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 ...

The subject of today’s blog is Periodisation, a method of planning and implementing a training programme over time used by many personal trainers and other professionals within the health and fitness ...

Human adaptation does not follow calendar schedules drawn up according to someone’s research somewhere. Individual recovery capability varies dramatically between athletes, depending on numerous ...

The traditional periodisation model has been the basis for many an elite and age-grouper’s training for years. In fact, the original theory of sub-dividing your programme into smaller periods and ...