Through 2010-14 I have held discussions, meetings, race and program reviews, and constructed strategic performance plans with over 700 runners and coaches (and 350+ triathletes). Here are the Top Ten Run-training Traps as a summary. There’s also a cure or ‘get-out’, and a long-term prevention strategy for each.
You want training to be what you want it to be, and effective. Yet, amongst the technology, self-professed gurus, and Coach-google, basic training errors are still made: many out of running’s present culture, some out of habit and ego. Are you trapped by these?
So far, we've looked at:
Trap 1: Training Habits - as your, goals, capacity and experience change so your planning, and training should.
Trap 2: No Plan - plans provide direction and guidance, and shouldn't be confused with your program nor weekly routine
Trap 3: No Log, Journal or Diary - they're different things. Construct your own (by hand) and use the the feedback to feed-forward to plan, train and run better.
Trap 4: Lack of Athletic Intelligence - develop your smarts for, of and from your running, training, races and performance. Become a smarter, better runner.
There some traps that relate directly to your training, and are good follow-ons from Traps 1 & 2...
An interval session, a tempo or threshold
run and a long run per week don’t make a run program. A swim session or deep-water
session here, an elliptical or cycle session there, don’t make cross-training;
a cross-fit workout here a boot-camp there, don’t make purposeful or targeted functional
strength training. Training sessions organized as a weekly routine aren’t a
program, nor a plan. They are simply a smattering of varied sessions –
bits-of-this and bits-of-that, ‘in hope’ of getting better:
Trap 1: Training Habits - as your, goals, capacity and experience change so your planning, and training should.
Trap 2: No Plan - plans provide direction and guidance, and shouldn't be confused with your program nor weekly routine
Trap 3: No Log, Journal or Diary - they're different things. Construct your own (by hand) and use the the feedback to feed-forward to plan, train and run better.
Trap 4: Lack of Athletic Intelligence - develop your smarts for, of and from your running, training, races and performance. Become a smarter, better runner.
There some traps that relate directly to your training, and are good follow-ons from Traps 1 & 2...
Trap 5: The Mish-Mash, Hodge-Podge or Bitsa training
week:
An interval session, a tempo or threshold
run and a long run per week don’t make a run program. A swim session or deep-water
session here, an elliptical or cycle session there, don’t make cross-training;
a cross-fit workout here a boot-camp there, don’t make purposeful or targeted functional
strength training. Training sessions organized as a weekly routine aren’t a
program, nor a plan. They are simply a smattering of varied sessions –
bits-of-this and bits-of-that, ‘in hope’ of getting better:- Get out: Train with purpose, flexibility and enjoyment. Appreciate that not all types of sessions need to be done each week, nor given the same emphasis each week of your program or plan. Avoid the same session that your entire squad does week-in week-out
- Prevention: Are you caught up in run-training culture and can’t see the forest for the trees? Construct or revisit your plan, and work your plan. The nature, structure and content of your sessions should be individualised, progressive and cyclic, and change (become more race specific) as you move through your development and season or year.
If you do little bits of everything you're likely to achieve a whole lot of not much.
How does your week, program and plan look? Bits of this and bits of that?
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