Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

I'm your host, Zach Bitter, and today I have a solo episode for you.

Today's solo episode is on a topic about how to distribute the intensity

training that you do in your endurance plan over the course of a training plan. But most

specifically, I want to get into a little bit more about maybe how not to do it because I see a lot of interesting

stuff online when it comes to speed work and things like that. And as you would imagine,

the things that end up getting a lot of publicity and a lot of interest and intrigue are

things that are either new or things that are

perceivably new and things that seem to be working for some of the more recognizable

figures in the sport. So elite athletes, Olympians, and things like that. When in reality,

you have to think about also how they got to that point and whether or not you're skipping

steps to try to replicate something when it comes to planning your speed work because like

pretty much everything in endurance sport you don't do yourself any favors certainly no long-term

favors by skipping steps or by finding yourself in a position

where you are taking a shortcut that may produce some short-term results, but ultimately

hold you back from finding where your true potential is. So I actually specifically got

interested in this topic because of double threshold training.

That seems to be the thing that's gotten a lot of buzz right now or a lot of interest from people in the running world in terms of whether they should or shouldn't do these double threshold training sessions.

And if that's going to be the thing that brings them their next best race result.

And part of that's just because, you know, you have individuals like the Engelbrickson's,

who specifically Yaacob, who is one of the best endurance athletes in the world right now,

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