Putting together your training plan
We choose to particpate in fitness and training for many different reasons. However, because it is a choice, it can be the first thing we sacrifice when we get busy. Planning and scheduling your fitness and training into your daily, weekly and monthly routines will assist you to keep on top of all of your committments.
A few simple steps to creating your training plan
- Make up a weekly sheet including all days of the week and times ranging from 6.00am - 9.00pm.
- Put into your weekly plan all your non negotiable commitments. These are commitments that you must attend or are compulsory, for example; work, university lectures or school.
- Put into your weekly plan all your high priority committments. These are committments that you should and will attend often, for example; study/assignment time and church.
- Now add in all your weekly sporting committments, for example; team trainings and games.
- Now include your personal and household committments, for example; housework/cleaning, leisure or recreation time, friends and family time and walking the dog.
- Now add in your individual fitness and netball training sessions, making adjustments should you need to. Look at your weekly plan observing any gaps that may be suitable times to include a training session. Take note of extra time in the mornings and use this time wisely by training at the very start of your day.
- Once you have your weekly or monthly training plan, now is the time to create your own traning programme here on the NetballSmart website www.netballsmart.co.nz.
- Modify the days and times in your training programme to suit your weekly plan.
- The last step is to keep yourself motivated and progress your training programme gradually to meet your goals.
Now what about your nutritional plan?
For those athletes that really want to succeed, include a nutritional plan into your regime. Create your nutritional plan here on the NetballSmart website. Making sure you:
- Include enough meals and healthy snacks for your daily activity and exercise.
- Monitor your eating times and pattens around your training session times, for example pre and post training snacks.
Some notes to think about:
- Make sure that you include one full days rest per week, to prevent overtraining.
- Alternate your training days between easy and hard days. Easy days are lower intensity and low to moderate volume. Hard days are high intensity and higher overall volume.
- The planned and prepared athlete is the successful athlete.
