Training
How do you know if your training plan is working? How do you know if you are over or undertraining? How do you know which aspects of your sport (strength, speed, endurance) are your strongest/weakest and thus how do you know which areas need specific focus for you? As you develop as an athlete, or through a season, how do you know when to shift the focus of your training?If you are a scientist, the answer is objective measurement. If you are an athlete, your answer should be no different. Unless you (or your current coach) specifically understand how to measure your progress, and adapt your training to maximize the benefit you are receiving from each workout, you are leaving some of your potential untapped.
Endurance Science develops a unique plan for each client, based on their goals and individual strengths and weaknesses. We follow a constant cycle of Evaluate-Modify Plan –Train/Adapt-Evaluate. Experience and individual attention is what transforms the science into an individual plan - nothing is left to chance.
- Evaluate – We start by assessing your athletic and nutritional history and experience. After that, extensive field testing (and sometimes laboratory evaluations such as VO2max and lactate testing) are conducted to gauge your current performance parameters
- Modify Plan – We then develop a unique plan for you, based on your goals (short and long term) and your test results
- Training and Adaptation – This is usually a 6 to 8 week period where your body develops new skills and strengths
- Evaluate – By repeating field tests we can see how you have progressed. Objectively. Your response to the Training and Adaption period allows us to further refine your plan and reap even greater benefits from the next cycle. Sometimes, the Evaluation is a race or goal event
