Some items we discussed in the podcast this week are:

𝕎𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕒 𝕕𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪 𝕝𝕚𝕞𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖?

An athlete who has difficulty delivering oxygen to tissue because they indiscriminately contract muscle on given tasks. They end up carrying too much systemic tension - even at light weight or low wattage - and their heart and lungs cannot overpower that resistance and allow blood flow to occur optimally.

𝕎𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕤𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕒 𝕕𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪 𝕝𝕚𝕞𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖?

Interestingly, our strongest, most powerful, and most “jacked” looking athletes are delivery limited. The adaptations they have from training help them lift #AllTheWeights and look ripped, come at the cost of high delivery demands.

These athletes report “blowing up” in high rep, low intensity work more often than the other 2 limitations we spoke about before.

𝕎𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕡𝕚𝕥𝕗𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕘𝕣𝕒𝕞𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔻𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪 𝕃𝕚𝕞𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝔸𝕥𝕙𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕤?

This can get tricky. These athletes are hyper-responders to strength and power work. Even minimal weight training can cause them to add mass. Since they are not bodybuilders, this isn’t always a good thing.

They also adapt differently to traditional “aerobic work.” Because they over-contract muscle (relatively), their aerobic work can often turn into blood flow restriction training unintentionally.

For other athletes a 5k row might be easy aerobic work. For these, we might utilize speed “wavelets” that gave them drastically underpace for a few hundred meters then slowly build to our desired pace and then back off again. Otherwise they just row 5k with their muscles acting like light tourniquets. Aka NOT what they need.

Take a listen to hear us discuss these topics & many more! Then us know what you think!

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