Thanks for this - I can take some of my specific case offline, but maybe this works (?) as a rough example for the "weekend warrior" hobbyist or tournament player who also wants to remain well-rounded:
Offseason:
-Form (form, and more form)
-Peak strength & volume training, shore up relevant & weak areas as needed
-Resistive "fast twitch" and functional movement training
"Preseason" (~2-4 weeks)
-Shift to form maintenance and minor adjustments to address specific problems
-Tapering from strength & volume toward strength maintenance
-Emphasize fast twitch and functional movement training & preserve form
Onseason*:
-Mon/Tues: Sustain reduced volume but still emphasize new strength & strength maintenance. Continue to emphasize any areas of weakness. Allow sufficient recovery for compensation/performance overshoots.
-Weds/Thurs: Mobility, rhythm, quickness, power, some throwing & form work/maintenance.
-Friday: Recovery, visualization, low impact repetitions.
-Weekend: Game time
This is an ok general takeaway. Though I will admit my initial reaction is similar to Axion where I hesitate whenever I hear people talk about the CNS or CNS recovery. I'm a neuroscientist by day trade. Here, it does depend on what we're talking about. My main area of specialization is in brain circuits that manage cognitive load and difficult tasks during decision making in healthy and clinical samples, which got me interested in fatigue.
Incidentally, one of my students is about to graduate with her Clinical PhD studying cognitive vs. physical fatigue, so I'm sure there are things we could discuss more deeply to avoid bunk concepts on that topic in particular. There are many, and it is still incredibly contentious even among the people taking your NIH dollars to study it very seriously. Physicians, cognitive neuroscientists, bioengineers, and physical trainers all take
very different approaches to the problem.
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