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

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

Volume is the scientific way of saying “how much” training is being done.

axiom of “more is better”

To cause the best gains, however, that following stimulus has to be greater in magnitude than the one prior.

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

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

MRV: The highest volume of training an athlete can do in a particular situation and still recover to present a full overload in the next training timescale.

recovered.

mesocycle-scale MRV, which would be defined as “the highest volume of training an athlete can do in a particular mesocycle and still recover to present a full overload in the next mesocycle.”