The Importance of a Low Volume Workout

The outside workouts are not being well executed. You can absolutely get the same benefit from an inside and an outside workout, but it also you need to have the right circumstances and it's hard to do. Ivy, what are your thoughts looking at this athlete's calendar and in terms of what they could do that we like on the low volume side?

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

(0:00) 🏁 Ivy and Jonathan are racing Singletrack 6! Short preview, expectations, etc.

(16:00) 🫁 Do inspiratory and respiratory breathing (breath training) devices make you faster?

(33:09) 🥵 What is the maximum amount of training busy professionals should do? (Balancing work with training)

(42:15) 🧐 Why you aren’t getting faster (Why isn’t my training working?)

(57:02) 🔥 Why you are getting dropped in race starts (how to train for hard starts)

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

- Singletrack 6 Stage Breakdowns: https://trainerroad.cc/st6spreadsheet

- Effect of respiratory muscle training on exercise performance in healthy individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Illi, et al., 2012: https://trainerroad.cc/Illi2012

- Influence of Inspiratory Muscle Training on Ventilatory Efficiency and Cycling Performance in Normoxia and Hypoxia, Salazar-Martinez, et al., 2017: https://trainerroad.cc/SalazarMartinez2017

- Inspiratory muscle training improves cycling time-trial performance and anaerobic work capacity but not critical power, Johnson, et al., 2007: https://trainerroad.cc/Johnson2017

- Time to Move Beyond a “One-Size Fits All” Approach to Inspiratory Muscle Training, Shei, et al., 2022: https://trainerroad.cc/Shei2022

- Grinduro California: https://trainerroad.cc/GrinduroCA

- Stetina’s Paydirt: https://trainerroad.cc/StetinasPaydirt

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