Always amazed at how cut and dried people what things to be.
My suggestions on periodization are not laws or rules, they are guidelines based on my experience,
best practice and science. Coaching, being there and actively working with the
athlete trumps all this. You have be focused and involved. Nothing is purely metabolic
or neural, all systems of the body work together to produce movement. Using
labels like metabolic or neural are terms of convenience to help convey a
concept rather than an absolute. Certainly there is a neural component to everything
g we do, as well as metabolic; it is just what is the emphasis. Planning
training should be simpler than the Bompa’s of the world are making it out to
be. I tend to be a simplifier not a complexifier. You do not have to make it complex;
the process will take care of that. As I have said many times simplicity yields
complexity, just open you eyes and look around at all the numerous examples of
this in everyday life, training is no different.
