Judging Intensity During Strength Training

You know, we often talk about this in the cardiovascular sense for, uh, mountaineers, in the sense of making sure our low-intensity training is low enough to stimulate the adaptations we want, um, and not overly fatigue us in certain ways.

So we'll often talk about sitting below our thresholds or sitting at zone two or whatever it may be.

And we also wanna make sure in our cardio sense that when we're doing a higher intensity training, that it's high enough, that we're working hard enough to really reap the benefits.

So judging your intensity around managing fatigue, hitting the right energy systems, and basically getting what you want out of your workouts in the cardiovascular sense is very important.

Now, on the strength training side of things, this is also important because we wanna make sure that, number one, when we are doing our strength training, that we are getting enough stimulus, getting enough challenge to move us forward and challenge the muscles, challenge connective tissues, and actually develop that strength that we want.

But we also wanna manage it in certain ways that we're just not overdoing things.

We're not just running ourselves into the ground because lifting is never our primary sport.

We're not powerlifters or bodybuilders, but we wanna make sure that we're getting enough stimulus that we want to move us forward, but it's not negatively affecting our other training.

So judging our intensity is pretty important.