Don’t read things into what I said that I did not say.
The old Russian model was sort of what your’e last sentence was. Hammer them for 6 months until they are all overtrained and then taper and pray they hit their peak. It works when you have thousands of throwaway athletes and lots of drugs.
Do’nt take this to a stupid extreme.
AS to your other post, there has to be some degree of specifiity and it’s not pointless volume for the sake of pointless volume.
As well, most (e.g. modern OL’ing) has moved to a much more intensity based regime. Working at 75% in the OL’s simoply doesn’t prepar you to work at 90%
Same reason that jogging doesn’t prepare you for sprinting even though it’s high volume/lower intensity.
It’s a matter of degrees.
Lyle