Stop Following Others, Start Following Yourself
Short answer
Copying another athlete's routine ignores the differences in body, sport, training age and life circumstances that made that routine work for them. Take the underlying principles — progressive overload, consistency, recovery — and build a plan around your own constraints and competition calendar.
Why copied plans fail
An elite athlete's programme assumes their training history, recovery capacity and schedule. Applied to someone without those, it usually produces injury or burnout rather than their results.
What transfers is the principle. What does not transfer is the specific volume, intensity and timing.
Building your own
Start from your competition calendar and work backwards. Then apply the general principles at a level you can actually recover from.
Keep enough record to know what is working for you specifically, because that record is the only thing that can tell you.
Frequently asked
Should I follow a professional athlete's training programme?
Learn from the structure, but do not copy the volume. Their programme assumes years of accumulated training capacity.
How do I know what works for me?
Track your sessions and how you respond. Sustained personal data beats any generic template.
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