25-05-2012, 02:39 PM
One of the aspects of my background to coaching is performance coaching.
In the use of the word performance, this was determined by doing well on the exact day that it counts.
If it is a championship, then the ideal is to win a medal or to win the title
so there are no chances to come back the next week and perform if you lost out on the title or medal. You need to wait a year before you had the chance to make-up for the mistakes made.
So in order to avoid this and to be ready on the day that counted, you never did things to counter balance your chance on the exact day according to the calendar and the title at stake that day.
if you failed as a top athlete it hurt and it hurt for a long time
so coming back to you and your chance to perform.
As a coach and if we were working on a one on one basis, I would not have recommended you to do any strength training this week when you have a strong chance to go sub 36 minutes for 10km.
whereas strength training and all the elements that balance the runner are beneficial, one of the most enduring and enjoyable aspects of training is to get results.
As a coach I was always held to task, the athletes looked to perform at championship level or an exact day, so my duty was to deliver that performance.
I think you very close to running sub 36 minutes
good luck for the weekend
TheEd
ps.. Albert, do note I am not anti strength training but would like to think there are days when less is better
In the use of the word performance, this was determined by doing well on the exact day that it counts.
If it is a championship, then the ideal is to win a medal or to win the title
so there are no chances to come back the next week and perform if you lost out on the title or medal. You need to wait a year before you had the chance to make-up for the mistakes made.
So in order to avoid this and to be ready on the day that counted, you never did things to counter balance your chance on the exact day according to the calendar and the title at stake that day.
if you failed as a top athlete it hurt and it hurt for a long time
so coming back to you and your chance to perform.
As a coach and if we were working on a one on one basis, I would not have recommended you to do any strength training this week when you have a strong chance to go sub 36 minutes for 10km.
whereas strength training and all the elements that balance the runner are beneficial, one of the most enduring and enjoyable aspects of training is to get results.
As a coach I was always held to task, the athletes looked to perform at championship level or an exact day, so my duty was to deliver that performance.
I think you very close to running sub 36 minutes
good luck for the weekend
TheEd
ps.. Albert, do note I am not anti strength training but would like to think there are days when less is better