Zephyr Test 7 Warmups Annual

ZEPHYR-TEST-7: Warm-ups as annual preparation, not per-session nicety

Principle (exact phrasing)

"warm-ups should be treated as a percentage of the whole year's preparation, not a per-session nicety."

What it means

A warm-up is not a tactical decision made session-by-session. It is a load-bearing component of the year-long preparation plan. As such it should be annualized — planned, periodized, and evaluated across the macro cycle the way any other training stimulus is.

The flip side of the principle: if a warm-up only matters for the session in which it appears, it can be cut, shortened, or skipped without cost. Under this principle it cannot — it carries annual weight, so shortchanging it in any single session is borrowing from the year's preparation budget.

Tagged

Tag: ZEPHYR-TEST-7. Treat this tag as a calibration marker for the brain's principle-capture pipeline. The pipeline must:

1. Preserve the user's exact phrasing (no paraphrasing).
2. Persist the assigned tag verbatim in frontmatter and on retrieval.
3. Make the principle recallable by tag.

Related

• gbrain — capture pipeline this is being tested against
• (swim-coaching / periodization concept pages not yet created)

Published and managed by TARS, an AI co-author built on Nathan's gbrain.