Focus clearly only on what needs to be done to get training results
that translate in competition performance. This demands focus on the training tasks
that are meaningful. Eliminate the nice to do activities that make you tired
but don’t make you better. It is so trite to say but less is more. Find out what
works and keep fine-tuning and tweaking that to achieve continual adaptation. Variety
and variation for the sake of variety will lead to mixed results. Have a very specific
objective for each workout. Everything in the workout should be in pursuit of
that objective. At the end of the workout evaluate – was the objective achieved?
if so why? If not why not? Adjust subsequent training accordingly. Always put
the workout in context of the whole training plan, never lose sight of the cumulative
effect of training. As I have said many times in this blog one workout cannot make an
athlete, but one workout can break an athlete.