hELLO, HAS THE ATHLETE ON dvd GOT ANY MORE RESULTS DURING SEASON?
Just received my “Peaking” dvd. My comments would only be considered redundancy but I couldn’t be happier with the product. It’s well worth the price. Most impressive is the fact that the taper is in real-time. No editing in later meets to get a good race result. No propaganda or spin promoting Charlies methods. Just cut and dry (What we are doing and why we are doing it): Last perfomance: 10.6+ and fairly stagnant for the past several years, [10 day taper], 10.32 PB. What found interesting was the volume of speed work during the taper. I expected much more and was kinda shocked with what was actually done. Another point was how small technical corrections yielded considerable improvements in performance. I have learned so much. Thank you Derek and Charlie.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go watch it again. Work productivity will be at an all time low today.
is this in download or dvd still?
It’s a DVD because it’s over two hours long- too much for a download. You can order it from Derek at the link at the beginning of this thread.
Just ran across this. Can you give us an idea of the length of each part? Stagnation/regression can also be a product of the length of the exposure and/or the degree of compensation throughout (ie 3 weeks intensification/ one week maintenance/recovery)
I don’t suggest staying away from middle runs, I was just pointing out that in 1988 (only) Ben missed much of this work and went longer with the short time left.
You’ll be flat as a pancake in the meet
To those who have bought the Taper DVD from CF.com, I will be sending out copies of the annual plan used to set up that year (2005-2006). It will give you an idea of what kind of training we did, and paint a picture of our facility circumstances (indoors running 30m or 40m in a hallway for 4-5 months of the year).
I will also provide the 2006-2007 plan, which is similar, but I thought we went overboard on the volume, especially given the weather conditions. We were flat for many meets as much of our work was zero to 30m, compounded by too much lifting and explosive work (our lifting 1RM’s went up, but our times didn’t drop - big problem).
This year we have cut back on the lifting volume, and tried to do some longer runs (long to short, combined with short to long) to manage our weather and facility constraints, as well as CNS fatigue. It seems to be doing well. We are still lifting very heavy, but with less fatigue, stiffness and hypertrophy.
Awesome, I cant wait!
I’ve e-mailed off the files to DVD buyers. Some got sent back, so let me know if you haven’t received them (and provide me with a more current e-mail address). Thanks.
Awsome work No2!
For those who have not seen his other products I suggest you check them out ASAP!
#2,
Thanks again for sending this!
Just looked over your tempo for 06-7 chart. This is still new to me. What was your reasoning for the wave loading for tempo each week?
Also, what do SP, MB, SB mean ? Does each row in the strength charts equal day 1 2 3 respectively? i.e. 15, 15, 15 = day 1; 6, 6, 6, 6 = day 2?
I’ll vary the tempo in a subtle manner depending on what we did the previous day and what is coming up the next sprint training day. In most cases, we stay close to 2000m per session.
RB - repetition break
SB - set break
SP - sled pull
MB - med-ball throw preceding sprint
UH - uphill sprint
BS - block start
PUS - push-up start
30+m = accel 30m then maintain the rest
Yes, the weights are Day 1, Day 2, Day 3. When it says 15 reps, we don’t do 15 reps of one exercise. Usually for general prep, we’ll do a deadlift rep, then a powerclean rep, then a front squat - then repeat it for 5 cycles (hence, 15 reps of lifts). It moves the work around the body, and allows us to work on some postural muscles and skills. Similarly, we’ll do a front squat, push press and then push jerk in sequence.
Hope that helps! Sorry, the notation is for my purposes. I didn’t expect to be having others read this.
Were the short sprints done on the track from day 1?
Thanks.
Any reason for using close grip bench instead of regular bench for max strength phase?
Very interesting…I’m kinda shocked/surprised that you had to resort to doing indoor sprints in a hall…cor blimey…are things really that bad in parts of canada?
Any reason for the change in programme(S-L to L-S) for this year…? From what I’ve seen of the DVD, the subject had great results during the outdoor season of the S-L type training.
There has been the “thought” in some funding circles that Vancouver is a tropical climate and needs no indoor facility, though one wonders how that fits with hosting the winter Olympics.
We typically do approx 4-6 weeks on grass or turf in flats for our accels, drills, jumps. It prevents any lower leg and foot soreness.
Our Bench Press (regular grip) was getting up over 300lbs for reps and some shoulder soreness and tightness was appearing. We switch to close grip (approx 12-14 inch grip width) and a lower bar carriage (lower chest/upper rib cage contact) with the elbows in to take pressure off the pecs and shoulders.
Seem to work for us…
Mostly CNS stress. It was obvious from the feedback I was getting from the athletes. Also, the readings from my poor-man’s Omega wave device was showing high stress levels (parasympathetic response was poor) due to running 30m sprints for three sessions per week. I have included some variation at longer distances and we seem to be fresher. The quality of work has improved significantly on our two short-speed/accel days.
Even in 2005-2006 when the taper dvd was filmed, we had some injury issues earlier in the season (hamstring). It was a combination of weather challenges and fatigue (leading to poor mechanics in speed work). In some ways, the time off due to injury gave him a break from the CNS stress (inadvertently) - unplanned rest. So, instead of injuring him, I’m trying to unload some of the stress pro-actively.
I hope I’m right!
Mostly CNS stress. It was obvious from the feedback I was getting from the athletes. Also, the readings from my poor-man’s Omega wave device was showing high stress levels (parasympathetic response was poor) due to running 30m sprints for three sessions per week.
I would think the strength training volume was high, too.
What kind of 1RMs improvement did you get from the program?
Do you have any device to monitor how the program is affecting power output?