The purpose of a Training Plan is to identify the work to be carried out to achieve agreed objectives. Training Plans should be drawn up to identify long term (4 years) objectives as well as short term plans for the forth coming season. For the rest of this topic I will concentrate on the development of the short term annual Training Plan. In its simplest form the plan could comprise of a single, A4 sheet identifying the overall plan for the year, and more detailed weekly plans identifying the specific activities the athlete is to carry out.
Training year
The start of the training year will depend upon the athlete's circumstances and objectives, but this would generally be around October for track and field athletics.
Information Gathering
The first stage of preparing a Training Plan is to gather background information about your athlete and the objectives for the forth coming season. The sort of information to collect is as follows:
Personal details
Name, address, date of birth, telephone numbers, transport arrangements
Objectives
Performance (time, height, distance)
Technical (development of event technique)
Indoor and/or outdoor season
Experience
Personal best (PB's)
Competition experience (club, county, national, country)
Equipment
Does the athlete have his own equipment (e.g. starting blocks, javelin etc.)?
Harness and tyre
Elastic harness
Weight jackets
Video camera
Distance, time, % effort matrix chart
Finance
Where can grants be obtained from?
Competition
Date of main competition
National and Area Championships
School , University competitions
Required qualification times for competitions
Fixture lists - Club, County etc.
Open Meetings
Competitors
Who are the competition and what are their PB's?
Recent competition results
Competition behaviour
Athlete's other Commitments
School, college, work, part time jobs
Family and partner
Hobbies and other sports
Time available for training
Planned holidays
Medical
Previous injuries or illness
Current problems (diabetes, asthma etc.)
Access to medical support
Physiotherapy support
On any medication - is it a banned substance?
Using asthma inhaler - application to use Beta 2 agent inhalers
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