EP.89 - How Hard should you train, RPE, HRV and the Central governor

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Training is essential if you want to improve your performance, reduce your risk of injury and generally be a healthier, more highly functioning human.

But how hard should you train? and how often? and how do you measure your training intensity?

Measuring and quantifying training volume and intensity is half art and half science, we are constantly tracking and planning ahead for all our athletes to help them maximise performance come ’sports day’…

Some links:

Dr Darren Burgess is one of the world leaders on all things volume load and athlete monitoring. This link https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Darren_Burgess2 will take you to all his research, which is quite prolific And this link, in particular, will take you directly to his paper on the mini-fitness test that can be used to determine athlete physiological readiness. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301537199_Validity_and_Reliability_of_a_Submaximal_Intermittent_Running_Test_in_Elite_Australian_Football_Players

Here is a link to our videos and article on how to manage athlete loading: http://www.coreadvantage.com.au/blog/acute-chronic-workload-ratio

And another article/video on how fatigue works: http://www.coreadvantage.com.au/blog/2017/causes-of-fatigue