Periodization: General Concepts
Periodization is an interesting concept for a coach. It is enormously logical, it has its own language which makes its practitioners part of an elite club, it prepares athletes to peak, it...
program design
Sometimes We Don’t Want Bigger Muscles
A lot of people exercise to increase their muscle mass. Many periodization models call for there to be a period of time towards the beginning of the training year where an athlete...
Training Heavy Makes You Stronger, But Is It Periodization?
The “linear vs. nonlinear” periodization debate have been going on for a while in the strength and conditioning literature. Simplistically, a linear periodized program has a constant intensity/volume within a week. For...
We’re Not Training To Train
It’s easy to approach an athlete’s training in a myopic manner, in other words to view the athlete’s training from only our discipline. When we do this, we do a disservice to...
Training Must Adjust: Exercises
The exercises that are used in an athlete’s strength and conditioning program help to determine what kind of gains they will make from their training. When selecting exercises, it is easy to...