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Exercise science

Divide the training year into phases to peak on time

In exercise science, periodization is the deliberate division of a training programme into phases and cycles, macrocycles, mesocycles, and microcycles, that vary volume, intensity, and emphasis over time so that fitness is built, consolidated, and brought to a peak for competition while fatigue and injury are managed. Bompa and Haff's Periodization: Theory and methodology of training is the standard synthesis of the models, from classical linear progressions to block and undulating schemes. The referent is a structured time-plan for athletic adaptation, measured in cycles and planned loads, and it is a different construct from the historian's carving of the past into eras despite sharing the idea of dividing time into periods.[1]

Unit
The sequence and length of training phases across a competitive cycle
Recovery means
Recovery is scheduled into the plan: unloading or restoration phases follow heavier blocks to allow adaptation before the next load
Measured by
Evaluated by the planned distribution of load across cycles and by whether performance peaks at the targeted competition

Historiography

Carving the continuous past into named eras

In historiography, periodization is the practice of dividing the continuous flow of the past into bounded, named periods, such as antiquity, the Middle Ages, or the Renaissance, in order to make history intelligible, while recognising that the boundaries are interpretive constructions that shape what counts as change. Le Goff's Must we divide history into periods? examines how such divisions, especially the idea of the Middle Ages, were built and what they conceal and reveal. The referent is a scheme of temporal boundaries imposed on history and the arguments over them, a wholly different construct from an athlete's planned training phases though both partition time.[2]

Unit
Not applicable: a scheme of period boundaries, argued rather than measured
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Not measured; assessed by historiographical argument over where period boundaries fall and what they illuminate or distort

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References

  1. Bompa, T. O., & Haff, G. G. (2009). Periodization: Theory and methodology of training (5th ed.). Human Kinetics. ISBN 9780736074834
  2. Le Goff, J. (2015). Must we divide history into periods? (M. B. DeBevoise, Trans.). Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231173001

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