FROM 'BUILD' TO 'PEAK'

When you are transitioning form your ‘BUILD’ to your ‘PEAK’ MESOCYCLE, you want to think about these five things:

1. More Rest Days - To recover muscles, joints, tendons, and nervous system.

2. Mimicking the Conditions of Competition - the movements you’re going to be using, as well as the duration and intensity.

3. The Frequency of Sessions - you want to have less sessions throughout the week to give your nervous system and musculoskeletal system more of a break.

4. Prehab/Rehab Exercises - you want to include more of these exercises prior to competition to prevent injury. The last thing you want before your ‘Big Day’ is to injure yourself when you’ve worked so hard!

5. Finally, you want to take into consideration other recovery strategies that may aid in in your optimal performance - such as, nutrition, calories, sleep (quality & quantity), water (are you taking enough?).

    

All of the above are VITAL to the success of your performance, and you ought to master these to WIN!

One more additional note, is that the amount of ‘Strength-based’ sessions per week depends on what you are training for: a Strong Man competition is going to require you to do more ‘Strength’ sessions than a person who is competing in a half-marathon, or a triathlon.

Your REST days will also increase.

Thanks for Reading!

Brad

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