An Intro to Daily Undulating Periodization
So you’ve been hitting the gym for a few years, you’ve had some fantastic results at times, but you feel like your progress has stalled.
So you’ve been hitting the gym for a few years, you’ve had some fantastic results at times, but you feel like your progress has stalled.
An important part of any trainee’s development is managing the level of exertion or stress to apply in programming workouts while maximizing the period of
Intensity and volume are the most popular variables in periodization. Exercise selection, however, can play a crucial role in determining how these variables actually affect
Every coach worth mettle uses some form of periodization, which is a big word for planning variations in an athlete’s training over a given portion
What if I told you all the “successful” periodisation models we believe in are driven by tradition rather than evidence? Athletes and trainers have sleepwalked
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The “no pain, no gain” mantra of sport and performance is holding less credence than it used to. This is good news, because the more
Give two athletes of the same sport the same task. One athlete may be able to repeat this task again and again without issue. The
What’s the best periodization method for increasing strength? There are a lot of ways to answer that question. A recent a study in the Journal
Periodization, the planned distribution of work during exercise, has been around for decades, but few gym-goers actually use it. In a recent Journal of Strength
“We trained hard – but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn
My first introduction to well thought out periodization was from Tudor Bompa’s book Theory and Methodology of Training. I still have my copy, which is
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