The Yes To Strength

PLANNING and PROGRAMMING FORMS:

How to achieve “Surgical Precision” in your program design.

Dear Strength Coach or Personal Trainer,

“What are we doing today? Legs?”

This little “conversation” between a trainer and a client really happened and was relayed to me by a reliable colleague. What is interesting about the conversation was that the question was posed by THE TRAINER, not the athlete/client.

This strength coach/personal trainer did not have a plan!

This strength coach/personal trainer was at, or close to the bottom of our 4 developmental phases toward “maturity” with planning and programming forms:

Phase 1: I don’t know that I need to create a long-term training plan.

Phase 2: I know that I need to create a long-term training plan, but I have no idea about how to do it.

Phase 3: I work with some form of a long-term training plan, but it doesn’t feel “quite right,” “something is missing” and the result is not the way I want it.

Phase 4: I have a system and HIGHLY EFFECTIVE forms to create a long-term training plan that gives me  “surgical precision" in my program design.

The Yes To Strength Planning and Programming Forms will take you from phase 2 or phase 3 to phase 4 and help you create surgical precision in your program design.

How do I know?

Inspired by Tudor Bompa's – sometimes credited for applying the term periodization to sports training - books, I started at phase 2 in the early and mid nineties and it took me about 15 years of refinement to get to phase 4.

Keep reading, if you want to shave 15 years off your learning curve.

“Pop quiz, Hotshot!"

Remember the movie “Speed”?

Dennis Hopper’s character, whenever he had a challenge for  Keanu Reeves' character, would say, “Pop quiz, Hotshot!"  He would then pose his question and ask, "What do you do?"

What do you do?

An athlete has hired you to create a strength and conditioning program to prepare him/her for the next season. What do you do?

A fitness client has hired you to help him/her gain 15 pounds of muscle and lose 20 pounds of fat in 10 weeks. What do you do?

If you are in phase 2 or beyond, my guess is that you will start putting together some kind of  written plan.

The Yes To Strength Planning and Programming Forms can help you create a written plan that allows for “surgical precision” in your program design. Here is what you get:

• The Macro Cycle Plan – Map out your long-term plan.
• Strength and Jump/Throw Training Program Template – only template I have ever seen that allows for different training methods for different exercises.
• Energy Systems Training Program Template
• Warm Up and Cool Down Programs Template
• Weekly plan – Communicate to your athletes/clients when to perform which workouts.

(The last four “items” are the forms you can give to your athletes or clients.)

Surgical Precision AND Ultimate Flexibility

The forms are created on 5 different excel worksheets that you download to your computer and use again and again. Beside each row or column, the comment box  function is used (look for the small red triangle) to explain how to fill out that particular row.

Yes, there are more advanced software programs available on the market. However, one piece of software rarely covers all components of training (strength, jump/throw, energy systems plus warm up and cool down). Furthermore, the more advanced software typically limits you, for example, on the number of exercises you can use or the particular way to write up sets and reps. The excel sheets are the solution with the ultimate flexibility. You can even add your own rows if that fits in with how you are working!

Your investment, if you want these sheets on your computer is $29 CAD and does not reflect the number of sheets/pages of this product (5).

The value of $29 CAD for The Yes To Strength Planning and Programming Forms was chosen to reflect what using these sheets have done for me, in terms of improving my program design skills and allowing me to be significantly compensated for the training programs I create.

I know that the Yes To Strength Planning and Programming Forms can do the same for you.

To your Success,
Karsten Jensen