Training Programs

Attached are your training and nutritional protocols for next week – please review each day’s notes and associated video links. Consistency is the key component of performance; however, I don’t want you to move your life around riding and cross training, it is imperative that we have your riding and cross training protocols moved around your life’s schedule (personally and professionally).

Intentional Success

Like every week in your training and riding protocols, there is a focus, purpose and physiological adaptation that we are looking to achieve.  When we complete a specific day of training that is essentially a building block to the next level of performance; however, it only occurs when the necessary recovery elements are in place: sleep and food.  Training with purpose and focus – consistently; eating and sleeping enough to allow the body to fully recover along with evaluating the symptoms associated with training too hard, too long and too often is the correct formula for intentional success.

Just like any piece of machinery, if one element of the system breaks down or becomes inefficient, the breakdown in the system cause stress throughout the entire system.  In the human body this break down will result in reduced levels of strength, speed and endurance – all things that you work so hard to develop only to have it undermined by the lack of sleep and/or food.  Each day is intended to create enough fatigue for adaptation without crossing that fine line into excessive fatigue.  We have discussed this as residual fatigue, the fatigue carried into the next day over a seven day training cycle.

Too much residual fatigue from the one, two, or even more days coming into a key session will result in a training session that is below the performance goals along with increasing the risk of injury or illness (the two key momentum killers when it comes to human performance. Remember, stay focused on Working Smart, Not Hard and Avoid Overtraining!

Yours in sport & health,

-Coach Robb, Coaches and Staff

Thought for the week:

“Energy and persistence can conquer any and all obstacles.”