Endurance athletes are familiar with fatigue and muscle soreness and generally accept it as a part of the adaptation process. We’ve been taught to manage recovery rather than preemptively address the causes. But there’s a smarter, more sustainable way forward that will ultimately make you fitter with less recovery downtime along the way.
Endurance athletes frequently participate in persistently high volumes and intensities of practice to achieve a high level of performance without understanding that physiological adaptation occurs during rest periods following hard physical exertion. Learn how to maintain that key balance.
Endurance athletes are familiar with fatigue and muscle soreness and generally accept it as a part of the adaptation process. We’ve been taught to manage recovery rather than preemptively address the causes. But there’s a smarter, more sustainable way forward that will ultimately make you fitter with less recovery downtime along the way.
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Knowing your thresholds is a useful way to quantify effort and distribute your training load, but understanding what they mean and how to use them...
Polar's Sport Tester PE 2000 came out in 1982 and since then heart rate has been the standard measurement of intensity along with speed for endura...
If you want to make a physiologist wince, tell them how much "lactic acid" you felt in your muscles after a hard workout. "Lactic acid" has unfo...
The fat-burning zone is a widely misconstrued concept concerning weight loss and fat loss. In the past, endurance athletes have focused a large am...
Endurance athletes frequently participate in persistently high volumes and intensities of practice to achieve a high level of performance without understanding that physiological adaptation occurs during rest periods following hard physical exertion. Learn how to maintain that key balance.
To effectively train for an endurance event, or coach an athlete who is competing in one, accurate physiological data is key to guiding and monito...
