05/02/2026
Periodization... 🧠🏋️♀️
🏋️♀️ Performance Tips - “The priority in a company is to prepare to perform. The priority in a vocational school is to develop dancers who can cope with the diverse demands of today’s choreography. Professional dancers endure a high work volume; they often dance 6-8 hours a day during rehearsal & load increases—up to 10 hours a day—with performances. As demands increase with a performance, the volume of supplemental training needs to decrease, though the intensity should be maintained or increased” (Wyon, 2010).
🏋️♀️ Class Isn’t Enough - “Studies have noted that class is inadequate to cause a training adaptation in the aerobic or anaerobic systems of dancers, & these systems (especially the aerobic) have increased demand during performances, leading to physiological adaptation” (Wyon, 2010).
🏋️♀️ Tapering - “Is a technique that facilitates the reversal of training-induced fatigue without losing training adaptations” (Wyon, 2010).
🏋️♀️ “Has been used in the training of elite athletes over the past several decades” (Bartolomei et al., 2014).
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References
🔍 Bartolomei, S., Hoffman, J. R., Merni, F., & Stout, J. R. (2014). A comparison of traditional and block periodized strength training programs in trained athletes. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 28(4), 990–997.
🔍 Wyon, M. (2010). Preparing to perform. Journal of Dance Medicine & Science, 14(2), 67–72.
