16- Testers, Pacing, Splitting Sessions, Top 5 Coaching Principles & More |Ask Max El-Hag | Episode 2

Below are all the questions from a September 5, 2017 IG post answered "rapid fire" style by Max El-Hag in part 2 of this 5 part series.

00:25 - How do you split the sessions for a competitive athlete and how much that change in the competitive season?

01:10 - Are you accepting interns/apprenticeship at TTT? Been following all the media and would love to be apart of it all

01:39 - Is the mentor ship program still on the table in your developmental programs?

02:12 - When are you going to recruit athletes to the gym, (from the video you had around the games)

02:42 - How do you go about programming "testers"? Or measure an athletes progress in their capacity to perform certain movements or domains?What formats do you use, are they interval repeats, death by.., etc. Is the format the same every time you test an athlete?

04:34 - Have you picked up any new elite athletes since the Games?

06:05 - Have you come to a conclusion as to whether you think it's better to always pace workouts or to sometimes front load the work in a workout?

06:40 - Do you think crossfitters have reached their peak weightlifting numbers? Or will they eventually start to approach the numbers that olympic weightlifters hit?

07:26 - Let's say you had an 18 year old come to you who said I want to go to/win the crossfit games. S/he has an athletic background in some sort of sport at a high level, understands the commitment, has the drive to do it etc but has never done any (or very little) strength and conditioning work. In the most ideal situation how would you plan for this athlete to succeed? How many years of prehab, technique focus, mono structural work would you think to put in before crossfit sport specific work and how many years would you aim the program around to accomplish that goal

09:09 - The 3 most important things a coach should provide to his athletes?

10:09 - do you see crossfit backing off the intensity level a bit. and putting some focus on "practice". and if not do you think it should or stay with what made it what it is today?

11:39 - Given that you have openly expressed your love for writing in your blog, have you ever thought of writing a handbook on CF training? Is that even possible given the current state of knowledge on the sport or CF is evolving so fast that it will never allow for a comprehensive study?

12:50 - Really enjoyed the video from your YouTube channel on the Regional Events. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Games Events and what was your approach with both Travis (Trevor) and Noah

15:11 - When you decide to start a remote coaching program what do you expect from the athletes?

16:43 - When, if ever will you guys be releasing anything with affiliate programming?

18:34 - What are the top 5 training "principles" all athletes and coaches should follow? And, which one is most often overlooked?

22:10 - How do you count the volume (weekly / month etc ...) of a strength training, but with a metcon for the energy system that has weights, at the end of the cycle do you count this volume together? (i.e. WB in metcon, do you count UB push 50x, same as bench press?) How do you deal with this volume coming from Metcon? I ask because it ends up finding a very large variable, which can interfere with your strength training or energy system, as well as many others. (if possible details rsrsrs) 2nd - How much volume do you decide to start? 70% of test results, how much does it increase from week-week? (I know it depends on the athlete but ..)