Track work

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TRACK SESSIONS

In a bid for faster times, Coaches and athletes should always have a component of speed integrated within the training schedule. This may seem obvious to some, but this stands true even during the winter off season training where many groups regress too deeply into the age old art of building a so called aerobic base. Speed should always be present in any one of the training weeks throughout the year.

It is speed work in its structure that is fundamental to the conversion of muscular structure and neural pathways, which provides success to the athlete.

If it is speed that the athlete wants, it makes no sense to give them a winter of high volume track sessions with short recoveries. It will only make them good at these types of sessions, but not speed!

The correct placement within the training week, the accumulated distance of a session and the recoveries between the runs are all crucial calculations made by the coach to ensure the quality of the work being done and the effect it has on the athlete.

Examples of SprinTech track sessions are available upon request. Although the SprinTech training system is not an online coaching service. Just email your details to coach@sprintech.co.uk

At SprinTech all training times are entered into the SprinTech’s software training database (see below).

SPRINTECH TRAINING SOFTWARE

Early warning signs to an athletes performance tail off in track training times, can only be highlighted with exceptional record keeping.

The SprinTech training software provides this with such efficiency that athletes can be pre-warned of performance tail off, even within a given track session. Athletes should expect their coach to give them regular target times and be warned when they are falling short of these. Only then can an athlete evaluate their commitment or the coach re-examine his or her training strategy. Of course injury, illness and other understandable reasons for slower than usual times should always be taken into account.

Regular repeats of training sessions and the ability for the athlete to see immediate history of training times on an organised database are excellent tools used within the SprinTech training system.