Lesson series

Training periodisation in endurance sports

In this course, Iñigo Mujika discusses the periodisation of training in endurance sports.

You will learn about:
  The components of an endurance training program
  Models of periodisation
  Balancing performance and recovery
  Criticisms of periodisation and ways to overcome them
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Author

Iñigo Mujika

Number of lectures

1

Video time

45 mins

Key readings

1

Exams

1

Testimonials

Iñigo Mujika

Iñigo has spent his career researching and applying periodisation in various sports. Iñigo's research interest are in applied sport science and include training method and recovery, tapering, detraining and overtraining. He was a senior physiologist at the Australian Institute of Sport. Iñigo has more than 80 publications behind his name and has worked with a large number of elite athletes from swimmers to triathletes to cyclists. He worked with a pro cycling team from the basque country and the biggest Basque soccer team: Athletico Bilbao.
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