Endurance training

Other sports for which extensive amounts of endurance training are required include rowing and cross country skiing.

For instance aerobic endurance is necessary, in varying extents, in racket sports, football, rugby, martial arts, basketball and cricket.

[4] The potential for negative health effects from long-term, high-volume endurance training have begun to emerge in the scientific literature in recent years.

[6][7][8] The known risks are primarily associated with training for and participation in extreme endurance events, and affect the cardiovascular system through adverse structural remodeling of the heart and the associated arteries, with heart-rhythm abnormalities perhaps being the most common resulting symptom.

The periodization method was accredited to Tudor Bompa[12] and consists of blocks of time, generally 4–12 weeks each Traditionally, strength training (the performance of exercises with resistance or added weight) was not deemed appropriate for endurance athletes due to potential interference in the adaptive response to the endurance elements of an athlete's training plan.

There were also misconceptions regarding the addition of excess body mass through muscle hypertrophy (growth) associated with strength training, which could negatively effect endurance performance by increasing the amount of work required to be completed by the athlete.