Beyer's latest column is interesting as it seems to touch on some ratherrapid salient subjects (training and sore feet!)
"He [Wolfson] said the greatest lesson he learned from weightlifting is that training lightly gets better results than overdoing it. "Less is more," Wolfson said. "I never overtrain."
So here we are again but now with a 30% trainer saying less is more... Tough to argue with results.
Hey, KH! immediate reaction, guess Wolfson is the flavor of the month. I'm skeptical as I've somewhat watched his work in the past, though never closely. I might like him to keep up that light work till I get there. Fred Kersley--Aussie Standarbred Version of TJ Smith who drove and trained tens of thousands of races observes in Staaden's book that "overtraining" fails to get results. Kersley who drove tens of thousands over 30 years was in the interview very tuned into "what works" on race day in terms of the training. I'll have a lot of Kersley when (and if) I ever get to performance. Very interesting interview. Maybe will get a closer look at Wolfson down the road here!
Overtraining is rarely well defined by anyone that uses it when associated with racehorses. Body sore, poor shoeing, hard tracks, heavy riders, no general fitness... They can all result in a horse/athlete that does not progressively get better or worse regresses, but I wouldn't call them over training. Over training to me would be a logical training approach where you manipulate a multitude of variables and you see a regression where it isn't expected, you fix the issue and then you could expect to move forward to a new peak.(As long as you've avoided a major injury and didn't go too far off the rails) Continuing to train a horse with sore feet and having performance suffer is not what I first think of as overtraining. It's just logical cause and effect, but not overtraining.... If you stick a horse with a 7F in company work and he bleeds on your trousers, staggers back to the barn on his LTLH banana feet, chips a knee and loses 100 lbs over the next days, is that overtraining? Not by my definition, but I think this and the more subtle versions of this approach is what some people mean by it...IMHO KH
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Beyer's latest column is interesting as it seems to touch on some ratherrapid salient subjects (training and sore feet!)
"He [Wolfson] said the greatest lesson he learned from weightlifting is that training lightly gets better results than overdoing it. "Less is more," Wolfson said. "I never overtrain."
So here we are again but now with a 30% trainer saying less is more... Tough to argue with results.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/23/AR2009022302714.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
KH
Hey, KH! immediate reaction, guess Wolfson is the flavor of the month. I'm skeptical as I've somewhat watched his work in the past, though never closely. I might like him to keep up that light work till I get there. Fred Kersley--Aussie Standarbred Version of TJ Smith who drove and trained tens of thousands of races observes in Staaden's book that "overtraining" fails to get results. Kersley who drove tens of thousands over 30 years was in the interview very tuned into "what works" on race day in terms of the training. I'll have a lot of Kersley when (and if) I ever get to performance. Very interesting interview. Maybe will get a closer look at Wolfson down the road here!
Overtraining is rarely well defined by anyone that uses it when associated with racehorses. Body sore, poor shoeing, hard tracks, heavy riders, no general fitness... They can all result in a horse/athlete that does not progressively get better or worse regresses, but I wouldn't call them over training. Over training to me would be a logical training approach where you manipulate a multitude of variables and you see a regression where it isn't expected, you fix the issue and then you could expect to move forward to a new peak.(As long as you've avoided a major injury and didn't go too far off the rails) Continuing to train a horse with sore feet and having performance suffer is not what I first think of as overtraining. It's just logical cause and effect, but not overtraining.... If you stick a horse with a 7F in company work and he bleeds on your trousers, staggers back to the barn on his LTLH banana feet, chips a knee and loses 100 lbs over the next days, is that overtraining? Not by my definition, but I think this and the more subtle versions of this approach is what some people mean by it...IMHO
KH
I'll put Kersley's version on here tomorrow.
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