Subject: RE: Custom HIM vs other HIM plansAwesome that the oly custom plan worked for you. As far as the HIM plans, I generated 2 plans similar to what you created. Yes you are correct, the longer you make the plan, the more 'base' building you will be doing. Even with our questionnaire, we can't exactly pinpoint if an athlete can easily handle volume X starting at Week 1 of any training plan. So for longer plans, we just extend the 'base' period like you have seen. For intermediate plans, we do have 'build' phases before the race. This starts the plan out at a higher volume as it assumes you are more seasoned. If that is still not enough volume to start for a longer plan, make it a shorter plan. For our custom plan creator, going with a 16 week plan minimum, will create 1 base, 2 builds and then the taper/race part. Those plans will start off at even more volume. THEN what you do is create a sport focused plan or a maintenance plans for 10 weeks ahead of the 16 week plan - just making sure the volumes transition nicely. In a nutshell, yes, long plans will have more 'base' so starting volumes will be lower. Instead, create a shorter plan (though needs to be 16 weeks+, AND intermediate in level) and put a sport focused or maintenance plan in front of it to fill in the rest of the weeks. (custom-plan1.jpg)Attachments ---------------- custom-plan1.jpg (202KB - 41 downloads) |