Continuing on with getting these internships going…

As I had mentioned, the possibility of coaching some of the women's is still a possiblity, now may have even expanded to some of the men's teams.  I got to meet one of the Associate ADs on the topic today with my professor, and she seems to be a really great person.  She was super acceptive of my interning with athletics, and will send out some feeler emails to the coaches at the university to see if any teams would be interested in my helping out with the strength and conditioning.  Keeping my fingers crossed!

Also, my professor gave me a few examples of annual training plans that will definiatly help out as I begin designing these athletes training schedules.  I have recently tried experimenting with some periodization and designing all the different cycles (micro, meso, macro) based on my own readings and information I have come across my studies, but having these hard copies in front of me definatly helps keeps things straight.

The first is a more traditional approach to the yearly training plan.  It includes the months, competitions, periodisation phases, the macrocycle goals, endurance, strength, flexibility, speed development, technique (skill) development, tactics (team play), psychology development (NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT), testing period, % of training time in conditioning skill or tactical, and training load and intensity.  I had a lot of these in mind, but some (flexibility, psychology, tactical skills) I never thought to plan out.  I guess I am going to have to get every finite detail I can put together for these athletes…

The second is general outline for the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association (SAAA).  My professor spent a good amount of time in Singapore at the national university Nanyang Technological University where he conducted research, taught, and changed some of the physical activity and testing standards for the country.  So, he has some history with the country.  Surprisingly, this was written by their coach (not sure which sport), who is German.  Part of the page is cutoff, but this looks incredibly simple for a European program (even if it is an outline).  That part of the world is a hotbed for sport and lifting programs/coaches/athletes.

So I have some material to go over to help me prepare for the programming of the athletes.  Getting closer to these internships!!