I thought that this whole thing was based on a shot putter with only one competition at the end of the season with a training season of 48 weeks.
Originally Posted by Principles
I was curious to know how you could have 5 phases? How would this look in an annual plan. This would be much appreciated.
Thanks for your efforts
Originally posted by Charlie
I can’t give specifics without knowing more but I can give some general concepts.
Take the total training year and divide into five parts, working backwards from the key meet based on:
1: The cycles will have greatly diminishing GPP portions after the first one and that first one will be shorter than is common in the sprints.
2: The taper periods into major competition will be much briefer than they would be for the sprints.
3: The maintenance phase will be very brief after the max strength phase and briefer each cycle.
4: Following from the previous points, the Max Strength Phase will remain more constant than in other sports models and therefore each subsequent phase will consume more and more of the overall percentage of the time in the phase. The constancy of the Max Str Phase is needed in order to tolerate high loads, even though the increases are diminishing.
5: The strength increase differential will start with a bit less than in a sprint plan and diminish throughout till just matching the previous highs in Ph5. Percentage increases might follow a pattern like…
Ph1: 4%, Ph2: 3%, Ph3: 2%, Ph4: 1%, Ph5: 0%.
6: Rest weeks or portions of weeks will need to be built in.
So… How about taking a 48 week season and creating a plan based on the above. That gives you and average of 9 weeks per phase if you build in 3 weeks of rest divided over the 4 gaps between phases (comp time included in the phases) After you come back with something, we can work on it.