Methods of Endurance Training: Summing Up Part 2
Ok, as is so often the case, what was meant to be a two-part article has now gotten utterly out of hand. But today’s article will finish up. In Methods of Endurance Training: Summing up Part 1 I summarized loading parameters for all of the methods I’ve discussed and looked at some of the reasons (read: misconceptions) that ‘training slow’ can actually have an end result of making you fast. Which leads me into one last digression before I make some practical recommendations for different groups.
Methods of Endurance Training: Summing Up Part 1
I’ll also make some general comments about how and why developing aerobic metabolism from the lower intensity end of things works. I’ll truly finish up on Friday by talking about the time issue and actually making some specific recommendations for both pure endurance and other athletes as well as general trainees. I’ll also give some suggested resources for different endurance sports for anybody who wants to pursue this topic in more detail.
Methods of Endurance Training Part 5: Interval Training Part 2
On Tuesday in Methods of Endurance Training: Interval Training Part 1, I defined some basic concepts regarding interval training regarding loading parameters that typically go into deciding a given interval workout. Today I want to look at some specific types of interval training but, since I’m overly wordy as usual, will save the series wrap-up for Tuesday of next week.
Methods of Endurance Training Part 5: Interval Training Part 1
Having looked at threshold training in Methods of Endurance Training Part 4: Threshold Training, I want to wrap things up by looking at interval training, since this represents the final major method by which endurance athletes (or athletes who need some form of endurance) typically train.
Methods of Endurance Training Part 4: Threshold Training
In that piece, I mentioned that sweet spot training (as conceptualized by exercise physiologist Andrew Coggan) is sort of the point where training stress per unit time peaks along with the duration of sustainability. That is, it’s an intensity that generates a lot of training stress per unit time but which can be sustained long enough to generate a strong training effect. Above that intensity and duration is severely limited, below that and you don’t get the same stress per unit time. It seems to lie for most between tempo training (aka intensive endurance training) and the intensity that would be used for the next method I want to discuss.
Methods of Endurance Training Part 3: Tempo and Sweet Spot Training
On Tuesday, in Methods of Endurance Training Part 2: Miles Build Champions, I discussed what is probably the most traditional and common of endurance development methods, to whit ‘pissing around’ at fairly low intensities for just massive durations (along with a high frequency). Before moving onto the next set of methods including both intensive endurance and sweet spot training, I want to address a few other topics of relevance to that method.
Methods of Endurance Training Part 2: Miles Build Champions
Today I want to continue by looking at some general concepts of endurance training methods focusing on the most commonly used method which is the Miles Build Champions approach to endurance development. I’ll look at other methods in Part 3 (and possibly beyond depending on how wordy I get) on Friday.
