The Progress Theory Podcast is back for season 2 with a new challenge!!!

Want a good engine,  lift heavy and not suck at both? With the rise in functional fitness and many athletes taking on their own challenges after Coronavirus got most of the events cancelled, we decided to cover how it is possible to train for both strength and endurance.

In Episode 2.1 follow @thepricep and @dg.coaching as they detail the next challenge: Increase strength in their chosen lifts while training for a 4 hour marathon. All in 11 weeks.

The cover the following topics:

- What is concurrent training? Is concurrent training more common than we think?

- Why has it been previously perceived that you couldn't train for strength and endurance at the same time?

- Who is Professor  Robert Hickson and how did his seminal research in 1980 start the idea that strength and endurance shouldn't be trained together?

- After critiquing his research what answers do we find?

- What is the interference effect? Does an understanding of the molecular pathways which regulate strength and endurance adaptations help explain why endurance training may inhibit protein synthesis after resistance training?

- Which factors affect how powerful the interference effect is? can we structure training so we can reduce the interference effect and maximise Endurance and strength training simultaneously?

Hope you enjoy the episode. Like and subscribe to our podcast and join the journey. What are your experiences with concurrent training?

Mentioned in this episode:

The Science of Hybrid Training

It was originally thought that you could not effectively train for both strength and endurance at the same time because they required different adaptations which were not compatible with each other. It was claimed that ‘an interference effect’, blunted the adaptations for strength if you simultaneously trained for endurance. However, recent developments in sports which require both strength and endurance have really challenged this idea, with hybrid athletes producing impressive performances in both strength and endurance sports together. This had led scientists, coaches, and athletes to rethink what is humanly possible and suggests the interference effect is not as influential as originally thought. But what is a hybrid athlete? What is the ‘interference effect’? And how can we maximize our training to improve at the same time our strength and endurance performance? In this book, Dr Phil Price provides insight into the misconceptions surrounding strength and endurance training by distilling the past 50 years of research and drawing on the conversations he had with great scientists, coaches, and athletes on The Progress Theory podcast. This book is essential reading for hybrid athletes and coaches who are looking to understand the key training variables and their effect on the simultaneous development of strength and endurance performance.

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