i havent signed in in a while, but im back for some more advice.
well throughout the summer i had gotten much stronger than ever before, thanks to many of u guys. then i started a new program that involved for 4 week cycles, that was building up to indoor season. i got much work done in those cycles for example:
Monday- after weights, we had warm up, 100 jumps, 100 throws, than 30 differnt kinda starts.
Tuesday- tempo, after long wam up, anything from 150-300 repeats with about 4 min rest @ 80%. usually 2 sets of 4.
Thursday- a day with many 30m flys, ins and out etc. usually about 20 total.
those were the hard days of my specific prep. as i mentioned before, i got much stronger this year, yet i feel as if i lost much of my top end speed (past years indoors i would average 2.8 sor 30 fly, this year 3.00)
also, i feel like my body was really bit up. so for the past 3 weeks i focused on quality, and dropped my 60 from 7.07 to 6.91 in 3 weeks, while im still not feeling ready to go.
now, im done with indoors and about to start my prep for outdoors, which i wanna peak in June-July.
please i would really appreciate if someone could give me some pointers about what should i change, or what should i do in the future.
please help me out guys. i have a lot in me, i just need help to bring it out.
sorry for the REALLY long mssg, but im kinda depressed and frustrated right now.
but i thought maybe i could get a point of view with experience straight from the track.
regardless, do u have a specific page u think ishould look at?
I think you’ll find that cfts is more required reading to understand what is discussed here than a specific training plan. But I’d say that the section on Planning and Periodization needs to be understood if you are going to have any success with Charlie’s methods. And I think if you just followed the summary that Charlie has on pages 42-43, your results would be sigtnificantly better than what you are having now. You are doing too many jumps and starts, the tempo is at too high intensity, and you are doing too many flying sprints–and because you are doing way to many of these, what you are doing in sprint training is probably at too low intensity, which is why your performances have gone backward… Go back to what Charlie says and follow it before moving to something different.
The specific training plan as a sample can be found in the Vancouver04 download/DVD.
Lkh said it well, volume is waaaay too high. Im surprised you’re actually able to complete that type of workload without suffering injury; but you pretty much answered a big question as to why you aren’t performing well with all that volume.
Cut the volume back a ton, read CFTS and then you should have a much better understanding on the big picture.
i had a feeling (also b/c i know what CF method is) that my volume is too high. nevertheless, i practice in the U.S with a real good athlete that i dont wanna mention his name, yet it seems like these workouts are not bothering him too much as far as performence. yet, i feel like i have gone back so much with my speed. thereore, i figured if he could it, how come i cant?
Everyone is different man. Just because athlete A can tolerate X amount of volume doesn’t mean athlete B can tolerate the exact same workload. You have to adjust to accommodate your needs so you don’t overtrain and lose speed.