Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 2
On Tuesday, in Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 1 I went into some detail about how I finished my first block of endurance training and had structured my current training aiming at outdoor inline races. Today I’m going to move away from application and physiology and prattle self-indulgently a bit. Specifically, I’m going to give a race report on my first race.
Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 1
Today, and most likely Friday, I’m going to do another follow-up on that, discussing how my own training for outdoor inline training has progressed/evolved and then show you the real-world results of the training. The timing is only relevant as I completed my first race this past Saturday which is why I’m taking the break from the Overtraining series. Today I’m going to focus mostly on training physiology, Friday I’m going to prattle a bit to show you how my training ended up serving me at my first inline race in over 15 years.
Overtraining, Overeaching and all the Rest Part 6
I finished by listing a handful of common symptoms of overtraining with the list deliberately meant to demonstrate that some of the symptoms appear to be relegated to muscle adn the others to the brain or more central parts of the body. I’ll pick up there today by looking at another common distinction of overtraining ‘types’ and then look a bit more at what ’causes’ overtraining to try to tie all of this together.
Overtraining, Overeaching and all the Rest Part 5
Having finally worked through my rather tedious definition of overtraining in Overtraining and Overeaching Part 1, Part 2 Part 3 and Part 4, I want to get into a few more details and some actually applied information. Today I want to look at some more issues revolving around overtraining, specifically the idea of different ‘types’ of overtraining along with looking at a bit more physiological level to what ’causes’ it to occur. On Friday in what should be the final part, I’ll talk about some monitoring methods and tools along with some strategies to help prevent overtraining in the first place.
Overtraining, Overreaching and all the Rest Part 4
Today, finally, I want to wrap up looking at the actual definition above and then I’ll move into some more practical stuff about various methods to keep track of overtraining/overreaching, how to avoid it, that sort of thing. If I’m optimistic, I’ll wrap this up today. Who out there is willing to make a bet?
Overtraining, Overreaching and all the Rest Part 3
Having examined the details of performance decrement/underperformance syndrome in Overtraining, Overreaching and all the Rest Part 2, I want to back furhter up the definition and look at the idea of the balance between training load and recovery being the root of the issue (at least at a global level). I also want to make the point that explicit training and recovery is not all that needs to be considered here. Finally, I’ll also look at the idea of underrecovery as a bigger issue than overtraining per se.
Overtraining, Overreaching and all the Rest Part 2
In Part 1 I examined the issue of time-frame (e.g. overtraining vs. overreaching) as well as the idea of overtraining loads being specific to a given athlete. Today I want to continue examining the details of that definition, primarily by looking at the idea of what (at a global level) causes overtraining. Specifically I want to look at the idea of the balance between training load and recovery being the root of the issue; I’ll also look at the idea of underrecovery as a bigger issue than overtraining per se.
Overtraining, Overreaching and all the Rest Part 1
Since the 1980’s, when everybody tried to follow the drug-fueled training models of the Eastern Block Countries, a constant cry and fear is that of ‘overtraining’. People throw around the term in the most interesting of ways and most of those ways are incorrect. Essentially ‘overtraining’ has come to be synonymous with ‘I got kind of tired’ which is not what it means.
Supplements Part 2
In Supplements Part 1, I showed and explained my supplement heirarchy pyramid and looked at the category of General Use Supplements. Today, I’ll finish up by looking at Performance Supplements and the Esoterica Categories. Again, the list below isn’t meant to necessarily be comprehensive, there will always be very specialty use things that might have applications in very specific circumstances. Rather, it’s meant to be a broad look at products which are both research supported (in the case of performance supplements) and have the broadest application of uses for mixed sports athletes.
