By Andy Blow
Many athletes have been facing limitations on their training, but the news for your fitness might not be as dire as you think.
The science behind detraining, or ‘reversibility’ of fitness, as it’s sometimes known, isn’t as complete as you might expect it to be. This is especially true when it comes to detraining in elite athletes, mainly because it’s tough to find a reliable and long list of really fit athletes who are willing to deliberately lose hard-earned fitness, just for the sake of a research paper!
That said, there’s a reasonable amount of literature on the subject from detraining studies among groups of ‘moderately fit’ volunteers. Combined with various case studies using elite athletes who’ve had to take time off due to illness or injury, we can make some strong connections.
Rather than dive too deeply into those studies, I’m going to focus on blending key points from the science with my…
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