8 Week Training Report

PE Write up

My report is going to be discussing and showing, how I implemented an 8-week training programme, which was to help prepare and strengthen me for the tough guy and girl mud challenge. There were many methods of training that were used within my training programme, which specifically suited to help prepare me for the competition, these were: continuous, circuit, interval and some incline training. Throughout my report, I am going to be discussing the biophysical principles, functional anatomy, sports psychology and the motor learning theory, that are relating directly to my methods of training used in my 8week training programme. My training programme begun on Monday April 3rd and ended on Friday 26th May, as this day was the day

My goal for the tough guy and girl challenge is to be able to follow my training programme and see improvements in my physical and mental fitness ability, I will allow for me to see my goals being achieved by doing a fitness test before I start my programme and in between my 8week training programme. My goal also being that I wish to complete this 6km Tough guy and tough girl run in 1hour or less.

Week 2 goal: Push myself to not give up and make sure I completed each session to my full potential.

Week 5 goal: Make sure I am seeing improvements from the weeks ahead, and if not see what can be changed so I do see improvements and if I can see improvements how can I make sure I maintain it.

Week 7 goal: Make sure to finish this week properly and to rest well as, next week I will be completing the TGTG challenge.

Continuous

The training I did on this day was running along the river bank near my house, which is a distance of4.2km and I did this in 27minutes. On this day, my Resting Heart Rate was 70bpm, with my training heart rate working at 160bpm, which was meaning I was working in the aerobic system. I did many continuous runs throughout my training programme, with these being done at least 3 times each week. As I thought this training was a very important aspect in developing my aerobic, cardiovascular endurance and muscular endurance. Each week there was an increase in either my MHR or the time I was training for. For example, by week 7 of my training programme my continuous training had increased to a 55-60minute run and at 85-95% MHR, as this was allowing for me to become more prepared for the tough guy and girl challenge. It allowed for me to know how hard I will be working on the actual day and in the competition. It unfortunately doesn’t prepare me fully for the challenge by doing this continuous training, as there are also strength and speed sections needed to use as well but these were talked about and trained for in the other types of trainings. In week 7 of my training programme, Monday 15th May, my planned session was a continuous run for 55-60minutes, with a Maximum heart rate of 85-95% (showing that my time for my runs were increasing