The Mind Muscle Connection

How To Periodize Your Training | Ep 769

• Jeff Hoehn

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Welcome to the Mind Muscle Connection Podcast!

Training periodization is about adjusting your training throughout the year based on your goals, nutrition, recovery, and life situation. In this episode, I break down how to structure different phases around lifting, cardio, or a combination of both.

I also cover how nutrition affects training, how to approach training during fat loss, and how to use hypertrophy, strength, body part specialization, and cardio-focused blocks throughout the year. The goal is to help you better manage your training load, recovery, and performance so you know when to push and when to pull back.

This episode will help you structure your training around your goals and use your recovery capacity where it matters most. 


Let’s talk about:

  • Introduction and Coaching
  • What Is Training Periodization?
  • Matching Training With Recovery and Nutrition
  • Building/Fueling and Fat Loss Phases
  • Training During a Building Phase
  • Lifting, Cardio, and Combo Focuses
  • Lifting-Focused Training
  • Cardio-Focused Training
  • Combo-Focused Training
  • Hypertrophy, Strength, and Body Part Specialization
  • Training During a Fat Loss Phase
  • Managing Training During a Deficit
  • Carbohydrates, Refeeds, and Training Performance
  • The Role of Cardio During Fat Loss
  • Putting Training Periodization Together Across the Year
  • Final Takeaways


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