The Marathon Training Plateau: When More Mileage Stops Working
Your times improved steadily for months as you built mileage. Then the improvement stopped. You added more miles, then more again, but your pace stayed roughly…
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Your times improved steadily for months as you built mileage. Then the improvement stopped. You added more miles, then more again, but your pace stayed roughly…
Read the piece →You have followed the program exactly as written, adding weight to the bar each week as part of progressive overload.…
Read →You have carried trays on the same arm for years. It is the way you were trained, and by now…
Read →A shoulder that aches after long swim sets. A stiff hip that never fully settles after weeks of heavy cycling…
Read →A low back tweak during a deadlift. A shoulder that catches during the bench press. A knee that becomes uncomfortable…
Read →You spend your working day using your hands, thumbs and forearms to release tension in other people’s bodies, treatment after…
Read →A sharp pain on the outside of your knee appears at roughly the same point in every run. It may…
Read →Eight or ten hours on your feet, much of it on tile or concrete, and by the end of the…
Read →A dull ache behind or around the kneecap, worse going down stairs than up them, and more noticeable after a…
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