Steve Magness is back on The Coach Up to discuss the nuances of doing "intense" or "all-out" workouts. Since the explosion of High Intensity Interval Training, there has been much discussion about how to use maximally difficult efforts in training plans. But a lot of that discussion misunderstands the complexities of fatigue and how it's best deployed as a stimulus. Steve explains how to know if you're working too hard, what the risks are, and how to think about stressing your body in such a way that it goes into "grow and adapt" mode not "protect" mode.

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