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A detailed and accurate action plan should contain:

1. Clear identification of the specific skill/component of fitness being improved with full justification based on an analysis of performance (see Evaluating and analysing fitness and Evaluating and analysing skills).
2. The principles of training and how they will be applied (see Principles of training).
3. SMART goal setting and how this will be applied (see Goal setting).
4. A range of detailed drills and practices with coaching points.
5. A discussion of the element chosen to improve, to demonstrate understanding.

Action plans may also include warm up and cool down, safety considerations, guidance and feedback techniques and methods of monitoring progress.

Practices

Drills and practices need to be specific for the skill or fitness they are improving. They should also be progressive, getting gradually more difficult as the performer gets better. Most practices have a basic level, an intermediate level and an advanced level. For example, a passing practice could have, at a basic level, two static players passing to each other over 10 m; at an intermediate level, the players move in a 20 m × 20 m area while passing; at an advanced level, a defender is introduced to put pressure on the passer. Performers only move to the next level when they are proficient at the previous level.