Crushing Iron Podcast #373
Do you understand the purpose behind your training blocks? Do you recognize progression even when your numbers don’t show it? Today, the physiology of getting stronger and faster and how it’s all baked into your training plan. How to balance intensity with volume, and how training blocks should seamlessly overlap along with the psychology of repeating the same workout and why it’s so good for your training.
Topics:
- Chattanooga 70.3 and heat
- Happy and Healthy Baseline
- Base Phase and Build Phase
- Addressing specific parts of a discipline
- Specific Stimulus
- How Running and Cycling Blocks should mesh together
- Training Shouldn’t Start over each year
- How most athletes stunt their development
- Looking at your total athlete profile
- Why Ironman over-books entries
- It’s really fun to get faster
- It’s not just about training more
- Reality vs. Best interests of the athletes
- Hot, cold, hilly, flat?
- It’s all about where you start
- The tight rope of racing vs. non-racing
- Allocating Stress in training
- When to lower volume and up intensity
- Creative workouts may mean “random”
- The psychology of repeating the same workouts
- Athletes crave familiarity
- Why you shouldn’t “always” see improvements
- How to know if your legs are adapting
- Applying appropriate load is the number one job
- How to recognize your improvement when it’s not obvious
- When you need a workout smoothie
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