
The Benefits of Extending Your Training “Week”
Adding days to your microcycles will help you improve recovery, which can improve HIT sessions. It’s a win-win.
Adding days to your microcycles will help you improve recovery, which can improve HIT sessions. It’s a win-win.
Dr. Stephen Seiler and his daughter, an elite runner and sport science student, analyze bronze medalist Molly Seidel’s Olympic training.
If your dad were a world-class exercise physiologist like, say, Dr. Stephen Seiler, how would you train? Probably pretty effectively. In this case study of one, Dr. Seiler chats with his daughter and runner, Siren, to review her career and training methods.
Dr. Seiler and his daughter Siren talk about intensity zones, peaking and riding the wave, recovery diagnostics, strength training, pistol squat PRs, Paula Radcliffe, and the loneliness of the high-level female endurance athlete.
Adding days to your microcycles will help you improve recovery, which can improve HIT sessions. It’s a win-win.