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April 11, 2010, 1:03am
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Charlie already clarified the issue.
The significance is to look at the trend of weekly volumes of sprint work, categorizing the sprints into the different intensity ranges (start/accel, maxV, speed end, special end), and how the trend takes form; graduated upwards or downwards, again by examining the total weekly volumes of each, either towards the long or short range of the most concentrated efforts.
If one were to take the time to do this for most programs I’d think the trend would become more clear. The problem, which was already pointed out, is that the yearly programs of the top sprinters are not so readily available and drawing concrete conclusions based upon a single training week is a slippery slope.
No so sure about that. People argue intensity on one end and others argue volume. Look at MVP: Sure, 15-20x30-40m hills submax (if you’ve seen the videos) is a lot, but 6x300m @ about 85-90% is a lot as well.