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Periodize your game

One of the scope of conditioning training is to overcome fatigue.

Fatigue affects technical and tactical proficiency ( a tipical example are

mistakes committed in the last part of the game; poor percentage of passing

and kicking,wrong choices when you are reading the game and also

important to consider is when youre tired youre prone to injuries).

Thru an accurate program of conditioning, your team will grow up in self

esteem, skills, proficiency, in few words: MORE VICTORIES !

Rugby can be defined as a fast paced game with bouts of intense, powerful

physical activity for the conquest and retention or repossession of the ball

alternated with periods of rest.

Features of the game will include high bursts of speed at maximum and

submaximum velocities to better reach the potential you must plan the season:

in few words to get all this you have to organize coaching staff and players

time effectively. Yopu have to create a guide, a target, for the presents andfutures training sessions; all has to be done thre organized training

plan,intended not to complicate a teams life but as a key to open the doors

with the keys of victory!

This approach is defined PERIODIZATION.

It refers to 2 important training concepts:

1) Periodization of the annual plan;2) Periodization of the conditional motor capacities (strength, speed

and endurance)

Periodization incorporates smaller training phases, a week of training,

microcycles, and bigger phases, about a month of training, a macrocycle.

Furthermore if you periodize the conditional motor capacities they enable one

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player to develop their motor capacities to an optimal level of performance.

During the transition period from the last season the strength and

conditioning coach, under the principles of the coaching staff has to prepare

the season: in few words organize all the works, the training sessions.

The all works Is done thru a Preparatory period ( you start a new season

and this phase ends near the starting of the season); aCompetitive period

(it starts with the beginning of the rugby league and it ends with the finalgames, and playoffs if theyre present; usually theres a break, around

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Christmas, where you program a new preparatory period). Finally it starts a

new Transition period where you recover from the season and the

injuries.

Important to remember every training session depends on the

training phase and the structure of the training week.It also and

mostly depends on volume, intensity and quality of training (but this

is another article..)

Alessandro Fioravanti

References:

-Tudor Bompa, F.Claro periodization in rugby 2008;

-Tudor Bompa Institute P-ps course personal notes taken by the

author

- Notes taken thru training sessions by the author