The Fastest Age

Just so we can set the world record for most beatings to a dead horse... Concerning technique vs VO2 Max: Most top coaches in any sport you care to name teach technique FIRST and then work on endurance/power/speed/etc. I worked with almost every Olympic sport in my previous career in Sports Science/Medicine with the USOC and this was a constant. If your technique is good, you gain the most from the endurance/power/etc that you have available to you. You also can generally train more with less chance of injury. Dumping an Indy car engine into a Ford F-350 isn't going to make the F-350 go 200+ MPH, even though the Indy engine has about twice the horsepower of the F-350. It just isn't in the correct "shape" (and weight) for it. (Not that my wife hasn't tried to get ours to 200 MPH...) -LBJ

Just so we can set the world record for most beatings to a dead horse... Concerning technique vs VO2 Max: Most top coaches in any sport you care to name teach technique FIRST and then work on endurance/power/speed/etc. I worked with almost every Olympic sport in my previous career in Sports Science/Medicine with the USOC and this was a constant. If your technique is good, you gain the most from the endurance/power/etc that you have available to you. You also can generally train more with less chance of injury. Dumping an Indy car engine into a Ford F-350 isn't going to make the F-350 go 200+ MPH, even though the Indy engine has about twice the horsepower of the F-350. It just isn't in the correct "shape" (and weight) for it. (Not that my wife hasn't tried to get ours to 200 MPH...) -LBJ