Jun 11
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
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May 30
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.…
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May 27
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
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Most periodization debates ask the wrong question.
- Linear or block?
- Undulating or conjugate?
-General to specific?
That’s not the real issue.
The real issue is this: what kind of world are we assuming when we plan training?
Agile Periodization starts from a simple premise: the athlete does not live in your spreadsheet.
Adaptation is messy. Constraints change. Reality fights back.
The best coach is not the one with the prettiest annual plan — it’s the one who can keep making good decisions when the plan stops matching reality.
In this new piece I unpack:
-planning under uncertainty
- the plan as a hypothesis, not truth
- robustness over fake optimality
- problemming vs dosing
- why the unit of planning matters
Read here:
agileperiodization.substack.…
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29 Dec 2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️Competition⭐️⭐️⭐️
Can you guess Werd of the Day #7?
Weiners so far:
#1 - Wendetta - @hexpleb
#2 - Maldivas - @St3v3Stache
#3 - Sockumentary - @SteveHitson
#4 - Problemming - @St3v3Stache
#5 - Irrelephant - @bradbradbrad01
#6 - Sighborg - @St3v3Stache
The first to guess will be entered into a proyze drawer
to win something plebby great. 14 more werds left....
Rules:
⛳️ Share, retweet n follow
🔍 to get a clue
🏆Be the first
✏️ to guess the Werd correctly
🍆 and be entered into
🏷 our proyze drawer
🍴 with all the other utensils
#PoorPleb #cryptocompetition #werdoftheday
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People really are smugly Trolley Problemming the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
I despair of humanity.
2 Nov 2023
If someone said "The person who killed your father and kidnapped your mother is hiding in a house that has six kids in it. You understand why we can't do anything, right?" You probably would not take that well.
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19 Aug 2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Congratulations @St3v3Stache ⭐️⭐️⭐️
🍸 You won our fourth #werdoftheday challenge:
📽 Following your problems
🔥 off a cliff
🧦 - Problemming
💚 Steve you have been entered into
🌭 a random weiners pryze drawer
🍪 to win somat BIGGER than nothing
⏰ at an unknown time in the future
✏️ First 20 weiners of 20 'Werds of the Day' will qualify
Thankyou all who took part
more coming soooooon
#Competition #PoorPleb $PP
@HexyBastard
@georgiacarrera
@beeple
@coreycosta123
@Player1Taco
@007McCrypto1
@PulsedogeMoon
@JEWCOIN_PP
@yourfriendSOMMI
@FundingGym
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20 Aug 2021
my problemming languages:
c/c
php
object Pascal
java
javascript
R
lua
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I can't help but get the feeling that rental scooters represent a case of solution-problemming: that is, creating a "solution" to a problem that very few people ever really had.
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As a Swede, you could have said "I'm not problemming verbing nouns, nouning verbs, or even nouning adjectives." I consider this a tragic missed opportunity. ;)
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10 Oct 2018
I had an actual proper male human in my house at some point today. I was out and I knew, it was planned don't worry. The problem wasn't problemming at the point that he was present so he left, fixing nothing. But I know he used my 🚽 because he left the seat up. BOYS ARE RUBBISH
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23 Mar 2017
it sounds like you're prematurely problemming. maybe you misheard him?
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19 Feb 2017
but what if help isn't help but it's just problemming the problem while helping the problem?
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.@flowchainsensei This is what @JerryWeinberg calls "solution problemming." It's the opposite of problem solving.
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