What Phaze To Do After Winter Track To Start Of Spring Track?

Expert Discussion Advanced Sprint Training
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I am a High School Coach and a question I have been asking myself this year is what to do with my top athletes after the winter season? For winter track i go through the general prep phase, special prep phase, pre-comp and then comp. Many of my top athletes last meet will be in late February, so obviosuly i will be training them to peak, however Spring Track starts about 2 weeks after the last winter meet, so how should i train them when Spring Track begins? What phaze should i start them out with? and how much rest should i give them in between winter track and spring track?

Thanks

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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You could do a week or two of GPP for “rest” and then go back into pre-comp work. When is your first spring competition? What events are they running?

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Our first meet in spring is the very first week of April. They are all sprinters ranging from the 100 up to the 400. I was thinking of giving them 5 days off from winter to spring and then starting in the Special Prep Phase for a month, then pre-comp for a month and then comp for the end of the season. Any other suggestions?

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wouldn’t u want to do like 1-3 weeks of GPP and then sp2?

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That could be a good approach, i am 50/50 about starting from scratch with the General Prep Phase with these particular 7 athletes. Spring Track is a shorter season then winter, so i plan on doing only 3 phases.

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If you do a really short GPP phase, there shouldn’t be too much detraining and you can shorten all the phases as needed.

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With athletes who competed for you indoors you I not take back into GPP. Unload for 2 weeks (You can actually consider this GPP) then go into a short special prep/ precomp phase (These phases are very similar and depending on your workouts they can be named interchangeably)and depeding on length of the season have them train throught 25-35% of the meets and then go directly into competion.

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Wasn’t there a thread before with xlr8 and charlie discussing this? I’ll try to find it.

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If its not far to outdoors woulnd’t u want to do maybe a light week followed by maybe a unload/1 week of gpp for further recovyer and then go into sp2?/precomp

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That is pretty much how I would do it. Remember we may all be agreeing on the same thing but as far as semantics go it may seem different. Varying volume and intensity is what we are talking about and if we stick to our basic principals and ask ourselves what makes sense and how our atletes are feeling we are probably doing the right thing.

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This sound pretty good. I think i may unload for 2 weeks, then go into special prep 2 for 2 weeks. Then From there go to pre-comp for 4 weeks and then Comp for the rest of the year. I’ll make changes depending on how they feel.

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Sounds like a good plan. But as I said the “gpp spp precomp and comp” are just words. What really matters is the workouts you are doing and the volume and intensities in each of you “phases”.

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Yes I understand, with each phase our volume and intensity will gradually increase. Since spring is a much shorter season compared to winter, I will only do 3 phases, but this method has been succesfull with our program in the past, as I have done it the past 2 years with the results being very very good.

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The first 2 weeks of unloading would kind of be like a GPP. I would be doing workouts such as 6x200’s at 80 to 85% with 2 minutes recovery, or 5 250’s at 80-85%. The special prep phase for 2 weeks would be some split runs of 200-100 at 90%, and possible special endurance 2. Pre-Comp would be Special Endurance 2 and speedwork next to 95%. Comp phase would obviously be Spec Endurance and Max Velocity at 100%.