shirtboy2022 wrote:
exactly, the premise of this thread has been most ppl that are seeking performance gains have a sustainability issue in their training, not a top end limitation
this is a management system as much as anything because whatever system ppl use to manage stress in their training (hr, rpe, lactate, phases of the moon) we are all human and this still imperceptibly slips away because of stress, breaks, optimism, life.
This setup is an attempt to simplify the natural tendency to overthink the elements of building endurance gains and give ppl a blueprint for a boring distillation of a sustainable stress/response model
It's hard to argue with this. I do think there is definitely some fine tuning required, you can read deep in the thread for that. Perhaps the what and the why sirpoc talked about. I think it's probably important to have a grasp on that, before you dive in.
Once you understand all that (book?), then it's probably unlikely I would imagine people bother asking these questions. I see the biggest problem as people coming along and saying "well I like this aspect of my training, I'm going to keep it". Already, you have basically failed to understand unfortunately, this isn't about what you want, but more about what you need. I don't think people , I include myself in this, like to hear just about everything I ever did was probably sub optimal.
Pure luck from a friend I discovered this thread and the tide has turned and I'm a better runner than I was for the first few years of my 40s. College PRs are obviously long gone but a year training like this and I can outrun 35 year old me. I'll take it.
But I certainly found it hard to shake the want or need to still pile on the pressure some weeks. It almost feels like cheating, training like this as the gains will still come but I never feel in pieces.
A good book on this just compounds the thread. I certainly wouldn't baulk at paying the dude back some money for a 6-pack . I wouldn't be shocked if in 5 years for hobby joggers, this is the gold standard starting point. Maybe it doesn't work for everyone, but it's a helluva good starting point if you had to pick one.