The last 2 weeks have a bit of a battle with a bout of full body shutdown a week ago and grand final day tomorrow resulting in having to have to cram a lot more training into not many days. This week I've actually crammed 7 or 8 days into 5 so everyday I've lifted and sprinted without a drop in volume but some slight decreases in intensity where needed.
Week 3 I felt pretty quick during my sprints with week 4 not being as good but that's probably because of the higher training load and no rest days in week 4 as well as still recovering from sickness and a big night out late last week and weekend.
In the last 2 weeks there is a scattered ending to the various qualities I'm training. Hip thrusts are only a 30 day program so they'll finish early next week. I might cut the back squats program back to 35 days so I can retest late in the program during days 39 - 42.
The main focus is sprinting speed so all these directly related to sprinting will continue to be trained everyday such as foot/ankle complex, relaxation/stiffness, bounding and obviously sprinting.
Thinking about it in the car before, I've read up a fair bit of block training in the last 12 months or so. 1 article I read that I can't remember where it was from (I cut and paste stuff then read it weeks sometimes later!) prescribed blocks to last for 2 - 3 weeks max then you move to something else before swinging back again.
After the feeling of "peaking" during week 3 I will just about put this in stone going forward.
So it might look like this:
Block 1 x 2 Weeks
Performance Goal - Speed
Maintenance Goal - Strength
Training Frequency - 4 times a week
Session 1 - Speed
Session 2 - Speed
Session 3 - Strength
Session 4 - Speed
Block 2 x 2 weeks
Performance Goal 1 - Strength
Maintenance Goal - Speed
Training Frequency - 4 times a week
Session 1 - Strength
Session 2 - Strength
Session 3 - Speed
Session 4 - Strength
Repeat Block 1 and so on.
This is a very general look at block training but if go this route at some stage during the pre-season I'll definitely post it up.
And the Dockers by 9 points tomorrow.
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