There are plenty of ways to design a field based session especially given the wide variety of different sports and context. This blueprint is just one example and shows various traits being chased, in a certain order.

The type of athlete you train can heavily influence how much time and volume you place on each one. For example, a rugby league winger who struggles with top speed will probably spend more time on max velocity compared to a hooker who struggles with fitness who may spend more time on conditioning.

A strategy I like to follow when designing field sessions across the week is having short days short and long days long (i.e. pairing max velocity with conditioning and acceleration with change of direction work). In theory, shorter days should have different demands, whether it’s fatiguing slightly different muscle groups or just a reduction in overall running volume which should allow better recovery between longer session bouts.

On top of this, I also just like to reinforce similar teaching points when coaching as COD work tends to have more acceleration element involved and conditioning tends to spend more time in upright running seen in max velocity. I prefer to implement the A series session earlier in the week away from competition with the B session being done closer to competition as it tends to take longer to recovery from.