Transcribed from video:
– The biggest mistake is that they’re trying to use an energy system, energy systems, that’s too intense for the for the time domain of the session that they’re trying to do. So let’s say you’ve got an 800 metre run. They try and use purely fast glycolysis, which you might use for a 400, for an 800. What happens? Their body is filled with-
– [Audience] Hydrogen ions.
– Hydrogen ions, and they crash. Okay? This is the biggest problem. Maybe they’re trying to use this when it should be this. Maybe they’re trying to use this when it should be this. They use an inappropriate energy system. Now obviously if we can push that threshold higher, we have a higher yield, we can preform at a higher rate. Remember we talked about that yesterday. If you can run an 800 metre at a pace that someone else is doing 400, because your anaerobic threshold is higher, you will preform better than them. They try to use an energy system that’s too intense for the workout that they’re doing. As a result, they reach a threshold, a point between the two energy systems, and the byproduct of the energy system inhibit their ability to stay in that system. Therefore they hit the wall and intensity, and therefore their output drops. Imagine that I’m in a car and I drive that car into a wall and it crushes the bonnet of the car. I’ve hit the wall, literally. It then takes a lot of work to repair that car, a lot of work to repair that car. If I were to stop a thousandth of a millimetre before that wall, the car is completely unscratched. %100 fine, and I can reverse out drive away and be absolutely fine. A centimetre more, and my bonnet has been crushed by a centimetre, the entire front of the car. That wall is your threshold, if you hit that threshold, you’re in trouble, you can’t recover from it. Same thing when you’re exercising, when you hit that point that I’ve gone too hard, it’s too late then. This is the problem, using an energy system that’s too intense for the length of that workout.
