No Man's Land

No-man's Land. In Figure 7, you will see that there are 3 shaded areas, between R and I, between I and T and between T and E. Except for MP (between T & E) these are "No man's land of training. Training intensities that fall into 'No man's land," are either too easy or too hard to reap the benefits you want. You are not, as may sometimes be assumed, achieving the purpose of training the two systems on either side of the chosen intensity. What you are doing might be termed, "Quality-junk" training. At the least, it is training aimed at accomplishing an unidentifiable purpose. Always have a purpose for every training session; ask yourself the following questions: "What system do I hope to improve by doing this workout,' and 'What am I really trying to accomplish?"

xotrackkgirl wrote:ah.. I'm honestly confused. :/

NotChangingUntilSub5 wrote:I should have known from all the ridiculous quantification.

FinishingKick wrote:If someone can find the old topic where I was trying to explain this then post the link.

And HXC, if you don't have an approved account on Dyestat, why do you go on there?

FinishingKick wrote:And HXC, if you don't have an approved account on Dyestat, why do you go on there?

RawBeginner wrote:Daniels' book highlights the 5 most important training intensities. BUT I don't think the human body can be as simple as he makes it out to be, and he definitely is exaggerating by calling these paces "junk". The body will respond to stress, this is a fact. You don't go out for a run at 6:20 pace and have your body say "WTF? My VDOT calls for 6:05 pace. I'm gonna pretend that run never happened and not adapt in any way."

FinishingKick wrote:

RawBeginner wrote:Daniels' book highlights the 5 most important training intensities. BUT I don't think the human body can be as simple as he makes it out to be, and he definitely is exaggerating by calling these paces "junk". The body will respond to stress, this is a fact. You don't go out for a run at 6:20 pace and have your body say "WTF? My VDOT calls for 6:05 pace. I'm gonna pretend that run never happened and not adapt in any way."

That's not what he's saying. If you go in between tempo and interval, you're not really working a specific body system, whereas if you run at tempo you get the direct benefits of a tempo and interval the direct benefits there.