Not exact matches
When you stop working out, you begin to lose the
aerobic gains you've
made, too.
They are
making those
gains because their
aerobic base is improving.
What you're buying is the infrastructure (
aerobic base) necessary to keep speed
gains that you
make.
After studying MAF for quite some time, i've never really seen any advice on the amount of weekly training hours required to
make aerobic gains using MAF.
And you can
make huge speed
gains by training only aerobically: Since
aerobic training is essentially training the rate at which you can provide energy to your muscles over the long - term, more
aerobic training means more speed.
If you don't curtail your weight training, what will happen is that you won't develop your
aerobic base as fast as you possibly could, but that doesn't mean you won't
make gains across the board — you will.
Pure MAF training will always
make you
gain aerobic speed faster than a combination of MAF and anaerobic.
Given the parameters laid out by the article, you would likely still
make aerobic progress while also providing strength
gains, but
aerobic gains will be slower in the measure that you include anaerobic training.
If your desire is to
gain muscle bulk, it
makes little sense to carry out long sessions of
aerobic training on the treadmill or exercise bike.