Spring Competitive week of Feb 5 – 11
This is week 2 of the Spring Competitive Training Program and is for those in warm climates with regular access to open water for paddling through remainder of the winter. This week sees a second consecutive hard week with the same structure as last week and incremental increases in load. Additionally, this week we start a new phase of strength work focused on endurance strength and the circuit shifts to more of a power focus with heavier weight and only 20 reps (please see page 2 for details). Please continue to pay attention to proper rest and nutrition between workouts to ensure that the quality of your work remains high and the training stimulus results in gains.
Please continue to focus on technique in your paddling and don’t compromise technique to grind out hard work. You should gather video if you have the chance and self-analyze it, looking for errors and using the resources on the website to help determine corrections. If you need help with this process, please don’t hesitate to ask. When paddling, don’t be afraid to stop if you feel your motion, connection or rhythm aren’t optimal, then refocus and start again. Your objective is still to maximize the number of good strokes you are taking and minimize the number of inferior strokes you take. In this way you will consolidate sound technical movement patterns which will carry you through the entire season.
Please contact me in the program discussion if you have questions or need guidance with the rearranging the order of the workouts. Also, if you are racing an important event in the coming weeks you should contact me in the coach’s convos for the customized work you will need.
Have a great week!
Larry
