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26
Oct
Entry #044: Detraining: What You Lose, How Fast, and What Sticks
Take three weeks off and something strange happens. The hills feel steeper, your heart rate runs higher at the same
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23
Oct
Snippet #041: How Sauna Heat Expands Blood Plasma and Supports Endurance
Repeated post-exercise heat exposure expands plasma volume, the fluid portion of blood that carries red cells and nutrients.
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19
Oct
Entry #043: Easy, Hard, or In Between: How Endurance Athletes Split a Training Week Across Intensity Zones
A coach I trained under years ago kept a worn spiral notebook in which he logged every session his athletes
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16
Oct
Snippet #040: Why the Same Training Produces Such Different Results
Give hundreds of sedentary adults the same 20-week aerobic program and the spread of outcomes is striking.
In the
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14
Oct
OpenLab #012: The Same Hour, Twice: Norm Alvis on Five Hour Records and the Ninety-Eight Days Between Two of Them
Same rider, same velodrome, same event, ninety-eight days apart. The one thing Norman Alvis changed was the coach, and the confounds are as large as the finding.
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12
Oct
Entry #042: The Invisible Engine: What Strength Training Really Does for Endurance Athletes
The conversation about strength training for endurance athletes used to be short. For most of the twentieth century the prevailing
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09
Oct
Snippet #039: Protecting Muscle While Losing Fat in Endurance Athletes
A sustained caloric shortfall drives fat loss, but some weight shed in a deficit can come from lean tissue rather
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07
Oct
OpenLab #011: What Fits: Norm Alvis on Four Decades of Pairing Proven Training With a Changing Life
Norman Alvis says the science is proven and the art is the fit. The evidence agrees with him more than it usually agrees with a claim that broad.
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05
Oct
Entry #041: Running Economy: The Efficiency Dimension That Separates Two Equal Engines
Put two runners side by side who share an identical ceiling for oxygen uptake, the same lactate thresholds, the same
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02
Oct
Snippet #038: Carbohydrates Refill Your Fuel Tank. Protein Repairs the Engine.
After endurance exercise, stored muscle fuel (called glycogen) is what powered you, and carbohydrate is the only nutrient that refills
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