Question

What is Periodisation

Answer 1

Periodization is the process or study of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time[1] in order to facilitate the study and analysis of history. This results in descriptive abstractions that provide convenient terms for periods of time with relatively stable characteristics. However, determining the precise beginning and ending to any "period" is often arbitrary. To the extent that history is continuous and ungeneralizable, all systems of periodization are more or less arbitrary. Yet without named periods, however clumsy or imprecise, past time would be nothing more than scattered events without a framework to help us understand them. Nations, cultures, families, and even individuals, each with their different remembered histories, are constantly engaged in imposing overlapping, often unsystematized, schemes of temporal periodization; periodizing labels are continually challenged and redefined, but once established, a period "brand" is so convenient that many are very hard to shake off.

Answer 2

• Periodisation is the way of taking everything you have learned about exercise technique, and weaving it into a usable training program. It is an effective way to plan for a long term goal. Even if you do not have goal in mind, it is important to use a constantly evolving program. This will keep you from getting bored and it stops you from stagnating in fitness and strength gains.