@Gareth_Sandford As a long term runner & coach (40, 34yrs), "soft surfaces" is a misnomer - with degrees of "softness" eg. wet vs dry sand (& grain size); long vs short vs dry/wet & grass type. Age, sudden change in relative volume of (fast) running on new/softer surface increases injury risk IME
@wildy_jj A "coach" 👍
A physical education teacher 👍
Context may assist here - is it in an applied setting (see above), academic (teaching/lecturing), research, and/or sales context?
@balsalobrephd Nice work.
I’m now 56 and started similar when I turned 21yo, with 21 squats, 21 chin-ups, 21 lunges each leg, 21 push-ups.
Add 1 each birthday. Perform first day of each new season, chin-ups and push-ups now done in 3-4 sets
@Gareth_Sandford Tactics/position indeed; and, SPAM: the athlete with the greatest SPeed reserve; the better Mentally astute/prepared athlete; the athlete who ‘better’ Adapts to the context incl conditions, pressure & real competition
@andykirkland71 3/2. competition calendar and more immediate (cyclic, daily & task) objectives. As you mention, (importantly) based on principles not prescription.
IME, much curricula has got very lost in (not) teaching essence of process of periodisation as nothing more than loading patterns
@andykirkland71 2/2. IMO (total) load/stress & time support adaptation, not models. Classics (Harre, Bompa, Schmolinsky, Matveyev) all highlight periodisation as a process requiring individual flexible/agile progression toward longer term aims (development) amidst medium term goals (annual…)
@andykirkland71 1/2 Interesting perspective. Have worked within periodisation as a ‘process’ since 1980. Never considered it a management model, yet a framework of progress(ion) with layered time, cultural, and (varied) sport & individual sensitivities….
@Gareth_Sandford Agreed. Worked in Australian Football 14 years in. time of cultural change in physical preparation. The kind, volume & distribution of ‘aerobic-work’ (even within skill-drills) so as not to negatively affect speed, power & strength work (and improve year-to-year) were keys
@Gareth_Sandford Nice insight 👌May I also add: balancing the tension between expectation, belief & realisation; and, recognising gaps in the tension between sensing and seizing the moment(s)
@Gareth_Sandford Dependent upon age, interval experience, priority of training block, 'load' of sports skills/drills, rehab, & performance level:
MAF (recovery); true Fartlek
MAS (6min) 150m-400m intervals incl shuttle-run
%100m sprint time ("tempo" intervals)
ASR @Gareth_Sandford
RPE (/10)