Appreciate all the advice and insights from everybody. This is particularly intriguing - I’m guessing it wouldn’t work the same way with a lightly loaded Oly bar because of the accelerated eccentric lowering phase followed by the rapid reverse of direction (versus the eccentric lowering of the bar would act different). I have several RKB kettlebells already and I think my lightest is around that range. Excited to try this (and others’ recommendations above)!
For me, it’s more the death march variety. 50k I’ll shoot for top 50% overall and 50mi+ the goal becomes merely finishing.
My mind and spirit like to run long, but my body does not like it - Ha! And it has to be backcountry single track trail systems or it’s a no-go from the start. Nutrition and fueling have been my kryptonite resulting in groin cramping and calf cramping later in the races. Thanks for the help!
That someone was famed former Yankees catcher and manager Yogi Berra, and it’s spot on because that’s my profession - Ha! High performance psychology professional within professional baseball. What a surprisingly fitting quote at the end of your guidance! Thanks for the thoughts and you all are giving me hope that I can have most of it as a well-programmed and disciplined generalist.
You can certainly train for both and progress at both.
Yes... this much is true.
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We will have to agree to disagree on this one.Soreness
Soreness occurs primarily when a new exercise is performed with a load that is too much.
it is counter productive to training.
"Repeated Bout Effect"
Repeated Bout Effect: Why You No Longer Get Sore - iWannaBurnFat.com
The repeated bout effect is why most people no longer feel sore after they train consistently. But is this harmful, is being sore after training desired?
"In essence, the repeated bout effect describes how your body gets used to the muscle-damaging response produced by strength training."
The key to ensuring little to no soreness occurs is start the new exercise off with a very light load and progressively increase it over the following weeks. In other words, it is more effective to start of with a very light load rather than choosing the wrong load; when many individual do.
By starting off with a very light load, individual are able to make faster progress. Soreness is akin to a "Speed Bump" in the road; requiring individual to slow down. as...
"Research consistently shows that being sore suppresses training performance. One 2017 study found that a high degree of muscle damage directly interferes with strength performance and reduces joint range of motion
100% the last thing you want to do is fall into that deadzone that moderate intensity breeds. This goes back to the 80/20 principle which works for so many disciplines.
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Thanks - This is really prescriptive and clear. I’m excited to start putting it all into practice!
My Garmin Fenix would agree. I go a little too hard on a light day and it labels my efforts as “unproductive” and I go a little too easy on a hard day and Garmin provides me the same “unproductive“ workout label. What a techno-slap in the face!?!? Shut up Garmin. But you’re totally right - Thanks!
Thanks! If there’s one thing I’ve learned at 47 with currently sore hips and chronic plantar fascia pain is that my body is smarter than me, as long as I listen to it. This was a major mistake I made until recently when my body said “no more” and shut me down for days and weeks.Soreness
Soreness occurs primarily when a new exercise is performed with a load that is too much.
it is counter productive to training.
"Repeated Bout Effect"
Repeated Bout Effect: Why You No Longer Get Sore - iWannaBurnFat.com
The repeated bout effect is why most people no longer feel sore after they train consistently. But is this harmful, is being sore after training desired?
"In essence, the repeated bout effect describes how your body gets used to the muscle-damaging response produced by strength training."
The key to ensuring little to no soreness occurs is start the new exercise off with a very light load and progressively increase it over the following weeks. In other words, it is more effective to start of with a very light load rather than choosing the wrong load; when many individual do.
By starting off with a very light load, individual are able to make faster progress. Soreness is akin to a "Speed Bump" in the road; requiring individual to slow down. as...
"Research consistently shows that being sore suppresses training performance. One 2017 study found that a high degree of muscle damage directly interferes with strength performance and reduces joint range of motion
Newbie question to this forum and admittedly I didn’t search the forum so hoping not to get flamed for it...
I had an old grad school buddy ask me to do his podcast and he asked me about the body’s governor, and I was like “what?” But after some research, I realized that, yes, our body is designed to protect us from over-strain, over-exert, and over-extend, and speaking from strictly a head and heart perspective, it seems the best in the world teach themselves how to ride the redline in training and competition, and to actually push slightly into the red zone without blowing the engine in competition. I invited ultrarunning legend David Horton to speak with our rookies one fall, and he said “there’s no such thing as overtraining. And the world’s best train on the verge of injury. It’s the only way you learn where your limits lie.” The physically trained sport scientist within me was like “eek!” And the mentally trained sport scientist within me was like “Hell yeah!”
Thanks - This is interesting, and I find myself realizing that when I think I’m doing it right, I’m muscle sore (soft tissue). When I start speeding up and moving too soon and being recklessly progressive in my programming, I become joint sore. And that’s where I’ve had my issues. So, this is helpful to pursue some early-on muscle soreness without falling into the trap of chronic joint soreness.
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