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Primal Endurance 115 Things You Need To Know, Part 3

Primal Endurance Podcast

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The Aerobic Base Period for a Competitive Endurance Athletes

For a competitive endurance athlete, this is particularly relevant because you need to build that foundation before you layer in high stress, faster paced workouts. So the aerobic base building period to kick off the year is a period of time, usually eight weeks minimum where all of your workouts are at or below your maximum aerobic heart rate. It's really common for elite endurance athletes to go and set PRs in their early racing season, even though they haven't done a sufficient amount of high intensity exercise to prepare. They don't think they're ready for a peak effort. A lot of people wonder, can I still do my rehabilitative exercises? We're talking about devoting the vast majority of your exercise

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