effective. You can get better results if they're shorter Where there's more going on within the session rather than giving longer breaks having a super long warm-up I mean, I could think of a lot of things that waste time throughout the session That you could you know, just minimize a lot of that and have a shorter session This way the player actually gets better results and that's what I found once I started to test Different time amounts, especially with different types of players. I realized that The sweet spot for me was having sessions for 50 minutes So five zero fifty minutes and the reason why I did that is because I want to start all my sessions on the hour and end All my sessions on the hour and this gives me a 10-minute cushion To child with the player or the parents after the session so I can address any questions that they have I don't feel like I'm rushed because 10 minutes is a long time to to child with parents about any anything that comes up And that's not going to cut into my next session and knowing that that also gives me a couple minutes to prepare And move around cones or do whatever I need to to get ready for the next session That's that very next hour. This way you can look at every single hour that you train as a session And we've tested things with clinics and I'm not going to talk too much about clinics right now But we've done things where they're an hour clinic or two hour clinics or 90 minute clinics And I'm a big believer that if players can get the same result faster Then you need to do that because if you're having a longer drawn-out session That's not in my opinion. That's not really going to be the thing that's going to be that helpful for the players They're already kind of experiencing that with whatever team they play. They're having longer sessions And I would rather train someone and have them in a shorter session and get better results to maximize the time This way they feel like they're getting Pretty much a non-stop workout for 50 minutes And that's how we like to structure things everyone's different though But I want you to start to think about that Coming up with your academy with how you want to structure your time because if you look at everything at the end of the Day time is the most important asset that you're going to have with your business And if you don't have enough time to take on more players Then you probably need to restructure the way that you think about how long your sessions are So that's it for today guys if you enjoyed the video click the thumbs up button Let me know if you have any questions. 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