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Nancy,

IMO the same training strategies are NOT appropriate
for equine and humans.
The physiologies are very different.  Horese
need far less training
per mile than humans.  And different types of
training.
Overtraining is perhaps the biggest training mistake
in the sport.

As an example of how different the physiology is I
just read
correspodence between a very well certified human
cardiologist 
who had written a very professional letter basically
saying some
of the equine cardiology work AERC was sponsoring
reflected
as lack of understanding of cardiology, how the fundamentals
of the heart worked, etc. and that some of the effects
being
looked for did not occur.

The response, also very professional, from the University
doing the research gave
point by point examples of the difference and how
the
effects did occur and were observed in horses.

We still have much to learn about endurance physiology
in horses.
So taking new ideas from human training and investigating
them is
worthwhile.  Applying them before doing so may
be asking for trouble.

Stagg Newman
former distance runner
(and who hopes in the not too distant future to have
completed 50 1-day 100s)

> Thanks.
>
> As a former distance runner, then competitive cyclist, I have been
> wondering if I am making a mistake in applying training techniques
that
> work with human athletes to the physical conditioning of a horse.
Am I
> understanding correctly that the same training strategies are appropriate
> for the two different species?
>
> Nancy Sturm
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