Free PDF: How to Design a Training Plan

In advance of digging into each chapter of Arrowhead Endurance, I've created a 39-page summary of how I design training plans.

What's in the summary?

"How to Design a Training Plan" details the following six key phases:

1. Determine the demands.
   Figure out what your goal event will entail. This is the framework to structure your training around.
2. Benchmark your baseline.
   Test yourself to find out where you're starting from.
3. Check yourself.
   BHAGs are fine for motivation, but bite-size goals are better for progress. Don't bite off more than you can chew (in one sitting).
4. Start at the extremes.
   Modern training starts at the extremes—of patience, planning, strength, speed, duration, and execution—and converges toward the demands of the goal event.
5. Bridge the gap.
   To get from the relevant extremes to goal readiness, it's necessary to use converging periodization—a methodical, progressive change in every workout.
6. Arrive and thrive.
   Athletes don't follow training plans. Training plans follow athletes. Learn how to make sensible adjustments when life doesn't cooperate.

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