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TRAINING

you train, the more you want to train, and in that setbacks, it’s necessary to keep control of your
condition the risk of overtraining can be high. preparation respecting conscientiously the
The Stakhanovite way of training is not necessary principle of alternating training and recovery.
if recovery is not optimized.

You have to be very careful not to be too
enthusiastic and over-motivated! To avoid

Synthesis

To improve, the best strategy is probably to adopt The psychological and even «energetic»
the philosophy «No pain no gain» at some point, dimension is obviously essential. Indeed, some
but not always. athletes have a high vital energy that they have
to burn off. On the contrary, other athletes must
the key of the problem is thus the realization of a motivate themselves to go to train.
variable and optimized training depending on the
periods. This training load must take into account In this context, the motivation degree and the will
all the dimensions of the athlete: his goals, his to push their limits will condition the frequency
availability, his personality, his recovery capacity, and intensity of «hard» sessions.
his level of general stress.. Etc.

How to intelligently overload the training ?

As we have seen previously, the phase of overload is maximum aerobic power is very interesting but can
essential to improve. be risky. Indeed, the generated tiredness by such
efforts is often high and it’s necessary to provide for
For an athlete who prepares for a race, we generally a recovery period in order not to fail in his objective.
advocate programming an overload week per cycle
in phase of oriented or specific preparation. - Increasing the volume : a timeless classic
that long distance triathletes like to describe
During the last cycle before the objective, which is as «stacking the kilometers». The overload of
generally a cycle where you should get a waveform kilometers at 60 to 80% of the maximum aerobic
pic, it’s good to finish the phase of overload training power is really less «risky» because it’s less intense.
at least 2 to 3 weeks before D-day. The correlate is that it doesn’t generate the same
effects regarding improvement.
It’s possible to overload in 3 different ways :
- Increasing the volume AND the intensity at the
- Increasing the intensity during sessions by same time : this is what we do in training camps.
interval. The overload in intensity multiplying
efforts with an intensity superior to 80% of the

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