It’s this down period in which the body adapts to the work, enabling you to progress during the next block towards your ...

Professional cyclists use training periodisation to perform at their best for target races and manage fatigue through the year. Any keen amateur cyclist stands to gain as much as, if not more than, ...

Seiler, from the University of Agder and the Norwegian Olympic Federation, is best known for his work on polarised training, the idea that top endurance athletes tend to spend about 80 per cent of ...

Periodization training isn’t the only way to train efficiently, especially if you’re into strength training and want to build big arms. However, it’s one of the best ways to ensure that you can ...

It's a technique that was developed by Russian scientists in the 1940s, but those straight-from-a-Bond-film origins are no reason to be afraid of periodisation. At its most basic, periodisation just ...

Jose Mourinho revolutionised training in England thanks to the ideas of Vitor Frade and that legacy lives on this pre-season. With the help of one of Frade’s famous students in Carlos Carvalhal, Adam ...