HOW CONTRAST CAN LEAD TO PERFORMANCE GAINS

While volume and consistency are the cornerstones of endurance fitness, contrast and variability can play a key part of your training. Here, Ben explains how

- BEN BRIGHT

 We are all, to greater or lesser extents, creatures of habit. The human body has an incredible ability to adapt to extreme conditions and treatment to achieve stasis. The mind is probably even more impressive in how it can adapt to extraordinary circumstances and environments to create internal stability. As endurance athletes, my guess is that we're even further down the scale of habit, process and routine than the average person. This is a good thing because consistency is critical to endurance development and routine is critical to consistency. But it can also create its own problems.