Everyone that get's into remote coaching most likely does it because they enjoy the process of writing programming, but what happens when you have many programmes to write, and you might be up late on a Sunday churning out the final few programmes for the following week?

A good process is important if you want to enjoy programming because that process will help you stay organised and avoid situations where you may be in the crunch.

In this episode, we take a big picture look at how we write and organise programming and talk about some of the mistakes we have made along the way that have helped us refine our processes. We discuss balancing being organised, writing programming in advance, and being more reactive and responsive to training week to week. Also, we have another conversation on how and when to include variance in conditioning for beginners and advanced athletes. Check out the next part of our series on remote coaching to learn a bit more about how we write training for our athletes.

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Show Notes: * [1:50] Luke's attempt at making programming more efficient * [2:20] A bottoms-up approach to programming writing things week to week * [5:30] Long-term planning, athlete priorities and periodisation * [8:15] Being flexible and going with the athlete's rate of adaptation * [10:00] How much variation does Luke write in conditioning * [12:00] Using a fortnightly training split for conditioning * [13:30] Progression and variation with beginners * [14:50] Advancing athletes through more varied training * [16:15] Matching variance with an athlete's motivation and keeping them engaged * [21:00] How Todd plans out training progressions * [22:30] Maintaining long-term planning while being adaptable week to week * [24:45] Being self-aware of tendencies and biases with different programming styles * [28:50] Coming up with progressions week to week or in advance * [30:00] Including workouts that athletes excel at periodically * [32:00] Jon's a nice guy, apparently