If you trained 80 mpw followed but a week of 20, physiologically how would your body adapt as oppose to training straight 50 mpws?
If you trained 80 mpw followed but a week of 20, physiologically how would your body adapt as oppose to training straight 50 mpws?
"The body loves consistency."
Straight 50s would be much better.
I'm calling the troll here.
If you actually think that 80/20 would be good in any way, you're a moron.
In general, hard-easy (whether the alternation is by days or by weeks) is a peaking routine. If you're in a building phase, 50/50 is probably better. In the latter part of the competitive season, it's possible that you'd benefit more from something akin to 80/20--that concept, anyway, if not those precise numbers.
In the heart of his season, I remember that Jim Ryun--who ran *long* track seasons--might get ~100 miles one week, then lighten to ~40 miles the next (possibly racing on both weekends). However, his building phase was typically 100+, so not the same as the hypothetical situation you posed.
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