Dear SkiPost,
My coach developed a training plan for me. Should I follow it exactly or
can I adjust it as I feel, or depending who I train with. When friends train with me sometrimes and and on easy days I often go harder than the training plans says. is this ok?
BC
Planning Training is like a budget. It is alive and changes with the world, even so, you need the plan, so that you no when and how to change and modify your training. Keeping track of what you do and how you respond is simple accounting. You can check on it later and learn from what you have done.
Skiers should make yearly, monthly and weekly plans and then daily plans. Prior to the year you make your yearly plan. Prior to each month you plan that month; before each week you make a plan; and same with each day.
It is not an obsessive process. The most fascinating thing about top athletes is their focus. They are at all times aware of what it takes to achieve and reach the goals they have set for themselves. Every time they train it is to achieve something. Every workout has a purpose. An easy training session is only successful if the tempo/lactate/heart-rate was kept down. A level 3 interval session is only successful if the heart-rate is kept within the pre determined levels. A hard workout is only successful if it was done at the right level. The athlete always has a certain type of training in mind and does everything to achieve the objectives of the day. Too fast, too long, too short or too long a session means that he/she did not achieve the objective of the day.
It might sound like the athletes are up tight. This is not the case at all. They just know what it takes to become good and what their bodies need and can take. They do not train two sessions every day, they do not train when they are sick, they are not obsessed with training, they have lives outside of training, they take days off, they work or go to school and best of all; they have a healthy perspective on sports.
BC, you may need to adjust your weekly and monthy plans to allow training with your friends that still achives your trainnig goals. Schedule your plan so that the days that you plan to training with your friends you can still keep focuses and achieve the goals outlined.
Answered years ago by Trond Nystad: Former, US & Swiss Ski Team coach.
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