Health And General Life Care: [Supertraining] Re: Specificity of training adaptation

[Supertraining] Re: Specificity of training adaptation

Sunday, 20 January 2008

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John:

From a cyclist's perspective (for myself and those I train), 65% of Functional Threshold Power ("FTP" -- what one can sustain for 60min., with FTP being the base I work off of in figuring training percentages) is low and I would describe it as active-recovery level work.

Best,
Bill Black
Cumberland Foreside, Maine

----- Original Message -----
From: John Stevens<mailto:pushprogress@yahoo.com>
To: Supertraining@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Supertraining@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 11:10 AM
Subject: [Supertraining] Re: Specificity of training adaptation

This is interesting:

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> Similar metabolic adaptations during exercise after low volume sprint
> interval and traditional endurance training in humans
> Kirsten A. Burgomaster, Krista R. Howarth, Stuart M. Phillips, Mark
> Rakobowchuk, Maureen J. MacDonald, Sean L. McGee, Martin J. Gibala
> (2008)
> The Journal of Physiology 586 (1), 151-160.
[snip]
> ET consisted
> of 40-60 min of continuous cycling at a workload that elicited 65%
> [peak oxygen uptake] (mean power output 150 W) per day, 5 days per week.
[snip]
> Given the markedly lower training volume in the SIT group, these data
> suggest that high-intensity interval training is a time-efficient
> strategy to increase skeletal muscle oxidative capacity and induce
> specific metabolic adaptations during exercise that are comparable to
> traditional ET.

Here's a question for any ST members who have experience coaching or training in
"endurance" sports: are workouts at 65% VO2max to be "traditional endurance training"?
Or is that considered to be "active recovery," or an "easy day"?

I'm not in favor of what Brent Rushall has described as "institutionalized overtraining," but
if we're going to look for ways to improve on "traditional endurance training," it would
make sense to start with an accurate description of traditional endurance training.

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