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Periodization

One basic issue came into my mind yesterday. During the last weekend I visited the Team Finlands training-camp in Vierumäki. On Monday I ran threshold-test to see how my aerobic and anaerobic systems are working. The results were pretty ugly - unlike my own feelings and tests have previously indicated.…
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The Wikipedia-pages contain many kind of information and what comes to this issue - it is useful to all readers. Read the article and find the basic rules of periodization. The microcycle, mesocycle and the macrocycle are fine and reasonable terms to describe periodization and particularly the planning of it. BUT as you see try to see the forest without the trees, you also have to see the whole. Not just the great plan, training hours and kilometres that youve ran. Periodization is just a great plan, and hardly ever functions in real life. After the text you will find…

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