# @athleticlab on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B8wIMILnfbG
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15481470-athleticlab-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-02-19T14:35:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Athletic Lab (@athleticlab) — https://gondola.cc/athleticlab

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Regardless of sport, there are certain points in the year when you need to place an emphasis on training. At other points of the year you need to shift that emphasis to winning games, matches or events.⠀
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Because training increases both fitness AND fatigue, coaches and athletes need to be careful with the volume and intensity of training during competitive periods. But with a reduced emphasis on training often comes an undesirable reduction in fitness. In a well designed program this can be offset with an even greater reduction in fatigue, and as a result, performance can still improve. But if athletes are allowed to detrain to too great of an extent Or for too long of a time, performance will inevitably suffer. ⠀
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We must understand that:⠀
1. High training loads improve fitness but also result in fatigue which can impair performance, and⠀
2. Low training loads result in a drop-off in fitness (aka detraining) and fatigue which might similarly impair performance⠀
This is why it’s vitally important to emphasize increasing fitness as much as possible at the times of the year where management of fatigue is less important. Because when we need to reduce training loads to minimize fatigue so that athletes can shine in their sport, some form of detraining is inevitable. In other words, build up fitness when you can so that you have enough to withstand the inevitable decrement during the season.⠀
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Athletic Lab’s mikeyoungphd explains….”I call this putting ‘hay in the barn.’ Farmers in colder weather climates know this concept really well. These farmers know that to feed their cattle when it’s too cold for grass to grow, they have to cut hay and store the surplus in a barn when they can (warmer months). If they didn’t put hay in the barn when they could, then they won’t have any hay when they really needed it. The same thing applies to fitness with athletes. If they don’t develop a surplus of fitness at times of year when that’s possible to develop, they won’t be able to rely on their fitness when they necessarily need it the most.”⠀
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