1507 Objectives

This cycle will last through the beginning of January.  It is an accumulation cycle for both groups.

Fitness

• Build aerobic endurance through cyclic and mixed modal pieces.  
• Develop structural strength through high volume and increased time under tension. 
• Use time block time management strategies while practicing run technique work, basic tumbling and ukemi (breakfalls).  The tumbling is used to increase kinesthetic awareness (ability to know where you are in space) while the breakfall practice facilitates the likelihood of better outcomes when you fall.

Performance

• Build aerobic endurance and deepen the aerobic base in cyclic and mixed modal pieces. We will sharpen in January/February.
• Increase upper body strength and resiliency with a focus on SASS (straight arm scapular strength) and BASS (bent arm scapular strength).  Pieces will focus on the development of the strict muscle-up,  front lever and planche. 
• Develop upper body gymnastics muscular endurance.
• Develop lower body positional strength and functional hypertrophy (incidentally, of course) to facilitate more lower body muscular "horsepower" in future cycles.  High volume/time under tension techniques will be used.
• Refine running technique. 

Both groups will explore some loaded progressive stretching techniques.