Forum,
Lets start off a thread on what you would have done differently over the last year( training wise). Maybe we could all learn from eachothers mistakes and prevent them from occuring in the future.
Personally i should have increased the volume of SE sessions from one to three.
As a longjumper doing technique 2/week, (including approach runs), i think i should have done less sprinting at 98-100% and more at 90-97%. When competition period started i was “burned out”.
I would have changed a few things - but I know what I’m going to do next year
phase 1 -
A fortnights rest (surfing)
A GPP phase
Push for gains in the gym
Lifts b 4 track on acceleration days
No full 60’s til mid Dec
No competition til Feb
Push for gains in the gym
Phase 2 - Depending on how it goes this year -
Cut down weight volume
Move to 80m’s sooner
Phase 3 -
Just keep the weights ticking over
Compete more
Generally I think I was too worried about strength last year - now I’m happy to let gains occur naturally .
Overall I want more massage .
Over the past three seasons i have placed too much emphasis on strength/power now i just work on maintaining strength/power levels and developing SE.
I would have moved to a location that has a climate more conducive to sprinting year-round. Also, I would have won the lottery and hired Charlie as my coach. 
xlr8
Understand that effective adaptation periods are finite and that different components have different adaptation periods. i.e. Plan, rotate, intensify, layer and integrate better.
I would have gone to college somewhere where i knew the coach was sound in technique and wasn’t all about politics and bs like that… I would have stopped when i hurt, and not pushed thru pain… I would have not gone to a track where the angle is such that it banks away from the infield!!!
after doing my first full year of planning and periodization, i understand that i only need to lift once or twice a week throughout the comp phase. i also need to do more power (speed) lifts in the winter.
i need to work on my middle phase by perhaps doing more ins and outs. i wont know how well my periodization schedule works until after ofsaa (state) but we’ll see. some more core work might help too.
i might have to actually do some speed work throughout volleyball as well and do more hurdle stuff throughout the entire year instead of starting the running and everything right when the season starts.
i like this thread, i hope for some good contributions.
now that i have had one year of planned training, hopefully i can refine and get better next year.:shoot:
peace
I would have done sessions with a chiropracter, and more general physio. I also would have had a more consistant mid section routine.
I trained well until I got hurt. However Id fine tune a few things. Run my tempos on grass, & rest my achilles a little longer. Relax when I sprint. Follow a general weight lifting program & leave specific stuff to the track & pit. :afro:
Well, I haven’t even been training for sprinting for the last 12 months. Last summer I still wanted to be a high jumper. But, what I’m now doing and what I would have liked to have done more in a lot of past speed workouts is concentrate more specifically on something instead of just throwing a bunch of 60s, 40s, 30s, ins and outs, 20s, 50s and everything together. I also would have made sure I got to the track once for sprinting and once for tempo on the grass instead of doing things on the street at least once a week. It will be a lot easier next year when I have my liscence.
BTW great idea for a thread.
I would have given my injured heel more time to heal and performed more rehabilitive exercises. (My heel has been pretty bad for over a year 
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I would have not dropped a 20kg plate on my toe:D
(side bar: played my first soccer game back, yesterday, since the injury. It went to extra time. I played the full 120mins. To say I was and am knackered is an understatement).
Back to the issue:
recovery - the other half of training.
flexibility - must improve.
preparation, preparation, preparation,…
GPP
consistency.
Just key words to focus on and improve for this year.
I wouldn’t have changed coaches in January and I would have done less weightlifting in May/June and concentrated more on speed endurance as the end of my races were suffering (especially the 200) I also would not have played basketball and torn my ACL.
Not took weights to failure
Had sufficient and effective recovery/restoration
Not fell off a wall and put shoulder out :o
i would have;
Trained less intesely; Kept to my training plan; Used SDL’s!!
I would have gone to the doctor sooner and had my knee checked out, and the torn ACL would have been diagnosed, and I would be in recovery by now.
Also, with my torn ACL, I would NOT have attempted 3 foot depth-jumps after sprinting for the day two weeks ago. Yes, I am the biggest dunce since Neville Chamberlin. I still have a slight limp.
Surgery is set for June to repair the torn ACL and whatever other damage I did in the foolish depth jumps.
I also would have started speed endurance earlier and not done winter track for my high school.
Have had my athletes probably doing too conservative/too low speed volumes in the past where they could have handled and benefitted from more volume though we won’t make any HUGE increases in the future. We will certainly increase the volume in the future.