Transcribed from video:
– So why should we strategize in training? Because the contention of a lot of people is, “Well, if I’m strategizing and training, the intensity “is lower, surely from lower intensity “I’m not going to get the benefit.” But remember this law of specificity. That if we want to train a certain energy system, the best way to do it is to train around that energy system. If you want to push your anaerobic threshold higher, you need to train around that anaerobic threshold. So, strategizing and training, will train the correct energy systems. If you always go out too hard, if you’re always this guy here, you’re always going too hard at the start. All you’re going to train is your fast, aggressive energy systems. You’re not going to train any of that middle stuff where you can maintain a seven out of ten for 20, 25, 30 minutes. So if you’re always going hard, you might as well be doing three minute workouts and only three minute workouts as part of your training. You’ll become a very one-dimensional athlete in terms of the energy systems that you are using and it terms of your competencies over different time domains. You’re never strategizing training because you want to improve your self awareness of your ability. We touched on this a few times with people. You need to know what you’re capable of. You need to know what your seven out of 10 is. You need to know that you can maintain a minute twenty per round. Cause if you don’t practise this skill, when you need it in competition, you can’t pull it out. You don’t know what sort of paces you can sit at. Pacing is a skill. And like any skill, pacing needs to be practised.
