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April 16, 2009, 11:58am
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I agree, in GPP the overall intensity is lower so the athlete can handle almost anything. If you follow the layout CF outline, I think the athlete would be OK but with the SPP graphs then you may be asking for trouble. I have used three high intensity days with some athletes:
Mon: Speed
I don’t think it is absolutely necessary, but I think it can work and many programs end up being like that anyway.
Example, in GPP I have two days of accel and one day of int. tempo/SE.
I imagine if it was distributed a little differently, it could work into SPP. I think you’d have to really watch the volumes and everything, but it could work. While there are definitely people who can’t handle 3x a week hard, if you do it the way Charlie is describing here (essentially 2 days starts to 30m or so and 1 day of SE), you could probably be fine.
I also think more frequent is objectively better IF you can tolerate it. That is a big IF, but all of the motor learning research and the like indicate more frequent is consistently better, across activities and skill class. The more important part though would finding a workload you can easily tolerate and recover from, though.