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Also helpful is an Eastern-philosophy-influenced suggestion detailed in John Douillard’s book Body, Mind, and Sport that recommends breathing only through your nose to minimize the stress of a workout. If you are exercising in the aerobic heart rate zone, you should be able to obtain sufficient oxygen using only your nose, but you’ll know you’re ex

Without specifically training the fat-burning system, one could actually become aerobically deficient, a common syndrome associated with fatigue, increased weight and body fat, reduced immune function (since the aerobic muscle fibers are key site of antioxidant activity), physical injury, and hormonal imbalance.

workout.

Pareto’s Principle would seem to imply that an athlete could actually eliminate 80% of the training that they perform and still expect to enjoy most of the improvements in performance capability by just performing the hot sessions.

For example, a thirty-five-year-old man with average fitness for his age—a VO2 max in the mid-30s—should be able to run at a ten-minute mile pace (6

Yet, there’s science to support the call to decelerate. Long, slow, low-level aerobic workouts, for example, are correlated with everything from increased longevity to reduced risk of metabolic syndrome, breast cancer, and cardiovascular disease.12

Arthur Newton, the father of Long Slow Distance training, persuaded the British