Periodisation is the short, medium and long-term planning of performance and health and fitness-based programming and is a cornerstone of evidence-based coaching. However, the periodisation of training is a vast subject that can often seem overwhelming and complex for practitioners in practice. Therefore, the aim of this short course is provide performance coaches with a greater understanding of effective periodisation and programming, introducing coaches to key periodisation principles and the many different forms of periodisation including linear, modified linear, undulating and block periodisation, before providing clear guidance on the implementation of periodisation in practice.
Aims and objectives:
- Describe Hans Selyes GAS principle and the relationship between exercise stress and homeostasis.
- Explain the different phases of periodisation and macro-cycle, meso-cycle and micro-cycle training blocks.
- Describe training volume, intensity, frequency, volume of load and other key periodisation terminology.
- Describe the concept of transfer of training effects.
- Describe linear and modified linear periodisation and its applications in practice.
- Describe undulating periodisation and it applications in practice.
- Explain block periodisation and its application in practice.
- Prepare and design effective training micro-cycles and individual performance programmes.
Author Bio
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Thomas Stringwell
Thomas Stringwell is the founder of Your Gym Sports Performance Ltd, an education provider that specialises within the fields of strength and conditioning and sports science. He’s an accredited strength and conditioning coach with the UKSCA and currently provides performance consultancy services across a range of sports including rugby union, rugby league, soccer, handball, boxing, mixed martial arts, BMX supercross, strength sports and Youth Athletic Development.
He holds an MSc in Sports Biomechanics (Loughborough University), a 1st class honours degree in Sport and Exercise Science (Manchester Metropolitan University) and a Certificate in Education teaching degree (Huddersfield University), with future ambitions of completing a PhD within the field of motor learning, constraints-based learning and non-linear pedagogy.
He has a real passion for education and coach development, having both coached and taught within the fields of strength and conditioning and health and fitness for over a decade. He’s a lifelong strength sport enthusiast, having competed both in Olympic Weightlifting and Powerlifting at a national level, with a genuine drive to support and educate coaches throughout our industry.