The point of the program is to open a medium of communication between coach and athlete, to establish a common language and common meanings, which allow the coach and athlete to hone in on the most effective means and methods of training for the athlete.
I’ve written before about the concepts of self-contained programming and bottoms-up management. What follows is an elucidation on one of the methods I use to make this happen.
I’ve never actually sat down and written it out – I follow tacit heuristics when coaching my clients. But, I’ve recently begun mentoring other coaches ( contact me if you’re interested! ), and thus have found cause to reverse engineer my own processes so that I can effectively articulate and teach them. Hence, I introduce: emergence cycles.