Preparing For A New Season
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PREPARING FOR A NEW SEASON
Happy holidays to all my clients and friends of KMT. Last season was a great year for KONA Multisport Training. I had the opportunity to meet and work with many outstanding athletes and individuals. One thing that was very obvious from my coaching perspective is most of the successful athletes had established their racing and event goals early on in the season and were focused on achieving those goals. On the other hand, the athletes that constantly struggled and underachieved had inconsistent, unrealistic, or no goals at all and were unsure of their training objective. Without goals, eventually you will become unmotivated and your season might turn out to be unrewarding as you will fail to reach your full potential. The first thing I instruct all new clients is to make a list of their goals and aspirations. Training will be meaningless and have no direction without a plan. Your training plan becomes your blue print for your season and a road map to your fitness destination. Most of my current clients have already determined their goals and have a training plan for 2007. They are hard at work preparing for next year by following a core and functional strength training plan and developing their aerobic system to build a solid base to launch their harder efforts in the spring.
NOW is the time to prepare for 2007. Don't wait to the last minute to begin your training. Start NOW!
1.) Determine your goals and aspirations and don't underestimate yourself or underachieve!
2.) Write your goals down and indicate which races/events will be your "A" (top priority) or "B" (supplement and preparation for "A").
3.) Develop a periodization-type training plan working backwards from your "A" races. Ideally, you should plan on peaking for an "A" race once in the spring and once in the fall. Peak conditioning can only be held for about 2 weeks. You can use the hot summer as a transition between the two race/event peaks and return to some more aerobic conditioning.
4.) Give yourself enough time to adequately build an aerobic base and allow your body to adapt physiologically before you increase workout intensity and begin speed work.
Good luck and Happy New Year.
Train hard...train smart.
John