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Cosgrove believes cardiovascular programming is ass backward
Alwyn Cosgrove poses a great question on cardiovascular conditioning and the traditional approach as to how we train our CV system…and just how “ass backwards” it is. “The muscles don’t move because of cardiovascular demand. It’s the reverse. The cardio system is elevated because of muscular demand. We need to program the body based on the movements it’s going to perform – not based on the cardiovascular system.” Definitely worth a couple minutes of your time to read this one.
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For some reason, Alwyn doesn’t allow comments so I will comment here. I don’t get why he thinks this is a new thought? He is essentially talking about specificity of training. Joe Friel and others have been talking about the need to train in each sport and how training in one sport does not help in the others (biking does help running some).
And how is it that others do their training backwards? We do program muscular activity which is measured by the cardiovascular response.
I think he describes it very well, I just don’t get how he thinks this is any kind of new thought and he doesn’t propose what his “new” idea would look like.