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Oh, I post it because I wanted to know if anybody had any experiences along these lines.
by chegra84 17y ago
Oh, I post it because I wanted to know if anybody had any experiences along these lines.
- stewiecat 17y agoI have a lot of experience with this. Did three Ironman tri's (with 12 half-IM's thrown in for training) during my late 20's. While training for the first Ironman, I changed jobs to one that required a commute and a fixed "out the door" time to beat traffic. After starting this, every Friday was cold-day. I'd get so rundown from a lack of sleep, only 8 hours/night, that I'd get a cold every Friday. After knocking off for 10+ on Friday night it'd be gone Saturday. Sleep is also prominent in modern training programs. The old school train-till-you-die method of unfocused bulk mileage and little rest is gone. Nowadays endurance athletes have narrowly focused training workouts (speed work, intervals, weights, long & easy, etc) with a balance of days off and entire weeks of reduced training volume for recovery where the emphasis is put on rest so the body can rebuild and prepare for the next training cycle.
- chegra84 17y agoYou have any link to the theory behind the new trend?
- jongraehl 17y agoLyle McDonald, an expert on fitness research, mentions impaired sleep as a common cause of overtraining - http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/training/overtraining-overreaching-and-all-the-rest-part-3.html http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/training/overtraining-overr... He's long-winded but his views are definitely founded on scientific research.