[Sugarzaza]

ריפ על הקשר בין סיבולת/Vo2MAx לכוח.

I am saying that unless respiratory or cardiovascular fitness is compromised by some pathology, strength training provides enough improvement in VO2 max to provide all the cardiopulmonary work a healthy person needs, as well as strength and peripheral metabolic conditioning that LSD absolutely fails to provide.
--------------------------------------------------------
Your error lies in assuming that, in the absence of adequate strength and muscular bodyweight, which John seems to have, an increase in strength will not contribute to endurance, which it most certainly does. And 5s are the best way to get that strength, which is why they comprise most of our programming for athletes at that level of training advancement.
--------------------------------------------------------
תגובה טובה מאותו פורום
I think there is a great misunderstanding about met-con, cardio, or aerobic training in not only the endurance communities, but even the entire fitness community, and even within the confines of CrossFit.

Aerobic/Oxidative training has real limitations. So real, that they come at the expense of other things. Strength being one of them. Doesn't matter how you cut it, no matter what studies you want to look at or who experiences it... Those who overtrain in an oxidative state are weak. Those who overtrain in shorter pathways will loose out on the oxidative end... BUT, in our research and experience it is the optimal utilization of all of this that has created a superior endurance athlete.

Strength training has been found to be one of the most important parts of starting an endurance athletes program. I know this too, that when a 5 x 5 back squat workout is applied that one of two things happens. 1) absolute misunderstanding of how a 5 x 5 BS wko should be, which is accompanied by that's all I am doing today, or 2) Absolute understanding of a 5 x 5 BS wko... Which means complete fear has set in prior to the who because the athlete now understands what strength training is.

Furthermore, you have two choices as to how to deal with longer distances. Your aerobic base is your aerobic base. Period! The only way to push it is anaerobically in conditioned individuals. You can either break yourself down with junk miles in order to build the tue up enough to deal with the longer miles, or you can strength train. The soreness that is achieved when running, or riding, or rowing longer is not a lack in aerobic conditioning... It is a lack of Strength and Conditioning.