Periodisation and planned for months? This is not periodisation by any stretch of the imagination. If anyone at the club thinks it is then they have an amateurish grasp of this form of training.endoman wrote:It's probably exactly what they need, you simply can't train at intensity through an entire season. Periodisation is the fancy title for it.
Yes the timing looks bad, but it will have been planned for months. Bit daft of the players to post stuff on social media when they must understand the feeling of the species is at rock bottom.
The goal of periodisation is to develop a cyclic training method whereby the body is given adequate time to recover from stress before additional training is undertaken. The recovery or de-stress period does not equate to going on a boozy weekend and going on a bender and it is not going to help the body recover. If anything it will make it more likely the body reacts badly when the normal training resumes.
Allowing the players a week off to do as they please just shows how amateurish the club has become. I don't really care if they post on social media or not that they are on the booze because it's bad PR . The fact they are doing this at all mid-season is the issue and it never ceases to amaze me how many people think its OK and ignore the fact they are supposed to be elite athletes. If this was the 60's and 70's when the game was semi-pro, fair enough but it's not.
If the club wants to take players away for a bit of R&R as part of the de-stress phase of periodisation it should be as a group and with suitable physiotherapy sessions planed. Not allowing players to swan off on boozy weekends.
