Progression from year to year

Expert Discussion Advanced Sprint Training
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Charlie/others

I am interested in your thoughts on how you progress with the sprints from one year to the next. Ideally as the athlete becomes more advanced (in training age) you can spend more time on levels of training that are higher in intensity, and not have to spend so much time on “general conditioning”, or working at a lower level of intensity.

This is fine for a year or two, then you get to the point where you are spending a large amount of time at high intensity, and this surely cannot be maintained for a long period like 6 months in a build up.

So, surely a program shouldn’t stay the same from year to year, and the other option of increasing volume (which I am lead to believe that doing more isn’t going to make you better, if I read CFTS correctly), so what are members thoughts on how you change volume/intensity from one training year to the next?

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As you get faster year to year your intensity in respect to your fastest time goes up no matter what. For example if in 2001 you best 100 was 11.0 at the begining of the season and you were working out at 90% of 11.0 and then later in the season you best 100 is 10.7 your are working out at 90% of that which is faster. Then the following year your intensity may not be 90% of your 10.7 but it should not be as slow as the intensity of your 90% at 11.0.
so its a continuing process… as your times get faster your training times get faster year to year. Not so much the direct intensity. 90% OF 11.0 Is not as fast as 90% of 10.5.
hope i explained this clearly and correctly.