PEAKS ON A DATE
Performance
- You're training for a date on a calendar, and general fitness won't peak for it.
- Strength you built in the off-season disappears once the season starts.
- Power shows up in the gym and not on the field.
Most six-week programs assume you have six weeks to spare with nothing on the calendar. Athletes don’t. This one is built around a date: a season opener, a combine, a meet. Everything in it is sequenced backward from that date, not forward from day one.
Base strength first, power conversion second, sport-specific loading third, then a taper so you peak on the day that matters instead of the Tuesday before it.
Who this is wrong for
If you don’t have a date, this program will feel aimless. General fitness or functional strength will serve you better without a taper week you don’t need. And if your hips are still finding their footing, start there. Power built on an unstable hinge is power that gets hurt, not power that transfers.
WEEK BY WEEK
The six weeks
- 01
Establish Baselines
Force output, sprint mechanics, and jump numbers, recorded before anything else, because the retest in week 6 is the whole point of the program.
- 02
Build the Base
Heavy, low-velocity strength work. This is the least exciting week and the one most athletes skip, which is why most athletes plateau.
- 03
Convert to Power
The same lifts, now moved fast. Strength without speed doesn't transfer, and this is the week that turns one into the other.
- 04
Sport-Specific Loading
Movement patterns matched to your sport's actual demand, not a generic athletic-performance template.
- 05
Peak and Taper
Volume drops, intensity holds, so you show up to week 6 fresh instead of fried.
- 06
Retest and Compete
The week 1 numbers, retested, plus an in-season maintenance plan so six weeks of work doesn't evaporate in the first month of the season.