Planning
Three Powerful Strategies to Incorporate in Your Season Plan
While it’s always good to look back on the past with a critical eye, it is equally important to celebrate the successes — the changes that we made this year that led to some breakthrough performances.
Three Times You Want to See Your Little Blue Line Take a Nose Dive
Athletes who use the TrainingPeaks Performance Manager Chart effectively have a potentially huge advantage over their competition in their ability to see the big picture at a glance.
Managing Your Coach
Here are some ideas for managing your coach. I recommend that you print this out and run through these questions on your next call.
Breakthrough Training: Four Key Lessons for the Serious, Frustrated Athlete
Those with big goals — Kona qualification, IM podium — simply can’t afford to take an ad-hoc approach any more.
Energy Management
The higher the performance level of the athlete, the greater his or her awareness of and ability to manage the energy available with which to work.
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.
