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  • noun The attempt to categorize something (e.g. history) into named periods.
  • noun weightlifting Training in segments of a few weeks or months, so that training begins at lower intensity and is gradually increased to high-intensity.

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Examples

  • Researchers have long known that the way to build strength is what they call periodization: Rest days and easier days and weeks are interspersed with periods when the weights are increased.

    NYT > Home Page By GINA KOLATA 2012

  • This training process is sometimes referred to as periodization, or the managing of work/rest ratios.

    Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010

  • This training process is sometimes referred to as periodization, or the managing of work/rest ratios.

    Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010

  • This training process is sometimes referred to as periodization, or the managing of work/rest ratios.

    The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working Tony Schwartz 2010

  • As coincidence, it suggests to me that colonial periodization is still very much open to fruitful debate. back

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • In other words, rather than impose an artificial unity or foreclose particular critical options, this argument about periodization is designed to ground an expanded range of interpretive possibility, enabling discovery of the full richness of this exciting field.

    Introduction: A History of Transatlantic Romanticism 2006

  • This he does through a concept called periodization, in which nutrition and training guidance is presented to the athlete across four periods in a year: foundation, preparation, specialization, and transition.

    Long May You Run Chris Cooper 2010

  • The so-called periodization of history in particular, which has been

    PERIODIZATION IN HISTORY DIETRICH GERHARD 1968

  • It is called periodization in the muscle building world.

    Purpleocity.net 2009

  • It may even be said to have provided the model for this kind of "periodization" in academic literary study in the first place.

    Literary Study 2009

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