Practicing on Your Own: The Manual

V. Designing your routine
With a clear short-term goal and a set of appropriate drills in mind, you can now lay out your training plan on a specific timeline. Ideally, you should set the deadline for reaching your goal between 7-21 days. Typically, your training routine should gradually advance from execution-specific to application-specific drills. This means that in the early stages of your training, you should stricly work on repetition, observation, fitness and developing the physical requirements for executing the skill. After you've developed the basics, you should advance to applying the skill in real-game situations, to eventually incorporating it in competative events.

Goal : Learning to pass and distribute the ball under pressure
Days 1-3
	Basic mechanics of passing using the push pass, instep and the inside curve. To be practiced against the wall
Days 4-7
	Trying to hit a specific mark on the wall and learning to pass without a preparation touch
Days 8-11
	Learning to control and pass the ball while running at full speed
Days 12-15
	Learning to control and pass at full speed while remaining within a confined area

Acheieving successful results from your training is primarily determined by how strictly you follow your routine. A mediocre, but rigourously followed routine will yield better results compared to a superbly designed plan which you barely adhere to.

Individual training is in no way a replacement to playing matches at a competative level. It is a suppliment that emphasizes on improving specific areas of your performance.