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Programming and Periodisation for Team Sports

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Training programming and periodisation is widely acknowledged as crucial for optimising training responses. The achievement of physical aims is impossible when attempted without considering the different possibilities of periodisation, which is understood as the structuring of the training process and competition participation into various phases, periods and cycles. Thus, this chapter introduces different training periodisation concepts and summarises a large body of findings describing their potential benefits and possible limitations. Applying periodised planning to team sports poses unique challenges due to the variety of training goals, volume of concurrent training and practices, and extended season of competition. Therefore, practical suggestions are offered in this chapter to address these challenges and apply programming and periodisation to the design of strength training programmes for different phases of physical preparation for team sport athletes.

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  2. Sport and Informatics Department, University of Pablo de Olavide, Ctra. de Utrera, 1, 41013, Seville, Spain

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de Hoyo Lora, M., Arrones, L.S. (2022). Programming and Periodisation for Team Sports. In: Muñoz-López, A., Taiar, R., Sañudo, B. (eds) Resistance Training Methods. Lecture Notes in Bioengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81989-7_13

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