A lot of amateur endurance athletes will hear about elite coaches or athletes saying things like "quality over quantity" or "less is more" and not realize that

A lot of amateur endurance athletes will hear about elite coaches or athletes saying things like "quality over quantity" or "less is more" and not realize that the context of those comments is something like: "I was training 40 hours a week but I realized if I did better if I dropped it to 30 hours a week with more specificity or harder hard days". They then use that to justify not doing more than their comparatively tiny workload, which is psychologically natural since you don't want to do more! But until you get up to the point where more is too much, which is usually more than you imagine, more is usually more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ48AE3TOI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ48AE3TOI