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154. Spicy Hot Takes, Long-Term Training Studies, and Protein Powders!

Some Work, All Play

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Long-Term Development of Training Characteristics and Performance Determining Factors in Elite Slash International and World-Class Endurance Athletes

A systematic review that just came out in sports medicine looked at 17 peer review studies after screening 16,000 of these. They found a nonlinear year-to-year increase in training volume for most of the athletes but then resulted in a subsequent plateau. It usually takes about 10 to 15 years of focus training to build up like this and then often in athletes late 20s for these world-class athletes they plateaued with those numbers usually being 500 to 900 hours per year depending on the sport.

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