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Extreme Training: Periodization Extreme Style
January 31st, 2010categories: Extreme Training, Mental Muscle, Muscle Building
The idea of intentionally backing off from training is hard for many dedicated athletes to do.
Even if it is part of a part of a larger plan, such as Periodization. Periodization is the training theory which says you should schedule your long term training into periods. For example, six weeks of mass training followed by six weeks of strength training followed by three weeks of fat loss training followed by six weeks of mixed training. You get the picture.
Now, many people have had great results using periods of training. The problem comes in when you are supposed to be in a losing weight and building endurance, but you feel like training for mass, not just because you “feel” like it in terms of your mental focus, but because you are making great gains and don’t want to stall progress by switching things up just because your pre-written plan says that’s what it’s time to do.
As an advocate of switching things, you might think we at the Extreme Training Zone would rarely recommend sticking to a program. Actually, we strongly believe that you should stick to what works for as long as it works. When a program stops working, when the results start to slide, or even reverse, it’s time for extreme measures. Extreme Training.
Incorporating the proven methods of Periodization into Extreme Training is as simple as listening to your body and mind for feedback. If you are dreading a certain kind of workout, take some time and figure out what the problem is, before you get burned out on something that is actually very productive. Make the routine more intense, but shorter. Less intense, but longer. Do something else for a while and then go back fresh.
When you are on a roll, stay on it. Do everything you can to keep the gains coming and motivation high.
If something bad happens, you get a cold, or start to accumulate tendon pain, take that as a sign to back-off. This is the natural way of integrating Periodization into your Extreme Training. Listening to your Body. In other words, don’t plan to take off for no reason. Take off, take it easy, do what is necessary to rebuild and recharge.
Then, when you are fresh again, you will return with a burning desire to train that will convince you that
What to strike first?
Periodization works. Only in this case, you dictate the periods, not a schedule that sounded good at three in the morning six months ago.
Does this mean long term planning is not important? Far from it.
Now that we are far enough away from January 1, and the infamous resolutions are starting to settle back down to Earth… Stay tuned for a post on How to Create a Long Term Plan you will Grow With.
Yours in Extreme Training!
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