The Key to long term success with a race season or fitness program

PLANNING which includes

1. scheduling your workouts onto your calendar just as you would any other appointment 
2. in the case of  cross training, (resistance training with endurance sports or yoga, pilates,spinning etc)  creating a well balanced plan 
3. adjusting the program to suit your lifestyle and life's little challenges

Today's post is going to be short but sweet because I've got a run and gym workout to get to but, as I was pulling out my triathlon training plan to start next week and figuring out how to mesh it into a 1/2 marathon training plan into which I am already 6 weeks, it got me to thinking about some of the reasons people do not reach their fitness goals.....  lack of planning and structure and an imbalanced plan which does not work cohesively to produce the best results and leads to over training or injury.

For the past 5 years, I've seen runners and triathletes injured from ineffective plans which do not incorporate proper amounts of resistance training conducive to their goals or, worse, people doing something like weight watchers because they want to lose weight while training for a marathon leading to binging, injury and less than stellar results.

That having been said, here are copies of my marathon and tri plans from last year to give you an idea. Yes, all of these workouts are on my calendar. Every Sunday, I look at my weeks schedule, workouts which need to be completed and plan the best way to work it all in so as not to over train or be counter productive by doing something like a back and chest workout and planning my swim the next day when those muscles are going to be sore and fatigued. 

Here is the last 3 weeks of the tri training plan I use. As you can see, changes are made to include/incorporate my weight training and extra run training if I'm also training for a 1/2... Each Sunday, I look at the following week's work and commitment schedule ... as you can see, I improvise and adapt based on each week .. and I'm huge fan of highlighters

Here's my 1/2 training plan which, as you can see has lots of adjustments on it as well.


The moral to the story? A little planning goes a long way and, don't fret a missed or shortened workout. Fitness is a marathon not a sprint. It doesn't matter what you do for a week or two. What matters if you want to spend the rest of your life in the body of your dreams is CONSISTENCY

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In Health,

Dianne
www.mypersonalfitnesscoach.com