This is an extremely important paper for the strength and conditioning professional. It provides the periodization model that is widely used in strength and conditioning and also provides many of the set/repetition...
In 1999, New Studies in Athletics published an article by Yuri Verkoshansky called “The End of Periodization of Training in Top-Class Sport.” Verkoshansky is a name that many strength and track/field coaches...
Over the course of several posts (http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4A , http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4F , http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4L , and http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4S ), we’ve covered taking a systematic approach to the training of both absolute beginners as well as national-caliber...
This post continues the workouts described in http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4L . Our athlete is preparing for the American Open and the previous workouts took us from April through July. This post will cover August...
In two previous posts (http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4A and http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4F ), we covered the training of a beginning Olympic lifter using the kind of exercise variety and progressive, systematic training that used to be employed....