Use your intuition and "wing it"

Many of you may be using our Training Wizard to help plan your programme. The Training Wizard enables you to plan your training around the rest of your life. Flexibility is the key. Matt Fitzgerald, the author of RUN The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel, spoke to us about the pros and cons of following rigid training plans.

He believes that training plans are very useful for anyone who is a novice to running as, by following a training plan you will learn the basic ingredients to put into the recipe that will make your goals achievable. However, as you become more experienced you should try "winging it", using your intuition and tailoring your training more to suit your needs. The Training Wizard allows you to "wing it" within a structure. Matt likened this to music. If an orchestral ensemble play classical music the structure is quite rigid. If they were to play a jazz piece the structure would still need to be there but there would be room to ad lib, improvise or play with the timing slightly. We should embrace the jazz but respect the classical!