Session 1 · THRIVE: Improve
Train and track
- 8 minWarm-up from your own card.
- 27 minTraining session from your plan, with your partner keeping time or counting.
- 10 minProgress graph (Activity: 'Progress graph'): add today's results and look at the trend.
- 5 minAdjust: too easy (overload more) or too hard (step back)? Note one change.
Session 2 · THRIVE: Value
More than numbers
- 15 minRead about New Zealand athletes and coaches and what kept them going: Peter Snell's training, Marise Chamberlain training on grass tracks, Eliza McCartney's comebacks from injury.
- 15 minDiscuss: how much is too much? Signs of overload (soreness that won't go, tiredness, not enjoying it) and why rest matters.
- 15 minWrite your own 'why': what do you get out of being active beyond the result? Link to Te Whare Tapa Whā.
- 5 minShare one idea with your partner (not your results).
Getting started
Graph paper with the axes already drawn helps everyone start plotting straight away.
Stretch
Make a second graph of how you felt (1–10) each session. Does it match your results graph?
Checkpoint
Your log shows at least four sessions with data, a graph and one sensible change to your plan.
Activities for this week
- Progress graph: What does your data show about your training?
Useful this week
- Goals and making changes ↗ How to set goals that you can actually reach.
- Athletics New Zealand ↗ Events, clubs and competitions for young athletes.
- How much is too much when it comes to youth sport? ↗ Signs of overload and why rest and variety matter.
- Athletics: the golden era ↗ How Arthur Lydiard's training helped Peter Snell and Murray Halberg win Olympic gold.