Matchbox Ep. 113 | Maximal Vs. Marginal Training Gains
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(Kobe's famous quote is "I'm one of the greatest ever because i never get bored of the basics")
Regarding the initial convo, as soon as I started consistently hitting 12-15hrs/wk, I could definitely start to feel how essential it is to manage fatigue and recovery.
To get any more hours into my week above that 15hr theshold, I needed to be very strategic about recovery.
Not just getting rest in, but also staying on top of my nutrition so that my body is getting what it needs to get my legs back for the upcoming sessions.
I think a lot of people think of fatigue in too short a time-frame – as a matter of taking a rest day here or there.
But even though Dylan was very argumentative about this point, it was his YouTube videos where I first came to appreciate how fatigue builds up in the body over the course of weeks and months, not just days.
You obviously need to train hard to have something to recover from, but you won't have the ability to add much frequency and volume if you aren't recovering properly.
On a long enough timeline, it seems very easy to wind up perpetually malnourished and fatigued if you aren't taking care of your body when you're off the bike.
Without letting your body actually form adaptations, all that extra frequency and volume just becomes junk miles.
Unless I'm missing something. Maybe over training has just fried my brain
is that lightning mcqueen in your background?
riding harder toward the end of the ride is important for my marginal again. for example, i was able to reduce the duration of my 3 hr ride by 5 min. Then, i rode 5 min longer on my next ride. ty
will you start uploading each matchbox episode on this channel now?