Fill In The Gaps
A Simple Approach To Getting Better
Wrapped up the first four weeks of my 2024/2025 season last Sunday.
As you head into Fall/Winter…
Print out your weekly volume for the last 12 months.
Calculate the average (it’s the dotted line above).
Fill in the gaps
In Fall/Winter, we don’t need to “go big.”
We simply need to fill in the gaps from this time last year.
Go Big When It Matters
A fun snapshot from my training camp in Tucson.
For Top Amateurs training for Ironman, Ray’s week (below) is where this strategy can take you.
It wasn’t easy for me to turn up at camp and do half of what the best guys were doing.
However, if I want to execute my “fill in the gaps” strategy then I need to hold back (when it doesn’t matter).
Coiling The Spring
Keep the easy days easy. I schedule 175 easy days a year. This keeps my life in order and enhances my adaptation from training stress.
Ensure you have the mojo to push when it most benefits race performance => 2 to 7 weeks out from our A-Event. It takes uncommon patience to get to this window without self-sabotage AND with the mojo to do work that lifts race-specific performance. You can see Ray’s patience in the weeks that lead up to his peak-week camp.
These simple tools will keep you from coming up with a “good idea” that screws up your consistency.
Volume is a good explanation.