Programming for increased strength & a 4 hour marathon
How do you programme your training to improve strength and endurance concurrently?
Welcome to episode 2.2 of the Progress Theory Podcast where @thepricep and @daryl_green_ discuss their training programmes for this season's challenge. In this episode the boys cover:
- The details of their training programme for their respective challenges
- How fatigue management and structuring your week is vital for concurrent training success
- Patience is key when increasing intensity
- Do the minimal amount which you believe is necessary to improve performance. Everything else is filler which may unnecessarily increase fatigue and effect future training sessions.
- Running at a 4 hour marathon pace is a skill. Spend time there to practise and increase efficiency
- How your previous training should influence your programming decision making
How do these programmes compare to your training? Let us know in the comments and join the journey
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Mentioned in this episode:
The Science of Hybrid Training
It was originally thought that you could not effectively train for both strength and endurance at the same time because they required different adaptations which were not compatible with each other. It was claimed that ‘an interference effect’, blunted the adaptations for strength if you simultaneously trained for endurance. However, recent developments in sports which require both strength and endurance have really challenged this idea, with hybrid athletes producing impressive performances in both strength and endurance sports together. This had led scientists, coaches, and athletes to rethink what is humanly possible and suggests the interference effect is not as influential as originally thought. But what is a hybrid athlete? What is the ‘interference effect’? And how can we maximize our training to improve at the same time our strength and endurance performance? In this book, Dr Phil Price provides insight into the misconceptions surrounding strength and endurance training by distilling the past 50 years of research and drawing on the conversations he had with great scientists, coaches, and athletes on The Progress Theory podcast. This book is essential reading for hybrid athletes and coaches who are looking to understand the key training variables and their effect on the simultaneous development of strength and endurance performance.
