
Fatigue Resistance And How To Improve It
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Durability and Fatigue Resistance
The concept of durability is that someone can have unbelievable speed over one minute 400m, five minutes or two kilometers when they are fresh. But how well they can access that when they are fatigued is the concept of durable. So in a cycling race for example, if you're sprinter has higher durability because no matter half a tick they are, they are closer to their fresh baseline. The other cyclist has worse durability because they drop off more as they accumulate fatigue over time. And so there's a tactical outcome that then would have to be almost respected here. Like you've got to expose. If you believe that a rival has a lack of durability, you know exactly how to expose it
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