Hi,
I have signed up for a half Ironman in September and am enjoying my training so far. The books I have read, and people I have spoken to have all suggested periodising my training (3 weeks on/1week recovery). I can totally see the logic of this, but I have a bad habit of wanting to see evidence for things!
I have tried pubmed etc for peer reviewed articles with the data for periodization and its effect sizes, I have found some meta-analysis studies, and a few with 20-30 athletes,, but these all tended to be for weightlifting/ strength and conditioning.
Can anyone point me towards the peer reviewed evidence, so I can scratch the particular brain itch I have about this. As I said, it sounds logical and reasonable, I just want to understand it a bit better.
Apologies for my spelling of periodisation/periodization both seem to be used quite a lot!
I have signed up for a half Ironman in September and am enjoying my training so far. The books I have read, and people I have spoken to have all suggested periodising my training (3 weeks on/1week recovery). I can totally see the logic of this, but I have a bad habit of wanting to see evidence for things!
I have tried pubmed etc for peer reviewed articles with the data for periodization and its effect sizes, I have found some meta-analysis studies, and a few with 20-30 athletes,, but these all tended to be for weightlifting/ strength and conditioning.
Can anyone point me towards the peer reviewed evidence, so I can scratch the particular brain itch I have about this. As I said, it sounds logical and reasonable, I just want to understand it a bit better.
Apologies for my spelling of periodisation/periodization both seem to be used quite a lot!