Thanks Scott. I did have a copy of that when I purchased Supertraining many years ago, but but no longer on this laptop. I’ll ask some of my University alumnus and see if there’s a copy I can get my hands on. I also found a suggested ME work out within the uphill athlete articles, looks brutal.
I’ll let others with more expertise weigh in, but from my experience, you won’t be able to do much more than the training program if you want to properly recover. If you’re doing the exercises as outlined, you most likely won’t have the energy or strength for extra curriculars. The heavy weeks of the base period should feel pretty intense.
With LME training, there are two very important caveats:
* Only add LME to your program after you’ve built a solid base. At a minimum, AeT should be within <10% of AnT.
* When you start adding LME, whatever base capacity you have needs to be maintained or LME will reduce your capacity rather than increase it. If you find yourself too tired to maintain your typical base volume, then you need to cut back on LME training.
Working hard is important, but getting wrecked is too much. If you feel that tired, be sure to back off.
It’s tempting to think that the deeper the hole, the better the effect, but that’s not how it works. It’s much better to use manageable loads and slowly increase them. You’ll have a longer, and much more effective, training history that way.
