The answer seems to be too much stress on the adrenal system due to too
much anaerobic training and a few other things....
The only thing that makes me run poor is too
much anaerobic training.
It's all about balance, and plenty of people do way too
much anaerobic training (both via strength and HIIT) and endurance athletes tend to do the exact opposite.
Phil said that I was doing too
much anaerobic training, too much speed work, too many high end / high heart rate sessions.
Not exact matches
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.
The adaptations caused by
anaerobic training are similar to the traditional high volume endurance
training but at
much lower
training volumes.
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 frustration is that Phil doesn't seem to provide any guidelines on when to switch to
anaerobic training, and if you do the
anaerobic training, how
much is too
much?
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.
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.
But as as Lydiard said
Anaerobic conditioning is important but too
much will ruin the good condition aerobic
training has built up.
This excess
anaerobic syndrome is the same one that many link with chronic, damaging «cardio» as discussed in Part I. Most
train too
much, too hard, and since the majority of us aren't professional athletes, we don't get to rest and recover as
much as we'd like.
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?
Too
much aerobic
training often leads to diminished strength, and too many
anaerobic workouts can impair endurance.
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.