The final topic in this course revolves around the common theme of preparing the athlete for peak performance. In this lesson, we focus on the different types of training effects that are the outcome of the training session. Recall, that the training effect is equivalent to the super compensation response that I have highlighted in blue here. We're also going to review the alternative to Super-compensation theory when deciding the timing of the next training stimulus. The assumption underlying Super-compensation theory is that all the fatigue effects are fully gone at Super-compensation. And for these reason, the best time for the training stimulus is at the peak of Super-compensation. We will examine an alternative view that considers the possibility that the fitness effects and the fatigue effects dissipate at different speeds. This notion is important when using block periodization strategies that we do not discuss in this course, because they're advanced periodization theory. For this we need to go back to this slide on the steps involved in the athlete's training program design. This was introduced to you in the very first lesson. The first step is to decide what you want the athlete to accomplish. That is, what is their training objective? It could be strength, or speed, or endurance or any other objective that develops the appropriate sport specific phenotype. The ultimate goal is to design the correct sports specific phenotype so the athlete can ultimately perform at their genetic potential. So, now you have a deep understanding of the science involved in accomplishing training objectives through the stimulation of the appropriate training effects. Training effects are the direct outcome of the training exercises that you select as the training stimulus. Now glycogen is super-compensation, is an example of a training effect. And you saw this glycogen super-compensation slide in an earlier lesson. And at the time, I pointed out that the timing of glycogen super-compensation differed for the brain, the liver, and the skeletal muscle. And you're probably wondering by now, so what glycogen super-compensation effect should I focus on? And this is a really great question. Basically, the training effect that provides the athlete the greatest performance impact is the best choice. Typically, we evaluate the effectiveness of a training session by summing all the training into one generalized training effect or GTE as it's called. Some glycogen training effects will be completely dissipated by the time the next training stimulus is applied. The brain's glycogen super-compensation for example, is to hang by the time muscle glycogen who is super compensated. Now, complicating things a bit further is that there are six categories of general training effects. And they include the acute, the immediate cumulative, delayed, partial, and residual categories. Each of these general training effects can occur first as an outcome of a single exercise within a training session. As an outcome of an entire training session. It can be due to a series of training sessions. It can be due to the outcome of an entire training season, or they can be due to stabilized adaptations retained after training stops. Each training effect plays a role on the ultimate performance of the athlete. Now while, one or two training sessions don't significantly improve an athletes performance, multiple training sessions stimulate the body's internal structures to adapt and this in turn improves the athletes performance. So in this lesson, we will examine generalized training effects, and they are shortened to GTEs. And we'll also examine an alternative model to Super-compensation theory when considering the decay of fitness effects and fatigue effects. So, let's get started.
