{"id":13193,"date":"2015-09-03T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=13193"},"modified":"2015-09-03T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T08:00:28","slug":"parkinsons-law-definitely-applies-to-practice-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/03\/parkinsons-law-definitely-applies-to-practice-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkinson&#8217;s Law definitely applies to practice planning!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once, as I developed the training plans for the Svedala team, I recalled <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parkinson's_law\">Parkinson&#8217;s Law<\/a>.&nbsp;It goes something like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve written before about <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/giving-volleyball-practice-planning-the-right-amount-of-time\/\">the amount of time you should allocate to practice planning<\/a>.&nbsp;Part of that discussion was how easily the task could consume crazy amounts of time if not properly constrained. I experienced that while coaching at Exeter. I could find find myself spending all afternoon making up that evenings practice plan. Then, I had to remind myself of that a couple of times the first week of training in Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was so tempting for me as I got started with a new team in a new environment to let the practice planning suck me in and not let me go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may be thinking, &#8220;But you were a professional volleyball coach. That was your job!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s true, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I should let one task eat of a major part of my day. Efficiency in planning is just as important as developing an efficient training plan. There are a lot of other things for a coach to do. Watching video comes immediately to mind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parkinson&#8217;s Law says work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. That definitely applies to planning a volleyball practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[331,435],"class_list":["post-13193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-practice-planning","tag-volleyball-training-plan","tag-volleyball-practice-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}