read your links dumbfvcks wrote:
Yes, there is more crap out there.
That study restrains the athletes from doing their best training. If you eat and drink properly you can train harder. But they simply let the sane and healthy group of athletes follow the same training schedule as the starved athletes.
And now please tell me, dimwits, when did Renato deprive his athletes from that morning tea full of sugar so that they should "burn more fat"?
Those of you who defend starvation please grab a tinfoil hat when you leave.
But also in the Italian Methodology of 20 years ago (producing Bordin, Pizzolato, Poli, Bettiol and many ladies), we used sometimes to go for long run WITHOUT using any refueling, in order to oblige the body in seeking the residual energy in some store, that normally is closed.
Similar situation we use when we go for SPECIAL BLOCKS of VOLUME (for example, in the morning 10 km in 33' + 15 km at MP (3'04" is 46'), the same in the afternoon). This means 20 km at 90% of MP + 30 km at MP in the day. In order to stimulate the body in using ALL the risources for lasting at MP, between the first and second session the athlete easts only vegetables and drinks water, without filling his tank again with carbohydrates. The final goal is to teach to the runner to use ALL the resources that he has.
That's the reason because a lot of km at low intensity, for an athlete already mature, cannot produce any effect.
What we need, is not a global very high volume,but the ability in growing, year after year, IN THE LENGTH OF THE SINGLE RUN AT HIGH INTENSITY. To increase the SPECIFIC MARATHON ENDURANCE is a physiological problem, as the athlete must change his ability in building the right fuel, using LESS percentage of glycogen and MORE percentage of fat for the same speed. We can reach this effect only using SPECIFIC SPEED for long time,not a lot of volume not stimulating the body in "scratching the bottom of the barrel".
Read more:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=2959804&page=7#ixzz2vxmFmJ00