Within the Olympic Movement, the primary goal of the United States Olympic Committee is to help American athletes achieve sustained, competitive, excellence and increase medal opportunities for Team USA. This objective is only achievable through competitive success in a vast array of sporting disciplines. As such, the athletes representing the U.S. must be sent into Olympic competition at peak physical readiness. For this reason, sport performance professionals and coaches alike must adopt training theories and practices that will optimize competitive preparedness. Periodization has been, and will continue to be, an integral part of athlete development. Both empirical and anecdotal evidence suggests athletes adhering to a tactfully-planned program demonstrate consistent improvements in physical preparedness and are less likely to sustain over-training or overuse injuries. As a result, coaches employ various periodization strategies with the overarching goal being a bolstering of an athlete`s competitive success. While periodization may continue to be a recommended strategy in program design, recent advancements in the scientific understanding of human development cannot be dismissed. Specifically, the increased use of technology and monitoring systems in the sport setting will allow coaches and performance professionals to become more aware of how individual athletes respond to a given training stimulus. As coaches become more astute in the monitoring process and subsequent data interpretation, periodization strategies can be tailored to meet the needs of each individual athlete under their supervision. This evidence-based approach to the sequentially-staged planning process will continue to refine and optimize an athlete`s opportunity for success when they showcase their physical and mental capabilities against similarly-equipped competition.
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