Strength training is not rocket science. Sports success is dependent upon how you perform your sports skills on the field, court, and track and not how you perform in the weight room. The only thing that you can become, in the weight room, is stronger. Strength training should be a means to an end, not an end unto itself. As the stress of the specific sport is not enough to maintain the athlete's strength during the season, an in-season strength training program is an absolute must.
Abbreviated training is what is called for here.
This in no way should be construed that I think that the athlete's training cycle should not be organized in a sequential manner. Mel, thanks for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this discussion. Second, even if you could design the perfect program, the body will accommodate to it after a perio d of time, meaning that you would experience diminishing results, until eventually, you would hit a complete plateau. First, the vast majority of people do not implement enough variety in their workout programs. As long as a program is in some way different from what a person is accustomed to, they will make progres s for a while, but again, after a period of time, stagnation will inevitable set in.