Training Principles

5 Training Principles:

1. Overload and Recovery
2. Progression
3. Individuality
4. Specificity
5. Systematic Approach

Overload and Recovery:

Cycle periods of stress with rest within the different cycles- Macro, Meso, Micro.

Hard workouts provide the POTENTIAL to get in better shape (faster, stronger, more endurance). That POTENTIAL is realized through rest. The more stress, the more required rest to see maximum fitness gains.

Progression:

Training must progress to continue to see gains in fitness within the Overload and Recovery cycle.

Individuality:

The plan and training sessions must be personalized to the individual. Train your Weaknesses and Race your Strengths. What’s good for one person isn’t necessarily good for another.

Specificity:

The closer race day comes, the more training must simulate and prepare athletes for the demands of race day. Training must resemble the activity you want to perform at the intensity you plan to perform it at.

Systematic Approach:

The ATP must address all of the above. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. There is no secret sauce- only consistency. The Mundanity of Excellence:

“Excellence is mundane. Excellence is accomplished through the doing of actions, ordinary in themselves, performed consistently and carefully, habitualized, compounded together, added up over time.”