Summary of How "normal people" can train like the worlds best endurance athletes | Stephen Seiler | TEDxArendal

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Stephen Seiler discusses how "normal people" can train like the world's best endurance athletes by following the same intensity zones as the best athletes. This allows for an accurate measurement of endurance training and allows for the question of "no pain, no gain" to be answered "no."

• 00:00:00 The two random events that Stephen Seiler refers to in his 1-paragraph summary are a woman he recognized from a previous study who chose to walk instead of run, and an article he read where an endurance athlete said that hills are one of the few exercises where no pain no gain doesn't apply. Seiler says that these events forced him to re-examine what he thought he knew about the endurance training process and how it should be studied.
• 00:05:00 The video discusses how "normal people" can train like the world's best endurance athletes by following the same intensity zones as the best athletes. This allows for an accurate measurement of endurance training and allows for the question of "no pain, no gain" to be answered "no."
• 00:10:00 The video discusses how "normal people" can train like the world's best endurance athletes by following a polarized approach, where they train moderately hard and often, but also have days where they train at a lower intensity and/or do less training. This approach seems to work better than training harder more often and maybe less overall for the highest performance levels to be achievable over time.
• 00:15:00 Stephen Seiler discusses how "normal people" can train like the world's best endurance athletes by slowing down and spending more time in the green zone.