Block periodization is not a training technique. It is a planning skill, and it is the one that separates coaches who manage sessions from coaches who manage outcomes.
She walked in on a Tuesday with her training log in one hand and a confession in the other. Summer was coming. Her kids were out of school in three weeks, which meant road trips, a family reunion in Colorado, and a stretch of weeks when “consistent training” meant something entirely different than the program you’d been building together. The strength block you’d designed for the next eight weeks would need to bend.
You had two options: try to maintain the block anyway and watch it fall apart by week three, or redesign it around what was actually going to happen. Block periodization gives you the framework to choose the second option before the crisis arrives.
