How Much Should I Train?: An Introduction to the Volume Landmarks (Renaissance Periodization Book 5)

the problem is that this unrefined cultural understanding fails to recognize the limitations of the association between “pain” and “gain”.

Few coaches want to be known as the easy coach; conversely, many would love to be known as a hard-nosed contriver of various sport-related tortures.

working athletes outperforming lazy ones season after season, their first conclusion may be to instruct their athletes to constantly do as much they can. The failure to see the ceiling for the “more is better” axiom is where coaches fall short. Secondly, these anecdotal prescriptions are coupled with a culture probably as old as sport itself: one t

We believe this is for two reasons. The first is that there is an element of truth to it. When coaches look around, and see hardMRV

axiom of “more is better”

The clearly defined MRV concept allowed us to educate coaches about training volume limitations, so they could lead their athletes to continual performance gains.

The MRV term was critical in enabling us to structure ideas and communicate these important concepts to coaches.

To put it more bluntly, training above MRV for long periods is a good way to dependably make athletes worse and/or get them hurt.

athletes may be carrying more or less training fatigue than others, and that’s perfectly ok, as long as they can meet the criteria of overload for individual training sessions, which is to “be able to perform at or above the previous cycle’s levels of ability.”