I could tell that my body had undergone some of these physiological adaptations because my RPE had gone down from a 6 to a 5 on the same type of run from week 1 to week 4, meaning that my heart rate had also gone down for the same amount of work (122bpm --> 102bpm). I would also expect to see a decrease in my resting heart rate from before to after, but unfortunately I did not take my resting heart rate before I started my program but I would expect it to be higher than my current resting heart rate of 68 beats per minute. I think that applying the principle of specificity to my continuous training was also a strength for the Mud Sweat and Tears event, for it work the same energy system (aerobic) as I would using in Mud Sweat and Tears this meant that I would be developing this energy system for the time and intensity I needed it. Above shows the strengths and interrelationships between continuous training, the aerobic energy system, cardio-respiratory and the principle of training specificity and how they developed me as a runner to perform as well as I could in the Mud Sweat and Tears
I could tell that my body had undergone some of these physiological adaptations because my RPE had gone down from a 6 to a 5 on the same type of run from week 1 to week 4, meaning that my heart rate had also gone down for the same amount of work (122bpm --> 102bpm). I would also expect to see a decrease in my resting heart rate from before to after, but unfortunately I did not take my resting heart rate before I started my program but I would expect it to be higher than my current resting heart rate of 68 beats per minute. I think that applying the principle of specificity to my continuous training was also a strength for the Mud Sweat and Tears event, for it work the same energy system (aerobic) as I would using in Mud Sweat and Tears this meant that I would be developing this energy system for the time and intensity I needed it. Above shows the strengths and interrelationships between continuous training, the aerobic energy system, cardio-respiratory and the principle of training specificity and how they developed me as a runner to perform as well as I could in the Mud Sweat and Tears