Practical periodization, training load, and squad-programming guides for track & field coaches.
Your spreadsheet works and it is free. Here is the honest case for when a track-coaching app is worth leaving it, and when it is not: athlete delivery, video, copy-week, and reading your existing plan in.
Read →Paste your program text or upload up to 10 photos of a session, and Sprinting's AI parses it into structured exercises with reps, load, distance, rest, tempo, RPE, and effort.
Read →TrainingPeaks is endurance-first, built around TSS and the Performance Management Chart. Sprinting is track-first: subgroups, sprint session planning, and AI session parse.
Read →To manage many athletes in one system, organize by training groups and subgroups, periodize once at the squad level, then individualize loads where they matter. Here is how that works in practice.
Read →Sprint training load is governed by the nervous system, not total volume. Manage intensity, density, and recovery between maximal efforts, not weekly tonnage.
Read →A sprint session runs in three parts: a progressive warm-up, the high-intensity main work with full recoveries, and a structured cool-down. Here is how to build each.
Read →Moving from general prep to specific prep, volume falls, intensity and specificity rise, and rest lengthens. The week's shape stays; the numbers and the intent change.
Read →A free framework for structuring GPP, SPP, and Competition training weeks for sprinters, with reusable session templates you can adapt per athlete.
Read →Good periodization software for track and field lets you build a season in phases, program for subgroups, keep gym and track in one plan, and turn written sessions into structured data. Here are the buying criteria, with the science behind each.
Read →Gym apps model a workout as a list of lifts, but a track week is a periodized mix of speed, tempo, plyometrics, and weights across a squad split into subgroups. Here is where that gap shows, and how track-first software closes it.
Read →An honest comparison of Sprinting and TrainHeroic for sprint and track coaches: both handle gym work and periodization, so the real question is which one is built around how a track coach plans a season.
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