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101: John Kiely on questioning conventions

Supporting Champions

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The Importance of Periodization

"I wasn't looking to disagree with anything. I was looking to agree, to actively agree," he says. "It offered me a way to mechanically aligning things, segregate things, organize things." But after a while it's just like, how can this be true? How can you possibly predict what direction training adaptation is to go and magnitude that adaptation?" He argues there are three hidden pillars of periodization: timeframe, direction and magnitude of training adaptation,. And do you predict an optimal sequence?

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