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Ten Minute Tips #25: What's So Special About "Zone 2"?

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The Stimulus to Fatigue Ratio

The stimulus is a little different too, I would say. And this is something that I kind of teased earlier and we never really got to. Yeah. Well, while the other thing is that once you get into these zones, quote unquote zones, one of the things that happens is you fatigue faster. And so you are going to deplete your muscles of glycogen more rapidly. There is some kind of contractile dysfunction at some point that nobody really knows how it works. But you basically start recruiting larger and larger motor units as you go. That fatigue rate happens faster as you get closer and closer to threshold and happens really fast once you get over threshold comparatively.

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