The Benefits of Training Monotony

When you are training at or below that aerobic threshold, you aren't building up stress and fatigue the way you are at those higher intensities. So it's not going to push burn out the way higher intensity work will. Let's bring in a clip from Dr. Steven Siler talking about this stress, which he refers to as training monotony. That one of the best ways to over train an organism is to subject them to just daily stress that is at the same level. And that's what happened with horses - when their easy days were made harder, they fell apart. When their hard days were made difficult, they could handle it.