Posts From Alan Couzens
Go Fast When the Race is Slow – A Case Study
A bit of a departure from my series on flexibility this week to indulge one of my guilty pleasures: Power File Analysis!
Functional Flexibility
The early part of the season is the perfect time to work on all of those “little extras” that tend to fall by the wayside once the hours of SBRing start to creep up.
Training Camp Benchmarks
I thought it might be apt to write a short piece on some of the key workouts that I like to include in my athletes’ plans during the course of a big week.
Fueling a Training Camp
With EC’s recent Tucson camp fresh in my mind I thought it might be a good time to chat about one of the less considered elements in training camp planning: nutrition.
Season Planning – Part IV: Determining Training Volume and Intensity
In this final installment, I’m going to bring the concepts of phasing your season and planning training stress together and show how these elements go into determining the actual training volume and intensity that we plan for each week.
Season Planning – Part III: Determining Load Structure
What does chronic training load (CTL) mean in terms of actual daily load?
Season Planning – Part II: Setting Phases, Objectives and Checkpoints
Once we know the athlete’s starting point and end destination, we can begin to identify some checkpoints along the way that let the coach and the athlete know they are on the right course.
Season Planning – Part I: Realistic Goal Setting
I figured it apt to begin at the beginning and look at how to go about undertaking that crucial first step of setting performance goals for next season.
Are You a “Skilled” Swimmer? Part II
With the onset of winter, many of you will be returning to the ever-frustrating mission of trying to make up some more ground on those elusive folk who perpetually lead you out of the water –- the ex-swimmers.
Improving Your Recover-Ability
One of my main interests over the last year has been teasing out the impact of both fitness and fatigue on performance.
