http://www.mmatletismo.com.br/My_Homepage_Files/Publicações%20e%20Estudos/NSA%20-%20eng.pdf
if you check this and scroll down until you see the block periodization chart…
the vertical line, that has a number going upto 120…is that representing the intensity of the week? volume of the week? or both?
thanks…
That represents the “load” (volume+intensity) of the week. If you pay close attention, none of the weeks go over 100 anyway.
It’s interesting to note that he uses a reverse loading mesocycle, with the highest load microcycle being the first one, an approach suggested for power sports which take into account the “internal load”. I think this idea was pioneered by Bellotti and Donati.
The focus on quality of training seems to come from Tschiene, even though Moura doesn’t use the short pre-competitive transitory periods (something like a early taper) the german author suggests.
yes i was next going to ask about the reverse loading…i like that idea alot…
but, would that be seen as something like this…
week 5 - clean @ 100% max (say 6x1)
week 6 - clean @ 80% max (say 6x3)
i know the “load” includes everything in a training week…but im just using a lift for an example…
is that right?
i know the “load” includes everything in a training week
Exactly.
week 5 - clean @ 100% max (say 6x1)
week 6 - clean @ 80% max (say 6x3)
If you lower the intensity by 20% but increase the volume by 3x is the load lower?
The first microcycle could be 6x1@95 up to 100% and the second microcycle 5-6x1@92,5 up to 95%. You want the internal load to make it challenging just like the previous week, it’s just the external load which is lower.
Anyhow, it really should be viewed as the general loading approach as focusing on the strength aspect could be misleading.
yeah tru tru…
so overall sprint load drops 20%, bounding load drops 20%, lifting load drops, plyo contacts drop 20% ect ect right?
I wish I had the Bellotti’s book I presented to Charles Poliquin…
If you lower each component by the same percentage the overall load is decreased by more than that percentage, because there is a summation of fatigue by any additional component and a more than proportional decrease of fatigue by detracting each component. Also, the internal load “specific” to each component is different, so you can play with that, too.
The second week can see the use of the drop-off method as it really relates to whatever internal load the first week left in the athlete. I am not sure Bellotti wrote about this, though.
excuse me, could you tell me which book of Bellotti is? thanks
I don’t remember the title, it was 8 years ago.
I think it had a brown cover.
P.S. It was this one:
L’organizzazione dell’allenamento sportivo. Nuove frontiere.
Autore: Pasquale Bellotti, Alessandro Donati