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The Endurance Athlete Journey
Sometimes endurance sports can be overwhelming and confusing. Understanding the nuances of training and how to stay healthy and making progress can leave you scratching your head sometimes. On top of all that, knowing how to fuel for performance and overall fitness increases the complexity of the sport even more. The Endurance Athlete Journey podcast is your guiding light on the path to success in your endurance sports journey.
The Endurance Athlete Journey
Recovery from training and why it is important
Episode 3: Recovery from Training and Why it is Important. There is more to recovery than "resting and taking the day off". How do we know when we should do something purposeful to aid recovery? Why is recovery so important to the training process and for training adaptation? What things can we do to encourage recovery?
Here are a few other things we discuss during the podcast:
We define "Training Volume" as a 3-part equation: duration + intensity + frequency.
We discuss the Fitness-Fatigue model where the accumulation of fatigue masks fitness. Therefore, in order to observe your fitness, we must shed accumulated fatigue. This is done through the recovery process.
We talk about the four phases of training adaptation and what it means to really be "over-trained". Being over-trained is actually a rare occurrence but non-functional over-reaching and over-training is something we should be concerned about and able to identify.
We discuss that training stress is not the only type of stress that impacts training adaptation. Life stress has a major impact on our ability to build fitness and the body's ability to recover.
We talk about why our muscles get sore and what is the reason for delayed onset muscle soreness. Muscle soreness is not simply caused by mico-tears in the muscle fiber. That can be one reason but it is not the only reason why our muscles are get sore from hard training sessions.
We mention a few signs that may indicate you are under-recovered and some things you can do to aid recovery and get you back to training.
We also discuss how glycogen depletion impacts our ability to train to our full potential and why proper pre-training, intra-training, and post-training fueling is so important to the recovery process.
We hope you enjoy the podcast. Feel free to send us feedback or questions via Facebook at The Endurance Athlete Podcast Facebook group or email us at theenduranceathletejourney@gmail.com
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