I’m interested to see anyone’s annual periodisation plan and the differences if any between coaches.
Do most of you aim to peak once, twice, three times a year?
Everyone on this forum obviously agrees the CFTS is a top way to train but what are your interpretations of ‘the man’s methods’ when it actually comes down to mapping out how you are going to get from point A at the beginning of the season to point B at the end.
Jules, I’m training for the football combines and my plan isn’t for the whole year (it just take me out to June), but you can see my plan and my progress at:
I have endeavoured to follow Charlie’s philosophy as closely as possible while allowing for the differences in both the sport that I’m training for and the time periods that I have to work with.
Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Charlie´s ideas have been proven. It may be interesting to look at this article. Basically it is a brief discussion of planning from the western and eastern standpoints.
A quick review of periodization philosophies is available at:
this may be a dumb question, but if you started training in january and wanted to be as fast as you could be in december, would you want a double or a triple periodization schedule?