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253: The Physiology of Base Season—with Dr. Iñigo San Millán

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The Base Season of Building Blocks of Days

I've always been a big believer in the base season of building blocks of days. You have three days where maybe you do some threshold work one day, and then you have two longer days,. And it's the accumulation of three days that builds a fatigue. So I like to build like one or two easy days, but also, yeah, it's just like if you throw like a proper session of zone two... Over time, that causes fatigue, right? So you need to stay back in recovery. This is part of that monitoring also that we do with athletes as well. We do a plot analysis because I look at different parameters, and I can see how well an athlete is sim

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