Outside of the controversy of steroids aside, they had made one significant change that challenged all traditional thoughts on exercise. Since then every other country has adopted this secret into training their Olympic athletes.
For a long time a huge part of training athletes were to make them run for a long time at a slow pace.
The Russians had replaced long distance running for short sprints. It didn't take long for this information to get literally smuggled out. Since then elite athletic training has never been the same. Even for marathon runners.
Now if only someone could tell all the regular gym goers...
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Interesting. Joel Jamieson (MMA s&c coach for some UFC guys (Rich Franklin, Tim Boetsch, Chris Leben et al) disagrees with you:
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I'm not sure whom to believe but I want to believe the LSD is better only because it's less painful/horrible than sprints. :)
But BJ Penn, Frankie Edgar, GSP, Rory Macdonald, Kenny Florian, Rashad Evans, all disagree with him. So do the S and C coaches who were training professional athletes prior to MMA, like SSL, Athlete's Perfomance, IHP, etc. And the guys you named, especially someone like Rich Franklin has great cardio as far as trucking every round. But none of those fighters mentioned have any explosive endurance. They are similar to a Forrest Griffin style, where they can just keep trucking at a medium pace every round.
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