Quiz Lesson: Mapping Out a Strategy

Strategies are long-term overall plans to overcome restrictions to success, whereas tactics are methods of dealing with more immediate problems.

Grooming is a prioritized order that gradually prepares one for the next step, then the next, and then the next.

The incremental time slots in which one trains for progress is referred to as a timeline for training period and the overall process of going through these training periods is called periodization.

Timelines are important in that they delineate sections of time in which certain goals are to be accomplished.

The judo athlete inventory process is a good place to start to take an inventory of areas that need to be improved upon in order to be competitive.

In the first two month period, one should create a list of things to do and also make arrangements to have videos taken of your workout sessions as well as your tournament matches.

In the second two month period list of things to do, during your randori practice you should make concerted effort to deal with some of your recommendations.

Third two month period list of things to do: Videos of practice sessions and tournaments. Determine where your athlete made improvements and where you need to suggest improvements.

Fourth two month period list of things to do: For six months you have gradually increased your athletes bodies ability to withstand the stresses of sustaining training schedule necessary to compete at the event.

By now they should be able to go through an hour workout session with five or six high-level competitors with little or no rest between practice sessions, executing a technique at least every 30 seconds with appreciable success.

Fifth two month period list of things to do: For elite athletes it is important to maintain excellence in the physiological domain. As their technical skills improve they feel less of a need to rely on their aerobic/anaerobic conditioning.

Tournament play is a testing ground for the work your athlete has been doing.

Tapering involves gradually lowering the intensity of your workouts perhaps a week or two prior to your target event.