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LOGINPolarized training: myth or magic for amateur athletes?
As regular SPB readers will already know, a solid body of evidence has accumulated over the past 15 years or so suggesting that for elite endurance athletes such as triathletes, cyclists and runners, maximum performance gains are best realized using a concept known as ‘polarized training’(1-3). The polarized approach to training proposes that endurance athletes spend a large proportion of their training time working at low-moderate intensity (ie in the purely aerobic zone – zone 1), a smaller proportion at a very high intensity (near maximum power output – zone 3) with relatively little time spent training at or near to lactate threshold (zone 2). For those unfamiliar with this concept, see table 1.
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