Periodisation and Long Term Programming for Sports and Fitness
This short (approx 2 hours) course is designed to help coaches with an understanding of basic programming to design programs from 1 - 4 years in length for long term progress.
The Benefits of Periodisation
Linear V Undulating Periodisation
Macrocycle
Test your learning
Mesocycles: Conditioning
Mesocycles : Conditioning
Mesocycles:Preparation
Mesocycle Preparation Quiz
Mesocycles: Technical / Competition Phase
Mesocycles: Technical
Andy is the worlds most experienced coach educator having trained 20,000 coaches to date over a 30 year career.
His boxing fitness program Boxercise is present in over 50 countries and has over 5 million participants. He was personally selected by the late Muhammad Ali to design a training regime to bear 'The Greatests' name.'
He is a licensed professional boxing coach with the British Board of Boxing Control and licensed sprints coach and pole vault coach with British Athletics. He has a BSc. (Hons) in Sports Science (2:1) from Brunel University. He is a graduate of Oxford University in Astrophysics (Cosmology).
Included in a 21 year international athletics career he made the 60 metre sprint semi final of the World Masters Championships in 2004. He has competed in the Pole Vault in two World Masters Championships and is a five time national champion.
He has been coaching since 1985 and has coached 4 Olympic Champions (with 5 Olympic Golds) 23 World Champs 17 European Champs 5 Commonwealth Champs In 4 different sports.
Currently he coaches at North Devon Athletics Club and Mowsley Boxing Club.