I know a lot of you break down your training in a great order that allows you to recover well and still get in a lot of work. I just finished my first sprint, it was closer to an olympic though… It was 800, 19, and 4… Anyway, my training right now is basically just three 20-25 mile rides a week with a 2 mile run following, and three 5-7 mile runs a week, and then 3-4 2000 M swim sessions a week. I want to get ready and in shape to COMPETE in an olympic in June. Can someone set me up a week long schedule of what a solid training schedule would look like? Keep in mind that I am a college student, so I do have some time obligations. Also, I would like to do at least one track workout a week, any suggestions on what to do for that? Thank you very much…
Anyone?
There’s a lot to writing a useful training schedule, which is probably why you haven’t gotten any responses. Sure, anyone could send you a generic one week plan. A monkey could write down a week’s worth of workouts. Maybe it’d help you a lot, maybe it’d help you a little, or maybe it’d injure you and set you back.
Granted, writing a schedule is a very important part of coaching someone. However, a schedule only becomes truly useful and valuable when written by someone who knows what they’re doing and has the following info about you (this is just a sampling of the info, i.e., not a complete list): your available time for training; your current health status; your athletic background; your injury history; your relative strengths and weaknesses between disciplines and within each discipline; the training resources you have available; the equipment you have; and the list goes on and on.
Sorry, this didn’t provide you with a schedule, but maybe it’ll give you some insight into why just following a generic training plan with no customization for an athlete, is kinda sketchy and not necessarily all that productive.
In my opinion, the easiest way to get a training plan is to spend $20 on this book
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