Melissa Witmer: Priorities For Her Speed Block
(2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
Loading ...Any training self-planner, whether fledgling or veteran, would do well to heed her words on priorities and flexibility – both are keys to success for we amateur (yet comitted) athletes for whom life can get in the way of what’s ideal.
Thanks, Melissa!
Pre-Season Training – Agility, Plyometrics, Movement Training
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Lifting is only one component of my training these days – I’ve been ramping up the explosive work to gear up for more speed training/on-field play as well.
Pre-Season Training – The Lifts
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Continuing to increase strength and adding muscle remain goals for me over the next couple months, along with getting ready to play this season. What am I doing to these ends?
Mobility And Injury Prevention
(No Ratings Yet. Click to Rate!) Loading ...With some broad background explanation given in the past three posts, these next posts will really drill in on specifics I’ll be using for my training. First up: mobility work.
Gray Cook, noted rehab expert (check out Athletic Body in Balance, or his newest book on the functional movement screen), inspires a lot of my thinking here, with a strong tip of the hat to Eric Cressey‘s methods for incorporating mobility work into the warm-up and workout.
My Imbalances – What I Need to Work On
Here’s a list of various imbalances or mobility issues I’ve noticed over the past several months – I’ve already begun working on some of them, but I’d like to formally prioritize them going forward.
Continue Reading »
Starting to Put it Together: Structuring the Week/Day
(No Ratings Yet. Click to Rate!) Loading ...Before I can start arranging all the pieces of the plan, it helps to have an idea of what I want my training week to look like. (I find organizing with a weekly cycle to be the most convenient for me, but you may find a shorter 2 to 4-day cycle makes more sense, especially for beginners when less variety is needed).
Continue Reading »
Planning My Training – Gathering Tools
(No Ratings Yet. Click to Rate!) Loading ...In part 1 of this series, I touched upon my general goals; choosing a site to build, or framing the canvas, if you will. Step 2 from that is to assemble the appropriate tools to construct something befitting the site; after that, I’ll begin putting the pieces together into something coherent and useful.
From each general goal I’ll lay out some specifics in how I’ll go about applying that to my training:
Continue Reading »
Planning My Next Training Phases – General Goals
(No Ratings Yet. Click to Rate!) Loading ...Step 1 in my planning process is always to think about my goals for training.
Some of these goals are more implicit, such as “Become a better ultimate player.” As I’ve alluded to before, these sorts of non-specific goals don’t really do a lot to inform my planning, so it needs to be broken down further.
These are my current general goals:
Continue Reading »
