A System of Periodization as Adapted for the American Strength Coach
This presentation will address a soviet system of periodization that has been adapted for utilization in the American professional and collegiate athletic team training setting. Three USA Hall of Fame Coaches will present how to adapt this periodization model in the collegiate team training environment. Included in this presentation will be the selection of exercises as well the manipulation of both exercise volume and intensity over prolonged periods of training, for the enhancement of athletic performance while the avoiding physical overuse (over training) type symptom’s. These coaches have utilized this system of periodization for the past 4 decades resulting in multiple professional world, league and collegiate conference championships.
Robert Panariello MS, PT, ATC, CSCS is a Founding Partner and Chief Clinical Officer at Professional Physical Therapy, which has 185 facilities in 5 northeast states and the 20,000 square foot state of the art Professional Athletic Performance Center located in Garden City, New York. He is a former Division I collegiate, professional football and professional soccer team head strength and conditioning coach, researcher, and CEO. He has studied the science of strength and conditioning and the art of coaching with the national weightlifting teams, coaches, and athletes, as well as other various national sport teams in Bulgaria, the former Soviet Union, and former East Germany.
As a researcher and author Panariello has more than 60 peer reviewed orthopedic, sports medicine, sports physical therapy, and strength and conditioning research and journal articles, book chapters, and book publications, including the book “THE SYSTEM, Soviet Periodization Adapted for the American Strength Coach” whom he co-authored with his co-presenters Johnny Parker and Al Miller. He is the recipient of the 2016 National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Sports Medicine/Sports Rehabilitation Specialist of the Year Award, the 2015 American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy (AASPT) Lynn Wallace Clinical Educator of the Year Award, and was one of the inaugural inductees to the USA Strength and Conditioning Coaches Hall of Fame in 2003.
