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 ...

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

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 ...

Tactical periodisation is a method of training used by professional sports teams which incorporates tactical work into every aspect of training. It rejects the traditional idea of training each aspect ...

The first wave of Liverpool’s senior players will arrive at the training ground on Friday as their 2024-25 pre-season — and the club’s new era — begins in earnest. For the past eight years, squad ...