11ExploringEmbodyingSession

“Don’t do anything you can’t measure. Make every session, that, you do count – even your recovery sessions. Never do sessions just as ‘fillers’.” Coe explains, adamantly.

Too often people waste a coach's time, plans and programmes adding extra sessions, or using sessions as ‘fillers’.

A programme isn’t just a calendar to remind one of the activities, it is the template, the measuring stick for seeing progress and decline.

Everything comes from that programme. If you succeed, we look at what element in the programmes achieved that. If you fail, we look at what in the programme went wrong. Once 'you the athlete' starts adding and taking-out elements, the whole measure becomes irrelevant.

Embodying Sessions are Vorsprung's way of slowing down, re-grouping, assessing progress and understanding one's self.

Whether it is a run or cycle or rowing or swimming or walking, they should be performed solo. They are meditative. It is time for the individual to visualise the other sessions and enact on them within and then without oneself.

In running, steps-per-minute, et al, are going to vary for each individual (just as each individual gets given one's own mantra from their guru in yoga). So, it is important to do embodying sessions solo to 'get in-touch' with all that has been taught on the other days.

Remember, Vorsprung doesn't directly teach sports specifics. So, the various other sessions aren't about the 'efforts', they are about learning how to practice Vorsprung within a certain discipline (whether the discipline is running, cycling, swimming, rowing, dance or walking).

11. Exploring: Embodying Session