Granted Steve Magness does focus on running, but a lot of what he writes is VERY applicable to cycling too.
So I have to wonder if there’s TR Data that also indicates riders who just don’t respond to low volume plans?
If anyone wants to read the study ^
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This is exactly the type of study we’d get a 90 minute pod cast on while the panel discusses the findings and how the coach has see real world examples of this, while the Pro rider echos personal experience of the same.
Love Steve Magnus and his deep dives!
In the case of “non-responders,” I tend to think of individuals who don’t respond to any training stimuli. In 25 years of coaching I can think of only one athlete, that no matter the stimulus, they just never improved (ok, they technically improved but talking like a second or two over 4 years for a beginner time in the 800). More volume… nope. More intervals, tempo and threshold work… nope. Anaerobic sprints, weight room, hills… nothing worked. Maybe it was they were already at their genetic ceiling? Some will respond better to intensity, some volume. And occasionally nothing at all.
Is that the athlete who the author said “had a single mitochondria in their whole body.”? The same one?
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