I see so much ”stuff” out there now that just makes the
athlete tired. Just making a workout hard on an exercise an ass kicker does not
make it a productive workout or a beneficial exercise. Each exercise should be
carefully chosen to fit into the overall program. Each training session needs
to be strategically placed in the context of the previous workout and subsequent
workouts, in other words as part of an overall plan of development to meet the athletes’
needs. Focus on the need to do activities that relate to sport, the positional/event demands and above all meet the needs of the individual
athlete.
If you are logging onto the Internet each day and downloading the workout of
the day, you are not meeting the above criteria.
It is just work, just training, in all probability it is hard, just like yesterday
and the day before and the day before that, all hard. Step back and take a
close look at what you are doing. In all probability you are probably just
finding different ways to make your athletes tired, but are you really making
them better? Instead use good training principles, use your creativity and make
the training challenging and appropriate for the sport you are preparing for.
Make sure you have a rhythm of a hard workout followed by easier workout to
insure adaptation, do not look for quick fixes or rapid results, good training
takes time.