Okay, so now you're at the point where you're taking
everything that you've learned throughout this course and
we're going to put it together in an athlete's training plan.
Now, planning an athlete's workouts over days and months and
years has a very long history.
It actually began in the ancient Olympic Games.
They planned the training for their athletes.
A training plan begins with the goals the athlete wants to accomplish,
and usually there is a major competition involved in these goals.
And the task is to then break the training year or season into training blocks.
And the most common training blogs outlined by traditional
paradization theory, includes the macrocycles,
and the periods, and the mesocycles and microcycles.
The training sessions and the training units, and
we've been through all of these.
And then the chore is to decide the broad training content
categories for each of these training blocks.
And the final task is to add the specific training content.
Now in the back of your mind
are the paradization design parameters that we talked about.
And one, of course, is the repeating supercompensation cycles.
And there's also the training continuity.
And there is the wave shape training loads in each training cycle.
And this ensures adequate recovery and adaptation.
And there are many examples of training plans available.
And this example that we're going to discuss here, has been adapted for
one that I found on the Canadian Athletics Coaching Centre.
And it's a document entitled, Building the Annual Plan.
And it's a really nice example of the thinking behind these steps for
putting a training plan together.
So we're going to use this document and kind of adapt it for my discussion here.
So in this lesson, you're going to do one thing.
You're going to learn the steps involved in developing an annual training plan.