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Category 04

Training Execution
& Self-Regulation

How to actually train inside the system. RPE, heart rate zones, when high-skill work must come first, and how to read your own training signals so the program delivers what it promises.

Three articles
01
High Skill, High Fresh: Why Olympic Lifting and Gymnastics Come First

What must be done fresh and what can tolerate fatigue — the principle that organizes every session. Why broad jumps were moved to the warm-up, why the Olympic complex opens Day 7, and how the session structure protects skill quality.

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02
How to Read Your Body: RPE, Heart Rate Zones, and Training Intuition

Percentage-based programming is precise in theory and imprecise in practice. RPE and heart rate zones let the program respond to the actual athlete on a specific day. What the numbers mean and how to apply them in every session type.

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03
The Peaking Phase: Why You Don't Train Hard the Week Before the Test

Delayed transformation, deloads, and how adaptation actually expresses itself. Fatigue masks fitness. The taper is not rest — it is the mechanism that allows everything you've built to show up on test day.

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