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    acc dev followed by SE

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        • Participant
          Dave Hegland on October 10, 2004 at 3:35 am #9887

          Guys,

          Would you ever (in GPP) place SE work on the day after acc dev? I’m thinking it may be too high of a CNS demand on consecutive days.

          I’m trying to set up a very general GPP microcycle (collegiates, M&W). So far I’ve got:

          Monday: Acc Dev (in the form of hills)

          Tuesday: Tempo running

          Wednesday: Active recovery, probably low intensity core/med ball/G.S. activities.

          Thursday: Acc Dev (in the form of 20m/30m/40m)

          Friday: Here’s the problem — Would it be acceptable to place max speed/SE here (I’m thinking 60m/80m, etc.). If not, I’ll have to bump it to the weekend.

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on October 10, 2004 at 4:07 am #33914

          I wouldn’t recommend doing speed endurance and probably not even true max velocity work during GPP. If you had your heart set on doing it though, I definitely wouldn’t do it on consecutive days unless your volumes were extremely low.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Participant
          Kebba Tolbert on October 10, 2004 at 8:58 am #33915

          hmmm…. i think some of this is facility and weather dependant…. when i was in cold place (Iowa, Illinois) we used to bang away at max velocity values very early in the year. and then as weather got colder we would start to hit acc very hard…..

        • Participant
          Kebba Tolbert on October 10, 2004 at 9:00 am #33916

          i could also see using some form of speed endurance with 400/400H/800 athletes in the fall…. i used to do 2-5 sets of 30-60-90 in the fall with the long sprinters instead of a 2nd max velocity/acc day.

        • Participant
          Dave Hegland on October 10, 2004 at 12:50 pm #33917

          Interesting. So you wouldn’t go beyond acc dev in GPP? No 60s, etc? While I’m a bit surprised, it would make my training week easier to plan 🙂

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on October 11, 2004 at 6:38 am #33918

          Duck-
          If given the choice, I wouldn’t do true Vmax until end of GPP / beginning of SPP. SE would come even later after Vmax work had been done.

          KT-
          I’m assuming you set it up like that because you think it’s best to do MaxV work while you can (when the weather is still warm) and saving acc. dev for when you were forced to move inside. What were your thoughts on the effectiveness of the type of program you mentioned above.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Participant
          Kebba Tolbert on August 26, 2006 at 10:54 pm #33919

          KT-
          I'm assuming you set it up like that because you think it's best to do MaxV work while you can (when the weather is still warm) and saving acc. dev for when you were forced to move inside. What were your thoughts on the effectiveness of the type of program you mentioned above.

          yeah, we didn't have an indoor space so we got after maxV pretty hard while we could (with fairly good results).

          As for speed endurance/special endurance, we wouldn't do it much in prep except as test (somewhere bte 250-500m depending on event).

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