Review: Training for Power and Strength in Speed

[Charlie_Francis]

@NickP

With regards to the Optimal Performance Window, a 7 week max strength program would lead to a supercompensation at around weeks 10-15. How about in the 3rd training block, which lasts only 5 weeks, and where only a 3 week max strength period is possible? What would the week range of the window be? Thanks

The differential there is that the 3 weeks strength block is, in part, necessarily short because the CNS demand of the speed work is so high that intensification is completed in that short period, making the peak sooner, shorter, and higher overall. That said, the timing and duration of the peak will be individual and more strongly influenced by the speed work at that point. This is one reason i liked triple periodization, as I could have increasingly shorter blocks throughout.