🚀 NEW: Agile Strength Planner Flexible prescriptions. Automatic load ranges. Modular team workouts. Printable training cards. Plan in Excel. Print. Coach. Early launch: €49 Regular price: €99 Free for Agile Periodization Skool members. Get it: payhip.com/b/USyzL Or join Skool and get it for FREE: skool.com/agileperiodization Reply ASP and I’ll send you the link. PLEASE RT!!!! #StrengthAndConditioning #AgilePeriodization

🚀 NEW: Agile Strength Planner Flexible prescriptions. Automatic load ranges. Modular team workouts. Printable training cards. Plan in Excel. Print. Coach. Early launch: €49 Regular price: €99 Free for Agile Periodization Skool members. Get it: payhip.com/b/USyzL Or join Skool and get it for FREE: skool.com/agileperiodization Reply ASP and I’ll send you the link. PLEASE RT!!!! #StrengthAndConditioning #AgilePeriodization

Sports researchers: Have you used LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT) in your research? Take part in a 🌍 global study exploring how LLMs are shaping sports research. Eligibility: 18 and published since 2023. ⏱️ 15 mins, anonymous. forms.gle/8FVbHc5aDwBMv3jK6

I descended from Mount Common Sense with a message nobody asked for: Stop starting with drills. The athlete performs inside a problem — not your spreadsheet, drill library, or favorite model. The Ten Commandments of Problemming: agileperiodization.substack.… #problemming #agileperiodization

The "Barbell Strategy" - One of the major mental models in Agile Periodization.

Problemming > Drillling

"Building maximum strength isn’t that important for sports performance." Always said by the guy whose athletes are about to drop the ropiest set of squats and pulls you’ve seen in your life. Weak hinges. Zero force. Predictable breakdowns. Max strength is the foundation. Power = Force × Velocity. No raw force = no real power, no RFD, no transfer, and higher injury risk. Why hip hinge mastery (especially heavy RDL variations) wins: Hamstring force production: The bilateral RDL hits peak forces of ~1.6 BW in biceps femoris and ~1.9 BW in semimembranosus higher than most other exercises with greater stretch. This builds the exact robustness needed for sprinting, deceleration, and injury resistance. Sprint & athletic transfer: Hip extension strength strongly correlates with sprint speed, horizontal force, and acceleration metrics. Stronger hinges = better mechanics, more frontside dominance, and real on-field horsepower. Injury prevention & resilience: Heavy hinges load the posterior chain under stretch in a sport-relevant pattern. Strength training overall slashes sports injuries by up to 2/3 and overuse issues by ~50%. Your athletes don’t just look strong they stay available. Golf/power transfer: Lower body hip strength links directly to clubhead speed and rotational power. ETPI/DP World Tour level athletes thrive when the hinge is dialed in. The reductionists love their Nordics and gadgets, but the empirical winners (fighters, grapplers, golfers, sprinters) build craft in the hinge first, then layer contrast, specifics, and skill. Hinge Mastery isn’t optional. It’s the non-negotiable pattern for athletes who dominate instead of cope. coach-wayland-collective.cir…

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Are you interested in Research Design and Statistics? This collection brings together many of the original studies and editorials focused on research design and statistics that have been published in the Journal of Sports Sciences since 1983. tandfonline.com/journals/rjs…

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A swimmer and an MMA fighter do not solve the same problem. So why do so many plans start from the same place? Strength. Speed. Endurance. Load. Dose. Useful? Yes. But sport is not just a shopping list of capacities. New Substack article: The Dose Coach vs. The Problemming Coach A dialogue between two coaches arguing whether training should start with capacities… or with the actual problem the athlete must solve. Core idea: Problem-led. Dose-regulated. agileperiodization.substack.…

Your perfect strength program is useless if it creates chaos in the gym. Team training is not just exercise selection. It is: • facility design • athlete flow • shared equipment • modular stations • individualization inside the group • coach bandwidth • load prescription that survives reality The gym is not just a room. It is part of the program. New article free 40-min video: agileperiodization.substack.…

Thank you @AndreaGiorgiDoc and the whole @Bardiani_CSF team 😌🚴 Want to play around with the model? tiscourse.vercel.app/extra-m… @bmgsport @PaulBLaursen @Athletica_AI

You feel it, don’t you? That tiny glitch in the training plan. The athlete hits the numbers. Completes the sets. Lives inside the zones. Collects the data. And still, when the real problem appears, everything breaks. This is because the plan was built around the dose. Not the problem. The blue pill says: “Give me the perfect exercise, perfect volume, perfect progression, perfect template.” The red pill says: “What must the athlete solve?” That is the doorway. Because training is not just adaptation. Training is perception. Decision. Action. Timing. Pressure. Space. Opponent. Chaos. The athlete does not compete against your spreadsheet. They compete against a problem that keeps moving. Problemming is problem-led planning. It starts with the perceptual-movement problem first, then designs practice around it, then lets the dose follow. Take the red pill. See the session for what it really is. Not a list of exercises. A world of problems to solve. Welcome to Problemming. #Problemming #AgilePeriodization #SkillAcquisition #MMA #Coaching

This is metrics creating a self-fulfilling anxiety disorder. When you outsource your perception of readiness to a metric, your brain and body go where the metric demands. It creates fragility. Actual athletes know to use it as information and when to throw the watch away.

A new publication presenting an alternative methodology that could become a valid alternative to the classical methods of performance evaluation. A big thank you to Andrea Zignoli for his idea and perseverance and to all the authors involved.

For anyone who may be interested, the following link gives free access to this new publication in @_JSAMS for 50 days! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

Endurance intensity gets messy fast. LT1, VT1, CV, CP, MAS, MSS, ASR, threshold, VO2max, Zone 2… Useful concepts. Easy to turn into alphabet soup. So I built Endurance Map Builder: a practical map of speeds, paces, domains, zones, and methods. Preview video: youtube.com/watch?v=AsFOnLqK… Product: payhip.com/b/DSc7p €9.99 Use the map. Coach the athlete. #agileperiodization #endurance #sportscience

Most coaches don’t need more information. They need better thinking. Your plan looks perfect on paper. Then real athletes happen: fatigue, chaos, schedule changes, noisy data, different responses, and all the usual mess. That is where coaching actually begins. Agile Periodization: Philosophical Foundations is a 10 hour course on the mental models behind better coaching decisions: 🗺️ Map vs Territory ⚖️ Robust vs Optimal 🧭 Explore vs Exploit 🏎️ Substance vs Form 🛠️ Tools, not Truths 🔁 Iterative Planning 📊 Bayesian Updating Not abstract philosophy. Practical tools for thinking, judging, adapting, and coaching under uncertainty. 7 modules. 10 hours. €49. Link: payhip.com/b/iA3qU Please RT!!!