Frequently asked questions
The questions that come up before starting. If yours is not here, write and ask it.
| Questions | 13 |
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| Answered by | the people who plan |
| Not here | write and ask |
Before you start
Training that develops strength and endurance inside the same programme rather than in separate seasons. It is what the market usually calls hybrid training. The work is in sequencing the two so that each keeps progressing and neither is quietly sacrificed.
Not by itself. The interference effect is real but its size depends on the modality, the proximity of the sessions and the total load. Adaptations compete when sessions are placed badly, the load exceeds the recovery available, or the phase has no stated priority. All three are planning problems.
A template cannot know your training history, your week, your equipment or your injuries, and it cannot change its mind when the block does not go as written. If a generic plan is still producing progress, keep following it. Planning earns its fee at the point where it stops.
The log is read before every scheduled review, against the plan it was supposed to follow, and the amendment is written with the reason for it. That is the whole service. There is no automatic progression that runs regardless of what happened.
Small corrections happen at the review cadence we agree at the start, usually fortnightly or monthly, and larger changes whenever your response to the training says they are needed.
Your plan already contains instructions for a week that goes wrong, so most disruptions are handled without contacting me. When a disruption is long enough to change the phase, I rewrite the phase and record why.
If the question is specific to your situation, it is faster to ask it directly than to look for it here. Describe the goal and the week you have.
What are you training for?
Describe your goal, your horizon and the week you actually have. I reply with whether I am the right fit and what a proposal would cover.
I read every enquiry myself. You get a straight answer about whether I am the right fit, and if so, a written proposal with the scope, the fee and the schedule for your plan.
Nothing is charged through this website, and there is no account to create. If I am not the right fit I will say so and, where I can, point you somewhere better.
- A horizon of at least eight weeks. Below that, a plan is a schedule, not a progression.
- A willingness to record sessions, honestly, including the ones that did not happen.
- Medical clearance where a condition, an injury or a long layoff makes it appropriate.
- A realistic statement of available days, hours and equipment, not the ideal week.