I had a question regarding the volumes of speed work during unloading weeks in a meso.
Say you did 200-220-240 for Acc. Dev. during the 1st 3 weeks of a meso, would 180m during the 4th week be too much of a drop? Is there a certain way you should decrease volumes for different types of workouts (i.e. - SE, speed endurance, maxV, etc.)?
This subject is one I’m confused on as I now have the dates of my meets for next year and am in the process of making out my blueprint for this year. Any assitance would be appreciated.
I have been wondering about that for quite sometime now 400Stud, I just didn’t know how to word the question. Thanks for putting it out there. Someone help please.
Well each phase will be different, but let’s say GPP (only 4 weeks for me) and I’m emphasizing the acceleration part of my race and my acc. dev. is just reps of 10-30m.
I’m doing acc. dev. during 2 mesos – GPP and the 1st meso of SPP. During the first meso of SPP I’ll be starting to incorporate Split Runs as well to start in with the endurance training.
I don’t think you’d need to back off at all. Very unlikely that the intensity of these runs would warrant it. You’ll probably build the whole 4 weeks, its basically accumulation.
So I can build for 7 weeks, basically, and then back off on week 8 of acc. dev. workouts? Or just build up all 8 weeks since intensity isn’t a big factor?