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2PEAK Training Philosophy
Recovery leads to Strength - Recovery led Training
Training tires the body. Not until the break in between two training sessions will the adaptation occur which improves the subject's fitness. If someone trains too much and too hard he will therefore not improve, but rather deteriorate. However; if you do not set enough stimulus, you will stagnate. Only if the stimulus and rest are in the right ratio will the form increase as a result. This process is usually called super compensation.
The 2PEAK training program developed by Georg Ladig is based on the principle of super compensation, but goes further in the details. His "Recovery led Training" distinguishes between a variety of states of fatigue (muscular, cardiopulmonal, neural, etc.) and focuses on a subtly differentiated recovery. A new intensive training stimulus is only given when the body is ready to bear it. It is ready depends on the kind and intensity of the previous fatigue. To answer this question, 2PEAK uses a sophisticated predator-pray model, which is an evolution of the super compensation model. Similar to biological models, the predator-pray model describes the interdependence of stimulus and recovery:
BREAKS ARE IMPORTANT TRAINING SESSIONS
Intensive training consumes the ability to recover. Recovery is robbed by the predator (the training). As a consequence the training cannot continue on a high intensity. The predator becomes weaker because he has nothing left to eat. Only when the body has recovered again, meaning he has developed its regeneration capacity, can fresh "pray" become available for the next peak load. Important: recovery is better stimulated if the training stimulus ahead of it was important. This is valid for small (mycrocycles=one week) cycles as well as for larger (macrocycles=3-5 weeks) cycles. That is why training sessions are consolidated into blocks and are not distributed evenly over time. The emphasis on such cycles causes a succession of up- and down-swings that leads to improving form step by step until a peak that ideally coincides with the main race of the season and can be held in between a few days and up to 3 weeks. This process is also called periodisation. A preparation that leads to two main race periods is a periodisation with two peaks.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
Modeling the perfect training plan necessitates the athlete's continuous feedback to correct the plan. The 2PEAK-training plan does not just follow a pattern, but adjust constantly in a dynamic way to the athlete's feedback. In this way 2PEAK is superior to the entire known static plan - independently if they are done individually by a coach or come from a book. This means a much more efficient and flexible training. 2PEAK compares actual to plan after EACH log entry and changes future training units at once if it determines a deviation that could put at risk the long-term training- or race objective. With this 2PEAK offers a strategy to react individually to unexpected occurrences such as last minute changes of plans, sickness or time.
Certain aspects of 2PEAK's plan can be put under the scrutiny of an experienced professional coach to be fine tuned and stimulate the athlete to surpass himself.
12 years of development and optimization are contained in the formula of "Recovery led Training". Eight years of deployment as Tour Magazin's (Germany) training plans and the experience of thousands of online users prove that it's an outstanding concept. More about Georg Ladig the creator of "Recovery led Training" can be seen here.
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