All if my athletes go through a progression of training. The program cycles things for a number of reasons, the most important for sport is to avoid accommodation. Accommodation is when the exercise no longer does anything to make them better. Happens all the time, if you keep doing curls and bench everyday, eventually they don't make your chest or your arms any bigger or stronger. Things have to change, often, but not too often.
The cycles can be any number of things; hypertrophy, strength, power, speed, agility, power-endurance, endurance, strength-speed, speed-strength, corrective, just to name a few. The trick is to pick a logical sequence that fits what the athlete needs to make them better as an individual. The easy thing to do would be to force everyone, regardless of goals, previous workout history, and current state, into the same program. It would be easy to say; high intensity intervals for everyone, everyday, for every sport. The hard thing would be to assess the individual, make a real honest self assessment, triage the situation and focus on fixing the problems first. It's hard because no one, no one, wants to spend time doing things they suck at. That sucks. It's a constant cycling of things that suck!
That's athletes though. General physical fitness is different (also known as General Physical Preparedness or GPP). For the GPP athlete, constantly varried, functional movements, done at high intensity, 3x/week plus some recovery days and a steady state endurance day in there, is the absolute best thing they could be doing! So where do you want to be? GPP or athlete participating in a specific sport (that includes "CrossFit" as a sport too!)? There is no wrong answer here. It just depends on how much time you have to spend on this thing. Spend some here, you don't have some there.
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