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It wouldn't surprise me if the athletes I coach question whether I'm a running coach or a resting coach, and that doesn't bother me in the slightest. I harp on and on about the need to rest and recover, both within training cycles and post-/pre- training cycles, and there's a reason I do - training is the total of your work and rest. You can train like a machine, but if you don't allow your body to rest and adapt, you will never perform at your peak. It just won't happen.
After discussing MAF training and effort vs pace based training in the last few blog posts, I thought it worthwhile to finish off by discussing a method for measuring effort when you don't have a heart-rate monitor.
I've had a few questions since this post, asking how keeping your "easy days easy and hard days hard" (EDHD) ties in with Maximum Aerobic Function (MAF) training; specifically, are they the same thing and if not how does it fit together? Before we begin, go read this introduction to MAF training (and more detailed information is in this book).
