Get changed for training

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Getting changed is not really about clothes, it is the switch between being at home and being at training. The steps below make that switch visible, from socks and boots to the bag standing ready by the door.

A woman strides forward with a folder labelled Training under her arm and an open book in her hand.

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On the way to training

A woman strides forward with a folder labelled Training under her arm and an open book in her hand.

About this visual support

Between the sofa and the warm up sits a change of clothes, and that is where plenty of sessions lose twenty minutes. The body has to shift out of everyday mode and into activity, the head has to do the same, and getting changed is the only concrete boundary between the two. When it drags, the child arrives late and stressed at something that was meant to be fun.

Visual support fits this well because training kit almost always has a fixed order: base layer before shorts, socks before shin pads, boots last. With the order held in pictures it stops being a question of what goes on and becomes simply the next card. The tip that makes the biggest difference is to lay the kit out in the same order as the pictures, in one pile on the floor. The sequence and the pile then match, and the child can work from the bottom up without hunting for anything.

If you want the change to have its own slot before you leave, build the whole preparation in Routined with pictures and a timer, and try it for fourteen days at no cost.