Round 1, HRV Wrap Up and In-Season Training

How good is it when footy comes back!

Round 1 is here and with the mighty Swans coming a huuuggge win against a dodgy Collingwood team, it's time to shift our focus to how we train during the season.

Your in-season training model should start once your practice matches start as recovery is probably at it's premium from the exposure to game like intensity.

If you're not allowing adequate recovery for your players then some of then could be well on their way to fatigue-ville before round 1 even gets here.

This means that you shouldn't still be be,ting out endurance time trials and 400m sprints every 30secs (which makes little sense at anytime!)

Over the last month I've been going on about heart rate variability and player wellness which is crucial to determine player fatigue levels which in turn lets you know how you should be training them during them during the week.

Here's a list of those posts:

http://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/my-personal-story-of-overtraining-and.html

http://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/player-monitoring-is-everywhere-these.html

http://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/player-monitoring-system-now-available.html

http://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/my-own-heart-rate-variability-in-action.html

http://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/training-with-low-heart-rate-variability.html

http://aussierulestraining.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/what-i-do-with-your-player-monitioring.html

I'm still standing by knowing where you;re at from a fatigue level point of view is still more important then what training you do which is why I covered it all before diving into actual in-season training stuff.

In the next couple of weeks I'll be covering several in-season training topics such as:

• Training Residuals
• General to Specific Exercise Progressions
• High / Low Training System
• Individualising Energy Systems Work
• Recovery

and a few other bits and pieces to get you thinking in the right frame of mind. 

I'm just gonna add that I set some speed records today recording a 1.15sec fly 10m sprint time (my best ever) that included my best fly 5m time (.46secs). I also have a sprint start I call a 'footy start' basically because I'm a full forward so most leads come off a little lateral shuffle sort of thing into a straight lead which I also do over 10m where I recorded another all time best of 1.58secs.

It's amazing what a couple of days of no stress (work, time constraints etc) can do for performance readiness.

I'll be back tomorrow with our first piece on in-season training.