dmaxashman
Level 5 Valued Member
When your body produces energy anaerobically, for each glucose, you get 2 energy ATP. When you do it aerobically, you get 35 ATP. So using your aerobic energy system is literally 15x more efficient.
Is anaerobic training totally crazy? Why on earth would anyone want to spend time here burning themselves out and feeling tired, when they could build up their amazingly efficient aerobic system or using the super powerful ATP-PC.
For instance, a quick google search shows that in football the average play is 4 seconds. That is not even anaerobic glycolysis, that would be ATP-PC for maximum kick butt power.
The only time you need this dumb anaerobic glycolysis system is for max efforts of 30 seconds. That is totally crazy. Almost no sport that people actually care about has plays like that except for maybe UFC. Do we need to start checking people into the crazy house if they are training in intervals of max effort at 20-50 seconds?
Is anaerobic training totally crazy? Why on earth would anyone want to spend time here burning themselves out and feeling tired, when they could build up their amazingly efficient aerobic system or using the super powerful ATP-PC.
For instance, a quick google search shows that in football the average play is 4 seconds. That is not even anaerobic glycolysis, that would be ATP-PC for maximum kick butt power.
The only time you need this dumb anaerobic glycolysis system is for max efforts of 30 seconds. That is totally crazy. Almost no sport that people actually care about has plays like that except for maybe UFC. Do we need to start checking people into the crazy house if they are training in intervals of max effort at 20-50 seconds?