Peak Performance Length?
The Peak Performance Program is a schedule of training that lasts from 12-20 weeks. You can pick the actual length of the program as it relates to your goal race date. There is a reason for the lower and upper limits on the number of weeks of the program. The lower limit is set because it takes close to 12 weeks to have a significant effect on an athlete’s fitness, especially if someone has been training incorrectly in the past. It takes about this length of time for your physiology to shift and to really begin to reap the benefits of my training. Any Peak Performance Program that is shorter than this is just about impossible to have a significant positive effect in terms of greatly improving racing performance. The upper limit of 20 weeks was set to prevent burnout. If someone follows a regimented high-end training program for a goal race much further than 20 weeks away, they run the risk of hitting their peak well before the actual race date. 20 weeks is a sustainable period of train
