Vern’s actually been saying this for as long as I’ve known him so this viewpoint isn’t new. Without speaking for Vern, I think much of this viewpoint is due to the fact that Vern largely works with team sports now and he’s also come to understand the role that drugs played in the inception of the original periodization research.
On a related aside, I tend to look at Bompa’s work (primarily speaking of the widely read and published stuff) as like high school chemistry. For the most part everything makes sense and things are clear cut and easily defined. The reality is that things are often more like college or post graduate chemistry…full of exceptions to everything that was learned previously. And while the high school stuff is absolutely fundamental to be able to have any understanding of the college chemistry, you quickly realize that it’s fairly basic. I think this is intentionally so in the books because it’s trying to teach the underlying concepts and I recommend his books to everyone. I’ve corresponded with Tudor on a couple occassions many years ago and his training theory suggestions were quite helpful and seemed beyond what was in the books.
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