So in other words, do as much volume as you can, but don't let that interfere with your ability to really smash and hammer your high-intensity workouts.

That Trafflon Show, episode 60. All right, thanks for tuning in again to that triathlon show, the podcast presented by

ScientificTraflon.com.

As always, I'm your host, Michael, and today it's just you and me no guest for this episode I want to talk about a topic

that I recently sent an email about to the subscribers of the scientific triathlon newsletter

and that topic is training intensity versus training volume which one is more important

how should you prioritize the two?

And that is what we are going to take a look at today. And the answer is, of course, it depends

as all training questions. But let's dig a little bit deeper and see how the level of athlete can

have an impact on whether you should prioritize one or the other.

So for beginner-trap athletes, first of all, my practical opinion is that training frequency,

so in a sense, volume, but not necessarily total duration, but actually the frequency, how often you do workouts.

So that might be increasing workouts from four times per week to six times per week.

That is what I would consider probably for most beginners the most important variable,

even above intensity, because the beginners haven't necessarily built up the durability to withstand and

stay injury-free when they embark on an intense training program, even though there are

a lot of studies showing that actually the fitness benefits that beginner three athletes and

or endurance athletes can gain from high

intensity training are huge. That's true. There's no denying that, but there's a risk

associated with that kind of training program. And the same goes for higher training volume

that consists of workouts of longer duration instead of more workouts, more of them in a week.

They may be shorter, but the total volume increases when you increase the frequency.

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