Training The Utilization Limited Athlete
A Comprehensive Guide to Training Interventions & Tools
This article is a companion piece to my previous articles titled, Training The Delivery Limited Athlete and Training The Respiratory Limited Athlete.
Before discussing training interventions for utilization limited athletes it’s important to acknowledge that the underlying causes of utilization limitations are quite broad, and as a result we cannot have once catch all set of foundational components that need to be addressed for these individuals. For example, a lack of mitochondrial density, a disruption to the normal muscle fiber structure, changes in intramuscular and intermuscular coordination after injury, chronic overtraining, and a left shift in the hemoglobin dissociation curve from hypocapnic breathing can all impair skeletal muscle oxygen extraction. In order to reconcile this, I suggest we zoom in on mitochondrial density as that will have a meaningful impact on both the magnitude of oxygen extraction, as well as the rate. Additionally, that falls within the sphere of influe…
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