The case is afoot! Is it possible that the explanations we have for fatigue are not only limited but that they hide a greater truth? Performance competes with fatigue, they are, at the boundaries of performance, where we find failure and exhaustion, antithetics. Maybe, if we can find the trial, we can unearth something unexpected? The brain is our number one suspect. Tag along.

In high school Doug Ingersoll won the Massachusetts vs Connecticut Interstate Cross Country Championship. Fun Fact, the previous year's winner was Alberto Salazar. He then ran cross-country and track for four years at Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine where he set school records in the 4x800m, 1500m, 1 mile, 3000m, 2 mile, and 3 mile. This is his story.

What do we do when nothing is doing what we want? We discuss three core issues of perspective that create the fog of war that's holding us back from seeing the results we hope to gain from all our time and effort. What limits us from seeing what's right in front of our nose?

If only we weren't as horribly weak and mentally deficient as we are. The neighbor's lawn is so much better than our own. If we just dig that little bit deeper and then a whole scale transformation will occur. Or maybe it won't. What makes it so tough for people to just train easy? Break on through.

Consensus is not proof of what can, or cannot be done. How can we determine the scale of improvement possible from training? Why does training lead to the adaptations that we see? How can we apply an understanding of why training can sometimes have a significant impact on fitness and sometimes no impact at all? Are the strategies most commonly used the most effective? Vox Populi, Vox Dei.

The three core questions for endurance sport training: how intense should my training be; how much volume of training should I do; how frequently should I train? We consider answers to these questions.

Fats and Carbs come up all the time when people talk about performance. These substrates are used to create ATP. ATP is, basically, energy used to move. The study of these two substrates relative to one another has been used to validated different training methods, particularly around higher intensity and multi-zone training. Here's why I disagree with this perspective and it's conclusions.

Lactate Threshold is lactate threshold. There is not a second lactate threshold. Critical power, which is questionable in it's own right, is confused as a second lactate threshold. Lactate threshold can't be identified by any prescribed 2 mmol or 4 mmol power. The conviction that there's this higher level limit or ceiling and training toward that intensity is the reason why there's so much injury, burnout, misery, unpredictable performance and tears in endurance sport. Turns out that when you train harder than is actually productive, it's overtraining, no matter what the group think leads you to believe.