Incorporating one week of planned overreaching into the training program of weightlifters

Strength and Conditioning Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 39-44

  Pistilli, Emidio E ^a   Kaminsky, David E ^b   Totten, Leo M ^c   Miller, David R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b AlphaBioCom   (United States)

^c Werksan Barbells   (United States)

^d East Coast Gold Weightlifting   (United States)

Author keywords

Overtraining; Periodization; Volume load; Weightlifting

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649988808     PISSN: 15241602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1519/SSC.0b013e31818ee78c     Document Type: Article

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