Paotle
Level 4 Valued Member
Hi everyone,
I have a question about the training modalities according to my own "genetic" heritage. I read a lot about A&A and alactic training. In high school, I was a sprinter and I trained a lot with long rest between sprints. So those protocols are not really new for me.
Since I was a child, I was always very bad at endurance sport, but good at speed/power sports. My grandfather, my father and my sister have the same abilities (bad endurance/good speed). Even if we train a lot in endurance, we will never be good at it. I can remember that I was the quickest at the 100m at the high school, but was litteraly burned out after one hour of running and finishing after the untrained girls. I am not bad at hiking, but it takes long to recover. It is impossible to do multiple days hiking with lot of climbing.
Because I wanted to be a complete athlete, during years, I tried to train my endurance (LISS, HIIT), it works a little bit, but the recovery after each workout is very long and taxing for the body and mind (headaches, unmotivated, irritable). For exemple, I have bad sleep only after doing one hour of LSD (below 120 bpm), and if i do HIIT I can have insomnia for all night even if I work out at 6:00 in the morning. For exemple, when I did a maximum heart rate test at 6:00 am, I had bad sleep during 2 nights. I'm not overweight (180cm, 75 kgs), nor do I have diabetes or another metabolic conditions. It really feels my body cannot handle too much effort.
In my inner self, I really enjoy biking or hiking (being outdoors, sweating, breathing...), but it really kills me and I cannot enjoy it anymore because I know what will happen after it.
I know that cardio has a lot of health benefits, but the lack of sleep and the burnout feeling following these workouts is worse than the benefits.
First question is: Do you experience the same recovery problem after mild-moderate LISS?
Second question: Is it better to train only according to our genetics (so speed/power for me) and removing the problematic protocoles (endurance for me)? Or can training against our genetic have advantages? Is it better to be a complete athlete to the detriment of recovery and sleep?
Third question: Could A&A protocols without specific endurance training (HIIT or LISS) have sufficient cardio health benefits?
Best,
I have a question about the training modalities according to my own "genetic" heritage. I read a lot about A&A and alactic training. In high school, I was a sprinter and I trained a lot with long rest between sprints. So those protocols are not really new for me.
Since I was a child, I was always very bad at endurance sport, but good at speed/power sports. My grandfather, my father and my sister have the same abilities (bad endurance/good speed). Even if we train a lot in endurance, we will never be good at it. I can remember that I was the quickest at the 100m at the high school, but was litteraly burned out after one hour of running and finishing after the untrained girls. I am not bad at hiking, but it takes long to recover. It is impossible to do multiple days hiking with lot of climbing.
Because I wanted to be a complete athlete, during years, I tried to train my endurance (LISS, HIIT), it works a little bit, but the recovery after each workout is very long and taxing for the body and mind (headaches, unmotivated, irritable). For exemple, I have bad sleep only after doing one hour of LSD (below 120 bpm), and if i do HIIT I can have insomnia for all night even if I work out at 6:00 in the morning. For exemple, when I did a maximum heart rate test at 6:00 am, I had bad sleep during 2 nights. I'm not overweight (180cm, 75 kgs), nor do I have diabetes or another metabolic conditions. It really feels my body cannot handle too much effort.
In my inner self, I really enjoy biking or hiking (being outdoors, sweating, breathing...), but it really kills me and I cannot enjoy it anymore because I know what will happen after it.
I know that cardio has a lot of health benefits, but the lack of sleep and the burnout feeling following these workouts is worse than the benefits.
First question is: Do you experience the same recovery problem after mild-moderate LISS?
Second question: Is it better to train only according to our genetics (so speed/power for me) and removing the problematic protocoles (endurance for me)? Or can training against our genetic have advantages? Is it better to be a complete athlete to the detriment of recovery and sleep?
Third question: Could A&A protocols without specific endurance training (HIIT or LISS) have sufficient cardio health benefits?
Best,