Path to Peak Performance: Planning Your Year!

PEAK PERFORMANCE TAKES PLANNING!! Achieving your big running goals takes consistency and patience; training cycles span months, and long-term planning can be the key to consistent progress! Understanding HOW to plan your training year helps you make the best decisions possible when it comes to training plan selection, race goals, and staying consistent over the long term! In this masterclass, you will learn the basics of training periodization in order to plan out your training year with multiple training cycles effectively! YOU WILL LEARN: -What IS periodization? -About macrocycles, mesocycles, and microcycles -About progressive overload, linear periodization, and reverse periodization -About base, race. and recovery-focused training cycles -Basic recommendations on how long an individual training cycle should be, including the length of base, race, and post-race recovery (transition) training cycles -How to plan out your training year using multiple training cycles based on your specific racing schedule INCLUDES: 1-Hour Video with Coach Elisabeth PDF Slides to download Excel workbook for scheduling plus 2 example schedules (2 marathons in 12 months, and 3 half marathons in 9 months including two races 5 weeks apart) -- This class does not focus on intracycle periodization and you will not learn how to plan individual training phases or write individual training programs; this class focuses on the broad purposes of different training macrocycles to effectively map out up to 24 months of training at a time, but not the details on what exactly to do or how to specifically write individual training plans within those blocks of training.