Too
much aerobic training often leads to diminished strength, and too many anaerobic workouts can impair endurance.
Although too much training load can mean «too
much aerobic training,» as I'll describe below, it's much easier to create an outsize training load through anaerobic training.
Ray — Ivan will no doubted give a more in depth response than myself but I think its fairly straightforward to analyse different sports and look at how
much aerobic training is required.
I'd say you have to look at the individual to determine how
much aerobic training they need.
The difficult question is always, how
much aerobic training do you need?
We don't know how
much aerobic training a person can do before they interference effect shows up (can you run 3 day a week with no interference effect?).
Not exact matches
A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University suggests combining weight
training with a low - calorie diet preserves
much needed lean muscle mass that can be lost through
aerobic workouts.
On the other hand, creatine wouldn't be of
much help for those whose
training regimen consists of cycling, running or any other type of
aerobic activity.
If you've been focusing on burst or sprint
training, metabolic circuits and not
much aerobic work for months now, you may be shifted into this state.
Running, biking, swimming and multisport events rely mostly on
aerobic training, which, when properly done, does not produce significant muscle fatigue unless the volume of
training increases too
much.
Now don't get me wrong about the cardio thing... in reality, I actually work on exercises that are
much tougher and more intense than traditional cardio... I prefer wind sprints, hill sprints, swimming sprints, speed rope jumping, etc to complement my resistance
training... all of which are more anaerobic in nature than
aerobic.
And after nearly a year of doing mostly
aerobic training, which by the way was
much more comfortable and less taxing than the anaerobic style that I was used to, my pace at 155 beats / minute had improved to a blistering 5:20 mile.
While this
training has many health and fitness benefits, doing too
much (or incorporating it too soon after starting a new exercise regimen) can impair the
aerobic system.
I was sticking to your
aerobic training principles but recently haven't had
much time to fit in any running biking during the week only a moderate basketball
training session.
In fact, we can enhance exercise endurance, or
aerobic capacity, by as
much as 25 % through
training.
Developing
aerobic endurance means that you're
training your body to sustain some level of activity for a prolonged period of time, (typically 30 minutes if not
much more), and you're utilizing fat as a fuel source rather than glucose (sugar) or some other energy source.
I would like to personally thank you and ask if there is anyone in Adelaide South Australia (and or Australia) or any books that can tie my
training (now both
aerobic and anaerobic) together in accordance with my goals Thanks so
much again and best wishes
My point is that your
aerobic base gains will be a product of how
much more you are
aerobic training than before.
If a person starts building up
much bodyfat or feels sluggish this
aerobic type
training is also helpful.
For example a defensive lineman in the NFL, probably needs some
aerobic training but you don't want to spend too
much time developing that system at the detriment of their power development.
So there's plenty of opportunities for specific muscle groups to be
trained aerobically at their local
aerobic maximum while the overall
aerobic demand is
much lower.
Since so
much of the benefit in resistance
training, especially for untrained individuals, is the neuroendocrine response, I would rather see a study where they compared
aerobic training with a resistance
training that included major barbell movements (bellow - parallel squat, shoulder press, bench press, deadlift) and maybe some type of vertical or horizontal pull (pull - ups or row).
So, any downturn in your
aerobic speed (at a heart rate below your
aerobic threshold) is a direct indicator that your
aerobic base is either fatigued or in decline, meaning that your body is at the moment that
much less capable of absorbing the stresses of high - intensity
training.
A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University suggests combining weight
training with a low - calorie diet preserves
much needed lean muscle mass that can be lost through
aerobic workouts.
The reason I cite all of these components is to say that by
training the
aerobic system, you are rounding out the body and the body's capabilities to a
much higher degree than a lot of people think.
Climb Mount Everest, do an Ironman triathlon, or do whatever reason you're doing this
aerobic exercise is so I wouldn't worry too
much about something like low to normal hematocrit or hemoglobin levels or low red blood cell size if you're kinda testing yourself in the midst of your
training and it's not during a taper or a rest period, one would expect those numbers to kinda be higher up.
Having developed a strong skill base and
aerobic base, your strength
training will «take»
much more quickly and readily.
I've gotten pro hockey players to
train their
aerobic system and it makes them
much better anaerobic athletes on the ice for their 20 - 40 second shifts.
Obviously
training for an Ironman is going to involve
much more
aerobic activity (and
much less anaerobic) than if you are
training for a 5K trail run.
Problem is, most people
train anaerobic way too
much and many
train more anaerobic than
aerobic.
Aerobic training simply doesn't do
much for the body.
Hi Aaron — I actually agree with a lot of what you say, though you can
train your
aerobic system
much more than what you're making it out to be.
But as as Lydiard said Anaerobic conditioning is important but too
much will ruin the good condition
aerobic training has built up.
But saying
aerobic training doesn't do
much for the body I can't disagree with more with.
The problem with
training the
aerobic system at a high intensity is that this typically means too
much stress for the body to handle.
Once the base
training phase is accomplished then the athlete can begin to push higher weights for greater reps but always using a LSW prior to prime the muscles for using as
much aerobic capacity as possible.
And it can happen if you're doing too
much aerobic and not incorporating sufficient anaerobic endurance or strength into your
training.
I run Spartan Races and though I have seen great improvement over the past year, I believe I have been
training far too
much anaerobic and too little
aerobic.
but, given the fact that at the gym i do
aerobic and anaerobic activities (weight lifting) i thought that for me, the amount of carbs that you guys suggest (less than 20 grams per day) is too low... my
training sessions last at least 2 hours and i think that is a big factor when it comes to glicogen depletion... i mean, probably, at the end of a long
training session i have no carbs left at all, i guess... and after the session the carbs i eat are (for dinner) 17 grams of carbs contained in the milk (350 ml) shaked with the powder proteins... i also don't eat
much fat... in fact my nutritional regime has 1300 - 1400 kcal per day... what do you think about it?
High intensity workouts tend to be predominately anaerobic as is
much of strength
training due to various Type II muscle fibers being utilized and developed rather than Type I
aerobic fibers.
Indeed, muscle fiber type adaptations do not even differ very
much between strength
training and
aerobic exercise (Farup et al. 2014).