The Concurrent Training Challenge - Our Reflections
The Concurrent Training Challenge: Completed it, mate.
On December 19th @thepricep and @daryl_green_ put their 11 weeks of concurrent training to the test where they looked to if they had increased strength while still training for a 4 hour marathon. It was an eventful day where new PB's were made and pain barriers were pushed. Check out Episode 2.6 for our reflections on the challenge:
- The results of the Concurrent Training challenge
- Our reflections with how the day went. Were we happy with the results?
- If we were to do the challenge again, what changes to the training would we make?
This is the last episode of Season 2. be sure to check out all of the season 2 episode and join the journey. What challenge will you set for yourself in 2021?
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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.
