#138 - Progression Isn't Needed to Progress

Legion Strength & Conditioning Podcast

There comes a stage in training where week-to-week progress grinds to a halt, and it is often met with feeling like you have regressed or are stuck. You can even stretch this timeline out, and it might feel like noticeable progress doesn't happen for months. This can be a difficult realisation to overcome, and it is a constant battle that challenges many athletes and coaches.

But progress doesn't have to be measured by adding more weight to the bar or knocking off seconds on your interval split times. A lot of CrossFit is about maintaining your abilities under more duress and fatigue.

In this episode, we discuss some other, more discreet ways to measure progress and see if an athlete is improving. We talk about how this applies to different training modalities and how we can harness it to help motivate athletes, along with some other thoughts and ideas about programming.

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Show Notes:

• [2:30] The goal of training is to create adaptation
• [4:30] Alternative and discreet measures of progress
• [6:00] Progress happens under the curve
• [8:45] Athlete confidence or progress?
• [10:00] Tricking athletes with different styles of programming
• [11:30] Accumulating work as a form of improvement
• [13:30] Making your performance more durable
• [14:45] Durability of gymnastics skills
• [17:00] Being flexible with gymnastics programming