[Mark]

Professor Mike Stone – Strength and
Endurance Training.

Professor Stone
presented a number of key messages during his presentation on
the use of strength training for enhanced endurance
performance. Fundamental to this was the assertion that VO2
Max (traditionally the key measure used by exercise
physiologists), was not the main indicator of endurance
performance. Given the research basis linking training with VO2
max performance, this in itself presented a reason for reevaluating
endurance training. The fact that neural input may
affect distance running performance, and that distance running
economy is related to the ability to produce force, further
emphasised the need to re-evaluate many traditional training
methods used for endurance development.
Professor Stone also covered the challenge faced by team sport
athletes requiring endurance but also requiring high levels of
strength and power. He outlined how even a small amount of
endurance training can have a negative effect on the rate of
force development. One of the key reasons is the incompatibility
of intracellular signals, where aerobic type pathways and
strength type pathways exist. Aerobic based pathways inhibit
strength based pathways, but not vice versa, and this needs to
guide our endurance training.

I have been reading alot of good stuff & this guy is on the ball and he is British!!!!

[Franz29]

Interesting stuff. Where is he published? I'd like to check it out.

[grole]

I found this page which includes a bunch of stuff by Mike Stone.

This includes a link to a paper Maximum Strength & Strength Training - Relationship to Endurance? which may be the document being refered to.

Peter

[Franz29]

Nice one, lots of interesting articles up there for me to pass the time with.

[Mark]

I'm a member of the U.K Strength & Conditioning Association, and the extract is from a seminar that he did a few months ago at the AGM of the UKSCA.

Nice1 with putting the link up, thats what I just came back to do.

[Franz29]

CrossfitDerby, on Nov 6 2008, 02:30 PM, said:

I'm a member of the U.K Strength & Conditioning Association, and the extract is from a seminar that he did a few months ago at the AGM of the UKSCA.

Nice1 with putting the link up, thats what I just came back to do.

How is the accreditation path for UKSCA? I might join up as an associaite just to read the journals, then if the accreditation is worth it I will look into it in the near future.