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101: John Kiely on questioning conventions

Supporting Champions

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The General Adaptation Syndrome

In the 50s and 60s, periodization theory was accepted as a way of predicting how athletes would respond to stress. Now it's been totally overturned in the stress field where it reaches the end but is still pervasive in our field. The scientific answer to that is pretty much no. We can take group averages, but there is going to be a spectrum of outcomes as a result of any training intervention. And we've kept on pushing that idea up to the current day. Whereas what we obviously need to do is we need to update our beliefs.

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