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Old 04-25-08 | 12:05 PM
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alpinist
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Originally Posted by HOV
Thanks. I know you're being sarcastic but I'll take it as a positive.

Whether training to move a loaded bar 14 inches or to turn a crank 10,000 times in a session, many of the training principles are the same. Overtraining is a valid concern; the only point I was making was that soreness =! overtraining, and often times an athlete can do far more than he thinks. In lifting, it's easy to think you know your limitations, and guess what... those become your limitations.

Do all the people in the multitude of countries where bicycles are transportation mode #1 stop going places because they feel sore the day after a ride?
I never said stop because you're sore, I said give yourself a break in the beginning. Build up at first. If you ease into it, give yourself time to heal and recover between workouts, you'll increase your gain more quickly, especially for endurance sports. I know this guy is not training for the marathon, but taking a day off here and there for a couple of weeks just might give him the chance to recover that he hasn't been getting by working those muscles twice daily for weeks on end. Sure, he'll get used to it after a few weeks or months, anybody will. But he'll get used to it more quickly with some recovery in between.

I'm really not talking about overtraining at all - I'm a marathoner, and I'm looking at this from the point of veiw of endurance sports training. Yeah, I know I'm making a big deal out of a 3-mile commute...

Sometimes less is more.
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