Is Too Much Training a Good Idea?

Filip Larsen, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Swedish School of Sports and Health Sciences as well as Chief Science Officer at Silicon Valley Exercise Analytics (SVEXA). In this interview, we discuss research conducted by Filip and his team on finding the line between enough and too much training using various physiological and cellular markers, and how to take these findings from the lab and apply them in the field. 

IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:

-Effects of intensified training on performance and cardiovascular parameters

-Effects on mitochondrial parameters, including impaired mitochondrial respiration

-Effects on glucose tolerance and substrate utilisation

-Effects on glycolytic pathway and muscle glycogen adaptations

-Implications for training, including when and how to do high-intensity training, how often to plan in rest cycles among load cycles, and more

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LINKS AND RESOURCES:

• Filip's profile on Research Gate and his company website (SVEXA)
• Excessive exercise training causes mitochondrial functional impairment and decreases glucose tolerance in healthy volunteers - Flockhart et al. 2021
• Short-term intensified training temporarily impairs mitochondrial respiratory capacity in elite endurance athletes - Cardinale et al. 2021
• Repeated transient mRNA bursts precede increases in transcriptional and mitochondrial proteins during training in human skeletal muscle - Perry et al. 2010
• Filip Larsen on Tyngre Träningssnack (ep319)

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