Foldable Bikes Party: Setting goals, planning and periodisation

Tuesday, 18 October 2016

Setting goals, planning and periodisation

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This is a sponsored post in association with A1 Coaching.

If you give a man a bow and arrow and tell him: “Shoot”, his first question would probably be: “At what?”

When there’s no target, there is no purpose to shooting. He could just shoot the arrow anywhere, and wherever the arrow ends up would be wherever the arrow ends up: no target, no direction, and no purpose. He wouldn’t be a very good archer.

This is the ‘headless chicken’ phenomenon I began this series with: too many cyclists ‘just training’ with no target, no direction and no purpose.

On the other hand, if you gave the archer a target and challenged him to hit the bullseye, then everything changes. You have now given him something to aim at; something to challenge his skills against; something to measure his progress with, and something that gives purpose to his investment of effort, time and money.

All this by adding a simple target.