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The method

Concurrent training is not two programmes running side by side. It is one programme that has decided, in advance, what gives way when the week gets heavy.

Principles6
Parameters a plan states6
Written intoevery plan and every amendment

Parameters an APEC plan states

Phase prioritySession orderInterference windowWeekly load distributionDeload ruleReview cadence

The method

Priority before volume

Every phase states which quality leads it. That single decision governs session order, where the hard days fall, and which sessions are protected when something has to be cut. A phase without a stated priority is a set of sessions in a calendar, and it is the most common reason a hybrid plan stops progressing.

Interference is a variable, not a verdict

Endurance work can reduce the adaptation to strength work. How much depends on the modality, the proximity of the two sessions, the duration and the total load. Because it is a variable, it is planned: the spacing between competing stimuli is a number in the document, not whatever the day allowed.

Load is written before it is lived

Weekly load is distributed against the horizon the athlete actually has, with progression and deload rules written before the block starts. A plan that only escalates has no mechanism for absorbing a bad week, and a bad week always arrives.

The easy day is a prescription

Easy is a load with a ceiling, written down, not the absence of instruction. It is what makes the hard days repeatable. Athletes who train hard most days are usually training medium every day.

Evidence, then adjustment

Adjustment rests on what was actually trained: the log, the response, and the constraints that changed. A plan amended from memory cannot be audited later, and a plan nobody can audit cannot be corrected.

Everything is written

The programme, the reasoning and every amendment live in one document the client keeps. It is what makes the work reviewable by the athlete, by a coaching staff, and by us at the next cycle.

What the reasoning produces

Fig. 01, one weekBuild phase, week 3 of 6
An illustrative week from a build phase, showing how a plan is written.
DaySessionPrescriptionRule
MonLower strengthSquat, 4 x 4, RPE 7Leads the day
TueEndurance, easy50 min, zone 2Ceiling, not a target
WedUpper strengthPress and pull, RPE 7-
ThuEndurance, threshold4 x 6 min24 h from Fri lift
FriLower strengthDeadlift, 3 x 3, RPE 8Phase priority
SatEndurance, long90 min, zone 2Cut first if short
SunRest-Prescribed, not optional

Illustrative sample of the document format. Not a client's plan, and not a programme to follow.

Interference
Endurance work can blunt the adaptation to strength work, but the size of that effect depends on the modality, the proximity of the two sessions and the total load. It is a variable to manage, not a reason to abandon one quality.
Session order
When both qualities share a day, the one that carries the priority of the phase is trained first, and the gap between them is a planned number rather than whatever the day allows.

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  • A horizon of at least eight weeks. Below that, a plan is a schedule, not a progression.
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