This guest post was written by Dennis Heenan, creator of
Anaerobic Threshold Training (AT2).
Not exact matches
Just like HIIT, Fartlek
training is a little tough on the body, but can significantly improve your speed and your
anaerobic threshold.
Training regularly at or near the
anaerobic threshold is only going to cause fatigue, inflammation, breakdown and injury — so that's best left to bring together only on a race day performance.
Many activities can qualify as aerobic
training, as long as the athlete's heart rate stays elevated, but below their
anaerobic threshold (or the heart rate / line where you stop utilizing oxygen for exercise).
I would say that most / all would not reference
training specific muscles fibers as the reason for doing those workouts — likely it would be explained in terms of VO2max, lactate
threshold, running economy, aerobic, and
anaerobic.
If you want that then that's fine, but if you wan na
train at the
threshold between aerobic and
anaerobic (meaning at muscles MAF) you have to lower the BPM, getting it lower than the official MAF HR.
Training under low carbohydrate conditions is beneficial in training the body to more readily burn fat, and increasing the threshold where anaerobic metabolism must
Training under low carbohydrate conditions is beneficial in
training the body to more readily burn fat, and increasing the threshold where anaerobic metabolism must
training the body to more readily burn fat, and increasing the
threshold where
anaerobic metabolism must kick in.
Since High Intensity Interval
Training produces equivalent improvements in vo2max,
anaerobic threshold, aerobic power, and other long - distance biomarkers without ever actually going the distance.
F&H show 124 bpm as being the
threshold between
anaerobic and aerobic
training.
Since we all have a
threshold heart rate after which we quickly climb into
anaerobic work, even a few BPM can mark the difference between successful aerobic
training and something else entirely.
That said, let's say that it turns out that the 180 - Formula does predict your aerobic
threshold relatively closely, and that you've been doing the bulk of your
training at
anaerobic intensities.
I've always understood MAF heart rate to represent precisely this
threshold — i.e., don't go above it else you'll be
training your
anaerobic engine rather than building up capacity for distance races such as marathons.
What I should tell you is that it's really important to «keep your slow runs slow and your fast runs fast,» meaning that you want to be very sure that adding those 5 BPM isn't crossing the
threshold over into
anaerobic function and producing a slightly different (but significantly so)
training stimulus than the one you want from your aerobic
training.
Using HIIT and
training our body close to its
anaerobic limit, we improve our ability to remove lactate more effectively, pushing back the
anaerobic threshold.