Programming for Longevity
All the speed, power, strength and endurance in the world doesn’t matter if you are not consistently healthy enough to use it. Similarly, programming training correctly should progress athletes to consistently breaking personal records without breaking their bodies.
Here are 10 things to consider when programming…
Individual Specific Class Programming
When it comes time to do the WOD or MetCon, scaling and modifying up or down to find the appropriate level for each person is discussed and implemented. This is how each person finds what is best for them to get the intended stimulus of the workout and progress at their pace. This protocol can be carried over to the other sections of class.
You might think your programming already does this to a certain extent, but let’s take a closer look at some specific things within each of these training modalities…
Capability vs. Capacity
Knowing the difference and how to improve each of these will allow you to train harder, smarter.
Your capability involves the weights you can lift, your technique on your lifts, the skills you can do and the times of your short duration conditioning.
Your capacity looks at percentage based repetition ranges of weighted movements, technical efficiency under fatigue, repetition ranges of skills and pace based longer duration conditioning.
Examining the correlation between these two categories can provide great insight into your strengths and weaknesses at a much deeper level than just the surface level numbers. The goal is to have good balance between your strength and strength endurance. If there isn’t, then it usually means one or possibly more of these three things…