Donovan Rebbechi wrote in message ...
Quoted message said:In article <[email hidden]>,
qTrader said:I realized after my run today how effective my routine
has become and I'm noting remarkable progress in my
fitness this year as opposed to other years. Running
less, cross-training on the bike, and resting alot more
than
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:I ever did before has completely revamped my exercise
program, and has improved my running fitness greatly
compared to other years.
It's possible that you were overtraining before. It's hard
to say much
about your
Quoted message said:"after" program without seeing the "before" program.
Most beginners make the mistake of doing their training
runs way too hard
(but
Quoted message said:still too easy to be effective for speed work). This
creates a high risk of both overtraining and injury. To run
every day, you do need to run most of
your
Quoted message said:milage at a pace that does not overly tax the muscular
system -- aerobic
running.
Quoted message said:Avoiding running is one way to avoid taxing the muscular
system, but
another way
Quoted message said:is a combination of adapting to training load and
maintaining an intensity
that
Quoted message said:doesn't leave you beaten down.
I'm now 41 and 've been running since I was 14 playing
soccer. I concur with what you say here about the mistakes
beginners make. I learned about training in the aerobic zone
a long time ago, and when I was doing alot of orienteering
races I ran nearly everyday for a number of years through my
late 20's. After that I ran recreationally for much of my
30's and in the last 5 years I've been entering some
orienteering races again, and I bike and run singletrack
trails for enjoyment. I dont run much on roads and don't do
road races anymore either because I enjoy trails. My
training before the variation I posted here was also cross-
training, but with only an occasional day off a week as
opposed to two solid days off. Everyone has different goals
and different training needs and my post was just a report
about experimenting and about something I think is hard to
learn - that recovery is the key to improvement. If there is
one thing I've learned its that.
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:past. I also have alot more power and no feelings of
overuse in my legs.
I get this just from peaking. For example, doing heavy
training for a
while,
Quoted message said:then bringing milage down. I feel more energetic on 40
miles per week than
I
Quoted message said:did before on no training at all, because I adapted to 60
then dropped to
40.
Quoted message said:
This is how you get to have your cake and eat it too.
Sure, you can
consistently
Quoted message said:do light training and this will produce fairly good results
for a while.
But
Quoted message said:adapting to heavy training and then reducing the load is
historically what
has
Quoted message said:produced some of the greatest race performances.
What you describe above is tapering, and yes, I've
experienced the same thing with that. My training is now
done at a slightly higher intensity than in the past, but
with more rest in between efforts. Actually my total
exercise time is up 20% over last year too, so what I'm
doing is not "consistently light" training. I'm not
suggesting that what I do will work for everyone, but I'm
only suggesting that one can experiment and learn from
listening to their body's ability to recover and adjust
their program accordingly.
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:In our evolutionary past, humans probably VERY rarely ran
day after day after day after day. More likely if they
were travelling they walked day after day.... To be sure
long running efforts must have been required at times,
but this would have been avoided day after day. I highly
recommend
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:reading "Protein Power Lifeplan" by Dr.s Eades, that
explains the Paleolithic approach to exercise as well as
the type of diet humans ate
in
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:the past.
Sorry, you've lost me here. I'm sure there's a good reason
that your
training
Quoted message said:protocol works *for you*, but your ambitious attempt to
come up with some
deep
Quoted message said:theory about the success of your program ignores the fact
that there's no evidence that this training protocol works
for anyone else.
Hey its just food for thought, or have you learned all you
wish to learn already? I saw this post called spam I suppose
because of my reference to a book here. Well I don't
subscribe to everything in that or any other book, but I
found that section on exercise intriguing. As a natural born
sprinter who enjoys longer distance events I have my work
cut out for me, so I'm always learning and experimenting.
I'm not trying to propose a deep theory; just sharing a
program that works for me, and suggesting that it might be
worth experimenting with for others. In all the books I've
read about exercise, recovery seems to be the thing that is
key to improvement, but is the hardest thing to optimize.
To show im not spamming the other book i'll mention a few
other ones I consider great reads here:
"Precision Heart Rate Training", Edmund R. Burke ed.
"Training Lactate Pulse-Rate" Peter G.J.M. Janssen "Slow
Burn" Stu Mittleman
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Cheers,
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