Joe’s team sched. for next few weeks is 3 days/week. Basicaly getting in shape for those kids not playing soccer or basketball; lots of short speed, block starts, sleds, chutes.
starting last week of feb, every friday, we have practice/or qualifying meets through march and then april is conference meets.
Last 2 or 3 weeks we aimed at concurrent training (short and long) with short speed, specific end, and speed end, with tempo in between and 2 off days per week.
I dont want to meddle into his coach’s job so:
If Joe has practice mon/wed/thurs, described as above, I can insert tempo/, and speed end/ and or specific end/, maybe going 6 days a week. that would look like :
mon: team
tue: tempo
wed: team
thurs:team
fri: tempo/ or off
sat: speed end (300/250)
or specific end (2-3x 200)
sun: off
We do this because Joe does all the sprints and needs his specific and speed end kept up for a decent shot at a 48 sec 400 this May.
Does this seem like a way to keep on track?
this sched would change in march where with meets on fridays, they practice mon/tue/wed and short on thurs.
I think you mean speed and special. You do not have any speed endurance listed, but rather SE II and SE I. I don’t think there is anything necessarily wrong with your plan, depending on what he is doing with the team during the week. I would consider doing one or two sessions of 350’s, seeing as many of the recent successful 400m programs have used them. This would be a good SE II workout for him.
Before you can plan anything for Joe’s days away from his school training, you need to know precisely what has been covered at school.
You also should find out where the school training is heading. If it’s been all short but will eventually go long, then maybe you shouldn’t mess with it at all.
But if you have all the info, then you can add what has been left-out if you feel that won’t “spoil the broth”.
I’d be giving Joe the day off on Friday, at least off running.
That would set him up for something with quality involved on Saturday.
Check the lactate threshold thread for thoughts on special endurance etc for 400m. That thread has been extracted from Archives and is back in the Sprint Training box.
Whatever you do on the weekend, make sure Joe’s technique is good and pull him up if it isn’t.
Your most important job may be to correct him technically, advise him of tension (elevated shoulders etc), and help him get rid of tightness (with massage therapy, etc) to make sure he survives what is likely to be high intensity training with his school team.
kk
I agree with KK u have to know where the stills heading if there going erally short it possible be a pre for raising spreed reserve so later in the year u can go out longer for a month without worries of dropping speed. If anything the non school days u can concentrate on teqnique and some solid tempo.
thanks friends,
I told Joe lastnite that we would have to do some speed end or spec end since he wasnt getting it, and he said that he would like the weekend off (he did tempo on friday) since coach told him they would be doing some long sprints monday…
i told him I’d wait and see exactly what coach will be doing… but he will keep up the tempo in between unless they do some…
3 days/week gives me room to cover his needs…
thanks, check Joes journal in the next week, and I will be summing up in this thread each week.
yeah the first priority is to see what the school is doing and work around it. Maybe supplement weights after workouts and try and gain there if the school stuff isn’t perfect. U gotta work around what u need to rite. You work with the conditions u have until otherwise needed