Training article - For everyone!

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I really enjoyed this article and hope you like it too. Coach T. www.pponline.co.uk/.../0952.htm
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  • You didn't like that one. You get it wrong though, which doesn't help. In essence, the workout is 400 on 6min, 6min active recovery then 300 on 6min then 6min active recovery then 200 on 6min etc.... And yes he definitely agrees with this set, at page 430 of the book, the section that deals with how to build a productive aerobic capacity set. In fact Fortress, training for developing aerobic capacity is extremely simple. Takes two minutes to get to your max o2 consumption, then you'll have a lot of difficulty staying there for more than 3-4 minutes. Nope, don't like that workout (for me personally). I haven't checked, but I'm not sure you mentioned all the active recovery before. Still, aren't you repeating that set 5x? And the 50 was "dessert"? Seems like an odd sprinter set to me. And I'm just wondering if elite sprint specialists really do it ...
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  • You didn't like that one. You get it wrong though, which doesn't help. In essence, the workout is 400 on 6min, 6min active recovery then 300 on 6min then 6min active recovery then 200 on 6min etc.... And yes he definitely agrees with this set, at page 430 of the book, the section that deals with how to build a productive aerobic capacity set. In fact Fortress, training for developing aerobic capacity is extremely simple. Takes two minutes to get to your max o2 consumption, then you'll have a lot of difficulty staying there for more than 3-4 minutes. Nope, don't like that workout (for me personally). I haven't checked, but I'm not sure you mentioned all the active recovery before. Still, aren't you repeating that set 5x? And the 50 was "dessert"? Seems like an odd sprinter set to me. And I'm just wondering if elite sprint specialists really do it ...
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