Tudor O. Bompa, the pioneer of periodization training, and leading periodization researcher G. Gregory Haff present the fifth edition of Periodization: Theory and Methodology of Training. Guided by Bompa and Haff's expertise, you will learn how to vary the intensity and volume of training to optimize the body's ability to recover and rebuild, resulting in better performance and less risk of injury. Translated into nine languages, this book has become one of the major resources on periodization for sport scientists, coaches, and athletes throughout the world.

Better organized and easier to read, the fifth edition of this definitive text presents the latest refinements to periodization theory:

• New research on rest and restoration, specifically countermeasures used in facilitating recovery plus practical suggestions for implementation
  
• How the use of sequential training and delayed training effects can produce optimal performance at major competitions
  
• A comprehensive discussion, grounded in scientific data, on applying various methods of peaking to ensure optimal performance for competition
  
• New information on how concepts such as conjugated sequencing and summated microcycle structures can maximize strength gains and direct training
  
• Expanded information on the development of sport performance characteristics, including speed training and sport-specific endurance

When it comes to designing programs for optimal training, Tudor Bompa's expertise is unmatched. Periodization: Theory and Methodology of Training presents the latest refinements to Bompa's periodization theory to help you create training programs that enhance sport skills and ensure peak performance....

Sports conditioning has advanced tremendously since the era when a "no pain, no gain" philosophy guided the training regimens of athletes. Dr. Tudor Bompa pioneered most of these breakthroughs, proving long ago that it’s not only how much and how hard an athlete works but also when and what work is done that determines the athlete’s conditioning level.

In Periodization Training for Sports, Bompa demonstrates how to use periodized workouts in order to peak at optimal times by manipulating six different training phases: anatomical adaptation, hypertrophy, maximum strength, conversion to power, maintenance, and transition. Coaches and athletes in 32 sports have at their fingertips a proven program that is sure to produce the best results. No more guessing about preseason conditioning, in-season workloads, or appropriate rest and recovery periods; now it’s simply a matter of identifying and implementing the information in this book.

Presented in a useful format with plenty of ready-made training schedules, Periodization Training for Sports is your best conditioning planner if you want to know what works, why it works, and when it works in the training room and on the practice field. Get in better shape next season, and see the benefits of smarter workouts in competition....

As most other team sports, rugby is a sport of technical finesse, tactical boldness, and refined and complex physical development. In this book, only one, but the crucial element of this sport, will be addressed, namely the physical conditioning. This topic represents the foundation of all the other elements of the game. To make this book very practical and easy to apply, a huge amount of different and important aspects for a good training and the anticipated successes and also specific proposals for the abilities of each position and their development is announced in particular. After a description of the fundamentals of rugby and the general physiological demands of the sport, a player profile is suggested in order to present specific testings and trainings. Also short term and annual training plans are shown and explained in detail to improve the different skills of the players. The most important motor abilities, like power, speed and endurance, have their own chapters, where extra training for them is provided as practical as possible, with many examples and drills. In the end, also the recovery and the nutrition are exactly described, whereby the necessary energy for playing and training is warranted....