Rest weeks with vertical integration

[Charlie_Francis]

@Snigelmannen

The vertical integration slide show a cycle of 12 weeks of length, and it has been said that recovery is typically done in a 3+1 format. However, this is not really reflected in this slide, or in many other places (like the 400m preparation downloads). Are you supposed to factor these in, in effect prolonging the cycles with 25% or just reduce the weeks in the template where appropriate and stay with their length?

It really depends on athlete level and point in the season (SPP more important than GPP). the higher the performance standard, the more you need to factor in the recovery weeks.