zedro":lwkfp5zd said:
Ha, yeah I thought he was joking.
Oh good! I thought I might be the only one. This line below is the giveaway that this whole article might be a joke:
“Squats for your lower back are really important,” Walker says. "You need a lot of back strength in Hard Enduro, because you’re bent over all the time on the bike."
In other words, make sure that when you do squats, your lower back hurts as though you have been hunched over a dirtbike for several hours. That's the ticket! LOL.
You can get away with overtraining in your 20s, but it seems the current knowledge is almost the total opposite.
Ya. There is consensus that over-training is always bad, even when you seem to be getting away with it. The Holy Grail of sports training is injury prevention. If the trainer of an NFL team can reduce injury rates by even 10%, they are saving the team literally millions of dollars.
Many of the banned substances don't actually improve performance
per se, they only improve recovery, which improves performance indirectly (by allowing the athlete to keep training without interruptions, to be more experimental in their training, etc.)
Its funny that this article is published by Red Bull because they are investing more money in the science and development of "prehabilitative training" then anyone. Danny MacAskill couldn't make them amazing biking videos when he was laid up with a sore back.
https://youtu.be/GL0rbxB9Lqg
A friend of a friend of a friend who works at Red Bull says that the company is now refusing to sign athletes that don't incorporate movement training into their daily routine.
I find it pleasantly ironic that the training regimens of the future's most extreme athletes have the same objective as the training regimens of middle-age desk jockeys that transform into warriors every weekend: living without pain.
