Let us talk about Marathon runners & the correlation between exercise volume and race time.
Hey all, and welcome back to another fact-based weekend read from Strength By Fitness.
Most people understand, intuitively that you have to exercise consistently in order to truly shine, fitness-wise. But, we also know that there is individual nuance to the entire exercise volume, recovery, nutrition, and progression formula.
All depending on who you are, how you train, what you train, your age, how you eat, sleep, rest and recover.
Still, the fact remains, even with all that nuanced perspective taken into account, regular weekly exercise pays back what you give it. Regular exercise walks all over infrequent ones, and while some weekly effort is great, as long as you can recover properly from it, slightly more effort and volume usually result in slightly better progression.
But enough of the general exercise considerations, let us focus on Marathon race times and how they correlate to exercise volume.
Well, thankfully, in this fairly big study, we will fortunately take a look at over 150,000 completed marathons from 120,000 runners, so there´s no lack of data points in this one.
