“Master, what shall we do today?”
The gym is the question that is repeated by students at the beginning of the lesson, but do not always receive an exhaustive answer, indeed often the training is decided shortly before entering, or even on time. If you have had this feeling, there’s something wrong!
Boxing is a sport with many variables, snap, featuring flicks also impulsive, but this does not mean that the formula must be programmed and rational and cannot have an instinctive character.
Plan and periodise, these are the two terms that every trainer must consider when at the beginning of the season prepares the training plan for its athletes.
This is the only way to develop skills (motor skills, techniques and tactics, etc) and skills needed to achieve and maintain peak form.
What do you mean periodise?
In very simple terms means identifying 3 moments in which divide the time elapsing from the initiation of the preparation to the main sporting event (Italian Championships, regional tournaments, international headlines etc..).
You can divide these phases:
1) preparatory period (divided further into milestone and special stage);
2) competitive period;
3) transition period (or rest).
Each period includes mesocicli in turn composed microcycles organized into individual units of training.
There is also another stage which we will call the anatomical adaptation, it is a period ranging from 2 to 6 weeks where the goal is to put the focus on evaluative aspects of athletes with specific testing on improving of some shortcomings such as mobility and flexibility, or to learn new exercises, gestures or movements for use in subsequent periods.
It is clear that every single exercise cannot be left to chance and daily mood of the master, the repetitiveness of the exercises without a stated purpose becomes harmful and often counterproductive and limiting to improve sports performance.
In future articles we will discuss in detail of all three stages, trying to understand how each is crucial in building and sports training of the athletes.
