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    Periodization Analysis

    A Challenge to Researchers

    By Dr. Greg Shepard
    Published: Winter 1996

    Last June, I attended the NSCA Convention in Atlanta. I was particularly interested in listening to Dr. Michael Stone's two-hour presentation on periodization. He really knows his stuff and I greatly respect his research and knowledge. 

    Some coaches have expressed that BFS is fine for high school but periodization is for college. Some have even said that standard periodization models are best for high school. My position is that the BFS Set-Rep System/Program is also periodization in form and will produce the best possible results in both high school and college team sports. 

    Dr. Stone has used Hans Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome as a rationale for some of the components of his periodization model. I am not sure about the history of Selye's influence on variation schemes with Set-Rep Systems. I can tell you I lectured and wrote about Hans Selye and the importance of variation schemes with Set-Rep Systems. I can tell you I lectured and wrote about Hans Selye and the importance of variation with sets and reps in strength gains over a long period of time as far back as 1967. One of my professors at the University of Oregon taught about Selye and the body's adaptation to stress. I used these theories in developing systems of changing sets and reps by experimenting with variation. Eventually, this turned into the BFS Set-Rep System and BFS Total Program. 

    Whoever thought of using Selye's theories first is not important. What is important is that variation is the key to sustaining progress over a year or career of training. Dr. Stone uses variation in his periodizati