This will be one of those weird self-indulgent personal prattling pieces. It represents the 6 weeks of my life before moving to Salt Lake City to pursue speed skating. This is the most absurd training I have ever done.
Let’s Talk About Overtraining
I suppose the point of this piece is probably a bit of a reaction to when people make claim about trainability/overtraining/the ability to adapt to “anything” or whatever and are basing this on their own short-term training experiences.
Because the fact of the matter is that you can get by on youth and stupidity for quite some time, and a truly insane amount of training can be handled for short periods. It’s when folks try to stretch out those insane amounts of training in the long-term that they tend to break. Sometimes they even learn from those experiences although that usually takes a few years.
This fact, the ability for the body to handle stupid levels of training for short periods, has actually been a frequent problem when researchers have tried to examine short-term overtraining. … Keep Reading