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What is the maximum recommended length of a Mezzo cycle?

April 26, 2017CYCLE LENGTH maximum Mezzo recommended

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What is the maximum recommended length of a Mezzo cycle?

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Since the selected length of a season for your athletes is about 48 weeks, it is highly recommended that the length of one season (mezzo cycle) not exceed 16-18 weeks and ideally stay around 12-14 weeks. The typical elite level athlete’s annual season consists of 3 or 4 mezzo cycles. Such an individual training cycle is dictated by laws of adaptation to physical stress (exercise) and produces the best progress in the adaptation processes (i.e. results progression) during the annual cycle.