The starting situation in daily training
You face the same challenge in daily training every week: You have to design suitable sessions, set specific priorities, and clearly communicate the content to your coaching staff. So far, your sketches are in notebooks, folders on your computer, or scattered across various chat groups. When you look for a specific drill format for the main part, you often spend far too much time searching through old documents. Furthermore, sharing your own exercises with your assistant coaches is cumbersome and frustrating. Precise coaching points or details about equipment are frequently missing, so your colleagues do not immediately see what matters in practice. Communication within the team also suffers when plans need short-term adjustments. When players drop out or available pitch space changes, you usually start drawing from scratch again. This manual effort takes away the energy you actually need for the individual development of your squad and direct work on the pitch.
What matters in ambitious soccer
In your ambitious environment, you need a flexible solution that adapts to your training system and makes no rigid demands. You are looking for a central library where you access a professional pool of ready-made content as well as record your own ideas. With Coach OS, you link your exercise collection directly to structured periodization. You select suitable game formats, add instructions for your coaching, and share the graphic seamlessly with the coaching staff. With the integrated drawing tool Sketch, you create animations in 2D and 3D to make procedures visually clear. At the same time, you keep workload management in view, access the athletic profile of your players, and even manage your shadow squad for future seasons in scouting. Absolute sovereignty over your data and clear rights for assistant coaches are important to you. You want to plan agilest, shift priorities at any time, and favorite your own content. This is how you connect your personal touch as a coach with a modern digital structure.
Typical problems and how Coach OS solves them
The effort for manually creating weekly plans and searching for suitable exercises costs too much time.
You spend hours looking for suitable exercises and typing plans. Coach OS takes this effort off your hands. Via automatic season periodization, the software generates finished sessions that match your available pitch space, time, and equipment exactly. You receive suggestions for warm-up, main part, and cool-down. You can adapt, swap, or replace every drill format with your own creations with a few clicks. This saves you valuable hours during preparation and allows you to maintain your own style.
Creating and distributing your own drill formats to assistant coaches is cumbersome.
When you want to draw your own ideas and share them with the team, you often encounter complicated graphics programs. The integrated drawing tool Sketch solves this problem directly. You draw and animate your exercises in 2D as well as 3D and add precise coaching points. Multiple coaches can work on a drawing simultaneously. As soon as you release a drill format, it is available to your assistant coaches in the shared dashboard or via PDF export. This simplifies communication before the session significantly.
Uncertainty about load limits and the maturity status of players leads to mismanagement.
When selecting exercises, you must consider the current load on your squad. Coach OS offers you a dedicated health module for this. Via the metric ACWR, you track the ratio of acute to chronic workload and detect overload early. Additionally, the system categorizes the maturity status of your players and accompanies the return after injuries via a five-stage Return to Play. This way, you select exactly the game formats that adequately challenge your players without endangering their health.
What you should consider when choosing software
When choosing your software, pay attention to three key criteria to noticeably ease your daily routine: First: Session and training planning. Your tools must not force you into rigid templates. Pure exercise generators fall short if they ignore your philosophy. Coach OS contains over 1,244 scientifically developed sessions and simultaneously gives you complete freedom to adapt exercises, integrate your own drill formats, or design the main part completely freely. Second: Communication and coaching collaboration. The best system is useless if your assistant coaches do not get on board. While some programs only deliver confusing exports, multiple coaches work on drawings simultaneously in Sketch. You assign clear access rights and protect your content, while the entire team has access to shared plans. Third: Attendance and availability tracking. An exercise archive is of little use if you do not know who can train on the pitch. Integrated feedback links your preparation directly with the squad. Pay attention to where the system has limits: Coach OS deliberately dispenses with membership fee management, video analysis, or measurement hardware in order to focus fully on your training management and documentation.
Common concerns from coaches
Many coaches fear that software will take control of their training content and deprive them of their creative freedom. This concern is unfounded. Coach OS makes intelligent suggestions based on your parameters for pitch space, time, and squad, but you make every decision yourself. You can swap suggested exercises at any time, set your own priorities, or compile sessions manually from scratch. Another concern involves data protection for sensitive health data. Here, the system guarantees you secure access rights and complete access logs so that all information remains protected. You maintain your methodical freedom and use technology as a tool, not a rule.
FAQ: Manage Exercise Database & Drill Formats | Coach OS
Can I save and manage my own drills in Coach OS?
Yes, you can create your own drills at any time, describe them in detail, and save them as favorites in your library. The integrated drawing tool Sketch also allows you to create animated 2D and 3D diagrams with precise coaching points. This way, you keep your personal touch and always have your proven exercises ready for the training pitch.
Does the drill database offer ready-made content for my age group and skill level?
The drill database contains over 1,244 scientifically designed and animated drills that you can filter specifically by age group, number of players, equipment, and difficulty level. Every drill can be flexibly adapted to the individual skill level of your squad. If, for example, you are looking for a passing game for the main session, you will quickly find suitable variations for your current group size.
How do assistant coaches collaborate using the drill database?
Assistant coaches are invited via link or email and gain access to all shared drills and planned sessions. Using the drawing tool Sketch, multiple coaches can draw drills simultaneously and visually coordinate sequences. A clear permissions system ensures you retain control over which drafts are visible to the entire coaching staff.
Do I retain full control over my training content?
Yes, you retain full control over all content and decisions in your session planning at all times. Although Coach OS suggests suitable sessions based on your criteria, you can swap suggested drills as you see fit, adjust intensities, or create sessions manually from scratch. Your personal coaching philosophy and methodological freedom on the pitch are always preserved.
Yes, you can create your own exercises at any time, describe them in detail, and save them as favorites in your library. With the drawing tool Sketch, you also create animated sketches in 2D and 3D, place coaching points, and share this content directly with your assistant coaches in the team.
Coach OS contains over 1,244 designed and animated exercises developed together with sports scientists and academies. You filter the database by category, age, number of players, equipment, and difficulty. Every drill format can be flexibly adapted to group size and the performance level of your squad.
You invite your assistant coaches to your team via link or email. They join your squad via a separate registration process. They access your shared exercises, see planned sessions, and can draw new drill formats together with you in Sketch.
Your freedom of decision has absolute priority. Coach OS suggests suitable sessions based on your periodization, but you always decide yourself. You can swap suggested exercises, adjust intensities, modify the main part as desired, or design sessions completely independently from scratch.
Frequently asked questions about digital creation of exercises
How do I quickly convert existing paper sketches into digital format?
Do not transfer your drawings painstakingly by hand, but use automated recognition instead. You take photos of pages from your notebook or textbook and have the image content analyzed directly. Artificial intelligence converts your template into an editable graphic and suggests suitable titles, procedures, and coaching points. With drawing tools like Sketch, you create clean sessions within a few minutes.
In which formats can I share drawn exercises with my team?
Export your graphics flexibly for various uses within the coaching staff. You save your lineups and procedures as a PNG image, create classic PDF exercise sheets, or export short videos of the animation. For presentations, you convert your two-dimensional top view into a three-dimensional TV View with one click. You can even access an interactive representation via a QR-Code as Augmented Reality directly.
How do I protect my own drafts while collaborating with other coaches?
Work together with your colleagues on drill formats without unintentionally sharing intermediate statuses. Although several coaches draw on the same exercise simultaneously, your own drawings remain isolated with you. Only when you explicitly set your drawing to public will your colleagues or the entire coaching staff see the finished result. You maintain control over your drafts.