Training Articles - Planning
- Mastering the Boards
With the major indoor championships during the winter upon us, the man who finished 4th in the world indoor championship 1,500m final in Budapest in 2004, gives an insight into the specific demands of mastering the boards in the context of a double peak periodisation of training.
- Create Your First Training Programme
Learn how to progress at the gym, and how to put it all together into a cohesive training program that will eliminate your pre-gym jitters and help you achieve your workout goals
- Fitness Planning
Many people have drawn up a beautiful fitness plan at one point or the other in their lives. Unfortunately, only a handful of people remain committed to their program after a few months. There are many reasons why this happens, but the most common cause is getting overwhelmed by the routine. So, what is the solution?
- Running Abroad
Before you hop on the next outbound flight though, be sure to do your research. While there are thousands of races in countries worldwide, each race presents its own set of obstacles and challenges. The key point is to know what you are getting into before you get into it.
- A Personal Personal Trainer
With the help of an at home personal trainer, you will have an expert with invaluable knowledge ready to help you with whatever your fitness goals may be.
- Planning your athlete's training is
essential - here is how to do it
How to prepare your training program to ensure both short and long-term objectives are achieved at the right time in the season.
- Will tapering before races increase performance?
Endurance athletes will spend a tremendous amount of time training to be able to compete successfully. Their huge volume of work leaves them to near exhaustion, and before a major competition, they have to find the best way to reduce fatigue while retaining fitness.
- When not to train hard
An explanation as to why rest is essential to performance improvement and how to plan it into your training.
- Travel Ideas For The Health Nut In You
If you are all about your health, and it is on your mind all the time, it makes sense that your travel plans are going to revolve around it. There are plenty of options to choose from ocean to ocean when you are considering taking a healthy holiday.
- How to Practice Sport while Social Distancing
It looks like it may be many more months before the coronavirus will subside, so you should wait until it is all over to resume practising your favourite sport. In this respect, the best thing is to find ways to keep active and pursue your sporting passions without compromising your or others’ safety.
- Event Transitioning
So what will enable a 28-year-old, who already owns a bag full of bronze and silver medals at European and Commonwealth championship level to go one better? The answer lies in the physiological, psychological and tactical demands of event transitioning.
- Home Gym
Here is a step-by-step plan for you to create a home gym in any space within a budget.
- Safety Tips When Working Out at Home
Just because gyms are closed does not mean that you should neglect your fitness goals. Even at home, you can still get your daily dose of exercise with a little creativity. However, to ensure that you get the most out of your home workout sessions, safety must remain at the forefront at all times.
- Want to be a Jockey?
If you have dreams of riding a racehorse at the Grand National, Cheltenham or Royal Ascot, there are steps you can take to make your dream career a reality. Find out how to become a jockey in the UK.
- Goal Setting
Goal setting helps athletes define where they want to go and what they want to achieve. It gives a focus, sets the criteria for training and competing, and starts to "own their sport". Just as importantly, it gives you, the coach, a basis to set the training.
- Power through the Pollen
While hayfever cannot be cured by diet, there are steps you can take to help you manage your symptoms, so they cause the least disruption to your exercise plan.
- Knowing at what age an athlete is likely
to achieve peak performance is a big help in planning a training program
An explanation as to the age of an 800m and1500m athlete will potentially achieve their best performance and best prepare for these events.
- How to Squash in the Training
The athletic demands of squash and how to plan your training.
- Tapering for success
A look into why tapering before a competition is beneficial
- The sport that requires the most precise
preparation of them all - Swimming
The athletic demands of swimming and how to plan your training.
- Adaptations to training
If an exercise routine is correctly planned and adequately adhered to, physical strength improvements will result as the body adapts to the load. Here is how to plan your strength training program.
- The FITT Principle … concerning injury prevention
An overview of the FITT principle and its application to avoid injury.
- The Long and Winding Road to Marathon
Improvement - Practical Steps for Mere Mortals
Practical steps for those mere "mortal" athletes, seeking to perform at a higher level. It may not see you on the aeroplane to the next Olympics, but it will provide you with good memories that last a lifetime.
- Goal Setting
When setting goals, the succession of events goes like this: set a goal, have a detailed plan, commit to that plan, and then act. Sound easy? It can be if you take goal setting seriously and approach it systematically.
- Periodisation - Working towards a long-term plan for young athletes
Appropriate programming is necessary for improving performance. Still, it is also essential for reducing the risk of injury to young athletes.
- Look to the past for new training
ideas
It is interesting how much the techniques of those that have gone before us can be ignored. Is this because modern methods are better, or is it because they are lost as each generation passes?
- Planning or lack of it is at the base of
school sport in Japan
An overview of the school rugby system in Japan.
- Preparing for your next
competition
Races are run with the feet but often won with the head. With two runners of equal ability, it is the one who uses his or her head - who focuses, concentrates and thinks best - who comes out on top.
- Designing a Circuit Training session
Circuit training is an excellent way to simultaneously improve mobility, strength and stamina.
- How to design and plan successful
training phases
Consider what the intermediate goals are for each stage, identify them, and what to do to achieve them.
- How to Develop a Training
Program
The process of creating a training program to help develop an individual's fitness level comprises six stages.
- Without a plan, you will be mediocre at
best
The benefits for young athletes of short and long-term planning.
- Periodisation: Myth and
Reality
In a modern sport, performance improvement depends upon proper levels of physical, technical, psychological and tactical preparedness. Different means and methods exist to achieve this high level of readiness.
- Seven strategies for developing the exercise habit
Several suggestions that might help you to establish an exercise routine that will eventually become a habit.
- Designing an effective speed-training
program - Part I
Why is it important to understand your sport or event's needs before you start planning your training?
- Designing an effective speed-training
program - Part 2
The seven steps to building your speed training programme.
- Designing an effective speed-training
program - Part 3
An overview of the components of fitness that contribute to speed development.
- Designing an effective speed-training
program - Part 4
An overview of the six fundamental training principles.
- Designing an effective speed-training program - Part 5
By understanding how the energy systems work and how a particular prescription of exercise develops that particular system, we can facilitate more effective adaptations.
- Planning your sprint training program
How to prepare your sprint training program.
- Elderly Homecare
Homecare services are gaining popularity in the ever-busy world that we are living in today. These services are good for seniors because they receive care in an environment that is safe and comfortable.
- Memory Care
People who have dementia or Alzheimer's will need specialized care. Therefore, you need to find the most comfortable yet affordable facility for them. These guidelines may help you to accomplish this.
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