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Periodization
About: Periodization is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 390 publications have been published within this topic receiving 3559 citations. The topic is also known as: periodisation.
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TL;DR: The block periodization model as mentioned in this paper proposes the sequencing of specialized training cycles, i.e. blocks, which contain highly concentrated workloads directed to a minimal number of targeted abilities, in order to guarantee the consecutive development of reasonably selected target abilities.
Abstract: The theory of training was established about five decades ago when knowledge of athletes' preparation was far from complete and the biological background was based on a relatively small amount of objective research findings. At that time, traditional 'training periodization', a division of the entire seasonal programme into smaller periods and training units, was proposed and elucidated. Since then, international sport and sport science have experienced tremendous changes, while the traditional training periodization has remained at more or less the same level as the published studies of the initial publications. As one of the most practically oriented components of theory, training periodization is intended to offer coaches basic guidelines for structuring and planning training. However, during recent decades contradictions between the traditional model of periodization and the demands of high-performance sport practice have inevitably developed. The main limitations of traditional periodization stemmed from: (i) conflicting physiological responses produced by 'mixed' training directed at many athletic abilities; (ii) excessive fatigue elicited by prolonged periods of multi-targeted training; (iii) insufficient training stimulation induced by workloads of medium and low concentration typical of 'mixed' training; and (iv) the inability to provide multi-peak performances over the season. The attempts to overcome these limitations led to development of alternative periodization concepts. The recently developed block periodization model offers an alternative revamped approach for planning the training of high-performance athletes. Its general idea proposes the sequencing of specialized training cycles, i.e. blocks, which contain highly concentrated workloads directed to a minimal number of targeted abilities. Unlike the traditional model, in which the simultaneous development of many athletic abilities predominates, block-periodized training presupposes the consecutive development of reasonably selected target abilities. The content of block-periodized training is set down in its general principles, a taxonomy of mesocycle blocks, and guidelines for compiling an annual plan.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that focusing on the "twentieth century" as such obscures one of the most encompassing or fundamental sociopolitical trends of modern world development, namely the emergence, ascendancy, and subsequent crisis of what is best labeled "territoriality."
Abstract: How WILL HISTORIANS ANALYZE THE CENTURY that has just concluded? What narratives or interpretations will they construct to make sense of the last hundred years? A century of world wars, of political violence, of modernization? Will the twentieth century cohere as a historical epoch? For historians and the reading public alike, centuries provide a ready-made chronological framework for largescale history. Nevertheless, I believe that the idea of twentieth-century history will serve us as a temporal framework only in very selective ways. It may remain as the shorthand designation for what I discuss below as one or another "moral narratives." It will not, though, serve us as well for demarcating economic development or large-scale institutional change, what we can call "structural narratives."1 These structural narratives, this essay will argue, involve trends that have unfolded in a tempo independent of the twentieth century. What follows is an effort to juxtapose these two chronological perspectives-structural and moral narratives, and of one structural narrative in particular-with their respective claims about historical significance and historical periodization. The problems that a twentieth-century history presents do not arise just because of ragged beginning and end points, such that 1914 and 1989, rather than 1900 and 2000, are envisaged as opening and closing the political story, at least of Western history. Neither does the difficulty result from the fact that internal caesuraswhether, above all, the defeat of fascism and the end of the world wars in the case of the European narrative or the achievement of decolonization with respect to the Asian, Middle Eastern, and African history-are so profound that the 1900s as a whole retain little "structural" unity. Instead, I would urge, to focus on the "twentieth century" as such obscures one of the most encompassing or fundamental sociopolitical trends of modern world development, namely the emergence, ascendancy, and subsequent crisis of what is best labeled "territoriality." Making the case for the significance of territoriality is a principal objective here. Insofar as the case
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an argument for the periodization of inner Asian history based on the ability of inner Asians to extract from outside sources the wealth necessary for the maintenance of political and military state apparatus.
Abstract: The history of empires created by inner Asian peoples bears direct relevance to the
conceptualization of world history down to the early modern period, as their impact on
surrounding civilizations resulted in long-lasting demographic, economic, and political
changes. This essay explores the basic mechanisms of state formation in inner Asia
and presents an argument for the periodization of inner Asian history based on the
incremental ability of inner Asian empires to extract from outside sources the wealth
necessary for the maintenance of political and military state apparatus. On this basis, the
essay proposes a four-phase periodization, including ages of tribute empires (209 B.C.-
A.D. 551), trade-tribute empires (551Ð907), dual-administration empires (907Ð1259),
and direct-taxation empires (1260Ð1796).
215 citations
TL;DR: The identification of coherent periods of history involves much more than the simple discovery of self-evident turning points in the past: it depends on prior decisions about the issues and processes that are most important for the shaping of human societies, and it requires the establishment of criteria or principles that enable historians to sort through masses of information and recognize patterns of continuity and change.
Abstract: Periodization ranks among the more elusive tasks of historical Scholarship. As practicing historians well know, the identification of coherent periods of history involves much more than the simple discovery of self-evident turning points in the past: it depends on prior decisions about the issues and processes that are most important for the shaping of human societies, and it requires the establishment of criteria or principles that enable historians to sort through masses of information and recognize patterns of continuity and change. Even within the framework of a single society, changes in perspective can call the coherence of conventionally recognized periods into question, as witness Joan Kelly’s famous essay “Did Women Have a Renaissance?” or Dietrich Gerhard’s concept of “old Europe.”
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