I've decided to make my literature review for grad school available to all because I'm too busy to do anything with it at the moment and it's better to allow others to get some useful info out of it then sit on my computer.
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This document is a full literature review of all there is to know about the science behind distance running. Going beyond a literature review, it also contains a critique from my coaching perspective and some insights on how to translate the science to the coaching field. You'll find the table of contents below:
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: How Running Happens
Motor Programming
Sending and Receiving the signal
Muscle Contraction
Energy Needed
Muscle Fiber Types
A Recruitment Issue
Passive Mechanics
Chapter 2: Fatigue: Friend or Foe?
How Fatigue manifests itself
How Fatigue occurs
Oxygen’s role
Chapter 3: An Oxygen Problem
The measurement: VO2max
Oxygen intake
Oxygen Transportation
Oxygen utilization
The VO2max limiter.
Chapter 4: The Fallacy of VO2max
How the VO2max concept developed
Efficacy of basing training paces off of VO2max
Should we train to improve VO2max?
Chapter 5: Lactate, Acid, and other By-products
Buffering/Dealing with high acidosis
The Lactate Threshold
Maximum Lactate Steady State
Lactate Testing
Chapter 6: Efficiency
The Measurement: Running Economy
Biomechanical Efficiency
Neuromuscular Efficiency
Metabolic Efficiency
Problems with Running Economy
Chapter 7: The Brain-Muscle Connection
Neuromuscular and Anaerobic factors in performance
Fatigue and the CNS
Temperature Regulation
The Psychology of it all
Chapter 8: The Genetics of Training
Steps of Adaptation
Long Term Adaptation
Training Applications
Chapter 9: Theories of Training Adaptation
General Adaptation Syndrome and Dose-Response
Individuality of adaptation
Chapter 10: Volume and Intensity of Training
Volume of Training
Intensity of Training
Interaction of Volume and Intensity of Training
Training in the Real World
Supplemental training
Training Frequency
Chapter 11: Periodization
Periodization in Endurance Sport
Individualization
Chapter 12: Training Models- Example of Integration of Theory and Practice
Chapter 13: Where do we go from here?
© 2011 Steve Magness
© 2011 Steve Magness
Thanks for the interesting read!
ReplyDeletecheers!
ReplyDeletefantastic read, to be honest i was kind of expecting some magic workout,but now thanks to you i know better than that. I don´t know if it will be of interest to you but I might translate it to spanish if i find the time...
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve - great piece of work.
ReplyDeleteI postponed donating until I had checked what you had to say about lactate, Should have known better. Of course you are up to date. I was on a coaching certification course at the weekend and the (otherwise excellent) lecturer gave us a breakdown of all the experts and PhDs who had validated the material. The second slide said something about "lactic acid accumulation". Thankfully he was open to a correction "from the floor" and promised they would revise the material after I emailed him references to Brooks and others overnight. It is amazing how "everyone" is still in the grip of the lactic acid thing. I will recommend your book - well, that's what it is - to be added to their reading list. Hope you get some $ out of it. And dude, I know you don't have time, but it would be dead easy to turn this into an e-book for Kindle and flog it on Amazon. I can help if you want.