Explaining the theory behind "peaking too early"

[TheFreshBanana]

Can someone please explain how "peaking too early" actually means.

I'm not a believer in it, solely the fact that I can't wrap my head around how peaking too early even occurs, or how it is "prevented".

If your playing good footy, then your playing good footy. Whether or not it's at the bottom or top end of the season.

So can someone please explain the theory behind this "peaking too early"?

 

[Temploar]

I guess it just means going too hard during the first half of the season, that your physically exhausted by the second half. Also opposition teams would have revealed your gameplan if you used it in full during the first half. Aka 2011.

 

[Captivating]

No team can sustain peak competitiveness for 26 weeks, so good coaching will ensure the players are playing at their best in the weeks leading into the finals and during the finals. Training regimes will be adjusted to ensure peak fitness occurs during this period.

Immature teams tend to start the season full of beans and run out of steam in the second half. Better teams start slower and build for a late season surge.

Watch Essendon and Geelong from this point onwards.

 

[mattys123]

Ask Carlton.

 

[jimmy35]

Ask Carlton.

Yeah it's always going to be a long season when you peak in round 3

 

[DThomas]

I think it's too simplistic to say that you have "peaked too early". An average team could get an easy fixture to start the season and win a bunch in a row, and then drop a bunch when they start facing the better teams. This isn't really "peaking" it's simply having the crappy teams make you look good, even though they could be employing the same game plan and be in the same form they were in the weeks prior.

There is some truth to it, (a lot of teams run out of steam towards the end with fatigue and injuries and the inevitable form slump of some players) but it just reeks of making up excuses and saying "well if we peaked at the right time then blah, blah, blah" when really your team just isn't good enough, e.g. Carlton.

 

[eddiebankbalance]

One thing I reckon Bucks is doing and that is working the chaps real hard physically. Something they may not be used to. Therefore, tapering off half way through the 2nd half of the season should see us flying home

 

[Good_Old]

I thought it was pretty self explanatory. Wherein the first half of the season you come out all guns a blazing and roll everyone but because you're playing with such drive in the first half then it's too hard to sustain in the second half of the season.

That's what I got out of the term anyway.

 

[jerry springer]

essendon have done it 2 years in a row

 

[biggiemediums]

It's a fitness thing overall. You bust your nut playing hard for 12 weeks, you're going to run out of steam.

 

[biggiemediums]

...And yes, I now realise after typing that.. bust your not was really, really the wrong wording haha!

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Pretty simple really. Finals are in September, not April.

 

[jathanas]

Endurance athletes train base, build, taper, and peak as a cycle. A performance peak can last 4-6 weeks. Footy clubs would want their players in top condition during September. I have no idea how they go about maintaining peak condition during the season.

Edit: you're at your fittest when you've trained hard and sufficiently recovered. Our sports scientists would know the magic formula about how to get a guy fit during preseason, and how to maintain and build on this condition to September. If a club goes too hard on their players without enough recovery they'll blow up. If you don't go hard enough they'll lose fitness. Glad it's not my job.

 

[unplugged]

Also if your performances as a whole group "peak early" in the season, it's much easier for opposition to read in on your game plan and figure you out nice and early... before all the real stuff that counts.

 

[coldpieswarmbeer]

I'm sorry, but I love your logic of "I don't believe it because I don't understand it"

 

[Captivating]

Thread title needs to be changed to

Explaining the theory behind "beijing too early"

 

[theroach78]

e.g. Carl...ah it's already been said.

 

[Outstanding]

Ask Carlton.

I don't think Carlton peaked early, they just got really carried away after beating Richmond, Brisbane and half a Collingwood team. Essendon on the other hand are a perfect example and I look forward to watching them slide over the next month.

 

[Hva sher a]

I do understand the concept of tapering and saving ourselves for Sept.
But given that all fitness coaches know this, why don't all teams do this. Eg in 2011 why did we start all guns blazing and basically ended spluttering to the end.

 

[Good_Old]

I do understand the concept of tapering and saving ourselves for Sept.
But given that all fitness coaches know this, why don't all teams do this. Eg in 2011 why did we start all guns blazing and basically ended spluttering to the end.

Maybe that was all a part of MM's evil plot.

 

[Markfs]

Can someone please explain how "peaking too early" actually means.

I'm not a believer in it, solely the fact that I can't wrap my head around how peaking too early even occurs, or how it is "prevented".

If your playing good footy, then your playing good footy. Whether or not it's at the bottom or top end of the season.

So can someone please explain the theory behind this "peaking too early"?

I dont know why we're wasting time on trivial questions like this. Do you believe in God? If you can't wrap your head around God, then he doesn't exist and 4 billion people can stop wasting their time on weekends worshipping some dude...