Do you take it week by week, and log your workouts, or is it all planned in advance before the season?
Do you take it week by week, and log your workouts, or is it all planned in advance before the season?
Depends on the particular situation, but in general would take a look at the competition schedule and work backward from the championship(s) to pre-season. The skeleton of the training would be done before pre-season.
The *kinds* of training would be slotted in, but the specifics would be more tentative/placeholders, to be filled in later based on personnel and how they were responding to training.
I plan every single run before the cycle starts, down to the mile.
I then use that training plan as a road map to get through the traffic of life and training. Like with any drive, sometimes you have to make detours as the map really only works best under optimal conditions, and conditions are never optimal.
I’d say that I generally stick to about 80% of the runs that I plan and probably get in 80-90% of the workouts as planned.
I adjust my days off, drop mileage, sometimes add mileage, vary workouts (and workout days) depending on how I feel, etc.
But I like having the plan in place despite all of that because it gives a cohesion to what I’m trying to do, and it lets me put each week in context (“this week is supposed to be about more volume and less intensity, so focus on mileage more than your workout If you don’t feel great” kind of thing).
Let it Rupp wrote:
Do you take it week by week, and log your workouts, or is it all planned in advance before the season?
I coach as the more famous known Canova, one week at a time. It`s a very smart and good way to coach because you know exactly what your runner needs out from last weeks training and race results.
I can really recommend that way of coaching. The Art of coaching the individual runner in the very best way.
lease wrote:
Depends on the particular situation, but in general would take a look at the competition schedule and work backward from the championship(s) to pre-season. The skeleton of the training would be done before pre-season.
The *kinds* of training would be slotted in, but the specifics would be more tentative/placeholders, to be filled in later based on personnel and how they were responding to training.
This. As lease wrote the specifics would be adjusted.
I make rough outline starting backwards from the targeted race, then I fill in with other races I want to do leading up to the main race, then any TT, then rough mileage goals, then I fill in as I go in two week blocks.
I've found trying to plan too far out isn't practical. Just too many things get in the way, from weather, to work, life, pandemics, whatever..