Clarity over maintenance Please!!

[Charlie_Francis]

@Track007

Thanks

If improvement is significant (based on training times compared to the previous year- as seems to be indicated currently), could an athlete do their SPP much closer to the trials, possibly even competing during the SPP (by using one or two low level comps to replace SE and to sharpen up a little as I doubt that they are going to be so superior as to be able to approach the trials without competition beforehand)? If so would reducing the volume of max strength work such as 2x3@90% for lower body strength work whilst mixing the odd competition? By doing this the athlete would be in a better position to peak for the main event (i.e. Worlds).

Also if athlete had done short to long is the shorter time at SE a reason to emphasize more 200m races (opposite to the L-TO-S need to maximise max velocity)?

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well I wouldn’t make big changes for two reasons:
1:The plan has been working
2:The athlete needs to qualify first before worrying about Worlds.
Get in the meets before the trials as I suggested.
With the weights, you should be able to go with 3s lower body for some time and still have the capacity to drop the numbers but I’d stay at 95% and above. Remember, the same weight/rep scheme will actually get easier due to familiarity, allowing comp to coincide, before the plateau begins to cause strength losses. At that point you can reduce reps/poundage.
Your last point about the difference in race numbers between 100s and 200s is prob valid up to a point though I wouldn’t go below 4 for the 100 even with S-to-L.
With L-to-S, you might get away with 3 rather than 4 200s due to the SE background difference but with the possibility of doubling in meets, it would be unlikely to find enough of one event but not the other.