Last week was a pretty low week in terms of hours and sessions completed.
I had some good days (3 sessions and 3 1/2 hours done one week day) and some bad days (only making a 90 minute swim on the Saturday). We all know that the weekends (or your days off work) are when you can make hay sunshine or not!
However , all the sessions were good quality and I am coming to understand that this is what counts.
The question is, if you dont have a specific goal in the session should you even be doing it? what is it doing for you? what are the gains?
In coaching you should always have a goal to a session be it to develop your athletes fitness or skills, for example you would have a session that works on aerobic capacity or a session that works on coaching an athlete techniques to improve their efficiency or to learn a new method to streamline their performance such as a running mount out of transition for example.
I make sure that each one of my sessions has a goal, a reason behind them and this helps with motivation. Even if it is something as simple as a low intensity run session to aid recovery (and enable a better performance at the next intense session), it still has a goal.
What are you getting out of your next session??
2013 ITU AG World Champion (Standard), 2013 ITU Paratriathlon (Iain Dawson's guide), 2013 National Champs Silver Medalist, 2012 National Sprint Champion, 2011 Silver European Standard Championships,
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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- TriathleteMatt
- As an ex-National League Basketball player I took up triathlon as a development from cross training. I won my first Sprint distance race and placed second in my first Olympic distance. Since then I have raced the UK Elite Superseries coming 24th in the National Elite Champs, raced Vegas 70.3 WChamps and helped Paratriathlete Iain Dawson to World, European and National Titles. In 2011 I obtained Pro authorisation from the BTF and am pushing my development by stepping up to top level competition in 2012. Aside from this I am a L1 Swim and Tri coach and Professional Lloyds Broker.
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