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

training: full repletion of glycogen, full repair of all tissue damage, return to homeostasis in all

‘true and complete recovery,” we are referring to the dissolution of all damage introduced by

fundamentally, the most meaningful presentation of overload is from microcycle to microcycle, mainly because most athletes and coaches use the training week as both their most well planned and most fungible training timescale unit.

This group of concepts - which we term the “Training Volume Landmarks”-

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

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.

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

Because overloading is the central process of training and the one that necessitates recovery, recovery must occur during the interval between two overloading training sessions, which target the same system or ability.

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.”