ATC: Balancing Aerobic and Anaerobic Development, Practicing Athletic Patience, How Much Training Data Do We Need, and More

This episode is brought to you by UCAN SuperStarch; the revolutionary fuel that helps you achieve metabolic efficiency and allows you to burn fat. Save 15% at enduranceplanet.com/ucan or click here for the savings to apply automatically. Be sure to check out Tawnee's latest pre-workout UCAN recipe--it's easy and delicious. Also, want to join EP for Ragnar? We had such great success with Ragnar SoCal that we're doing it again! This time we're doing Ragnar Relay Napa Valley Oct. 23-24, 2015. If you want to be on the time for a once-in-a-lifetime experience email us at [email protected] and we'll give you the details! More on the race here https://ragnarrelay.com/race/napavalley On this episode of Ask the Coaches: -Lucho getting into bodybuilding? And more on adding lean muscle mass/weight as an endurance athlete. -Experienced marathoner looking to hit a 3-hour goal -Realizing too much training has been LSD and high-end/anaerobic development is lacking--how to fix this and work the high end safely -The relationship between volume vs. intensity -Lucho vs. Tawnee debating big-volume daily running weeks for weeks at a time--is it safe and healthy? Hudson may recommend it, but is it for everyone? Who should be doing this approach? -Does maintaining fat-adaptation mean every single workout needs to promote it? Or can you take an “80/20” approach? -Long-term running development for ultra success, aka build your body to handle the miles before jumping into a race -Where you should be fitness-wise/running-wise 20-30 weeks out from an ultra -Being real with life duties and race goals -Master’s female athlete having trouble with MAF and keeping HR low (it's just too slow; HR feels "fine" when it's higher). Is MAF not for her or does she need to give it more time and practice? -Explaining TSS and rTSS and if you are an athlete or coach who needs to use these -Training data--how much do we really need?! -The MAF Test--is it really the only data you need to measure gains (or lack thereof) in fitness and health?? - and more...