Ep. 65 - Periodization vs Programming For Strength (ft. Dr. Mike Zourdos)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In the lifting community, two words are often used interchangeably: periodization and programming. Are they, in fact, the same thing? As you will learn in this episode featuring special guest Dr. Mike Zourdos, they are surprisingly not synonyms. What develops from the conversation is a more thorough understanding of the two which will yield a better perspective on your training. Find out in what context both periodization and programming are useful and why Bulgarian style training sounds fun until you actually try to execute it. Don't say we didn't warn you.

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0:00.0	Eric, I'm going to use three words that people don't understand.
0:04.2	They use it.
0:04.7	They're quite common, and they've almost reached the point of being platitudes when you use in sentences.
0:09.9	I'm going to use these three words, and then we could talk about them a little bit.
0:14.2	Programming.
0:16.5	Periodization.
0:18.1	Mm.
0:19.5	Love.
0:21.6	Absolutely. No. Absolutely.
0:22.6	Yeah.
0:24.6	Guess which one we're going to talk about today?
0:27.6	Well, I mean, I'll tell you what, the way I feel about programming periodization, we're talking about all three every time we talk about the first two.
0:35.6	Oh, yeah.
0:36.6	And I don't, so, Eric, you are dumb man.
0:41.7	I think, were you the one that started this gangster shit?
0:45.3	Okay.
0:45.7	And I'm not going to finish that lyric.
0:47.9	But we're essentially the distinction that needs to be made between periodization and
0:52.8	programming.
0:53.4	We're now, they're kind of interchangeable.
0:55.3	And sometimes when they enter the vernacular of just the average lifter, it's like, oh, it's interchangeable.
1:01.8	Yeah, programming, periodization, yeah, use both of them. And then there's kind of the men and women in
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