I tend to do peak my heavy lifts at around 8 on that scale.
I guess if you're doing the lifts easyish, you should be able to sustain it for 40 days. I've done up to seven days in a row of good effort st, and I think purposeful overtraining can be useful from time to time, as long as there's recovery time built in at some point. 40 solid days seems like a lot though. I'll be interested in hearing the results.
I've been doing something a little similar in my running. For the last couple of months I have been running almost everyday, but it's mostly rinky dink one-mile run-commutes with just three longer runs per week. Hard to say whether I'm benefiting from the more constant running or not, but it's nice to know it's possible. I suspect I'll start to see results in another month or two.
For squats and running, I think it's as Nick says. The squats will interfere with your immediate running, but over the long run, there should be some benefit. It's just a matter of finding a balance congruent with your goals. Obviously, you don't want to have really big legs if you're an endurance runner, but if you're practice recruiting powerful muscle fiber in your squats, then you should have more muscle to draw on in your runs. If I squat on Wednesday, I feel like I suffer no ill aftereffects by the time I go on my weekend long run Saturday or Sunday. 48 hours seems like adequate time for recovery. With deadlifts, the interference with running is even less.
In any case, your squat and deadlift maxes are great for a long distance trail runner, I would think. I feel the same way you do though, it's ridiculous I can bench more than I can squat, but that should change soon in my case. Not too long ago my deadlift was the same as my bench too, and now's approaching 1.5x, and should be 2x within another year.
I guess I'll pass without giving it a fair shake. Based on the reviews, it just sounds a little too good to be true, kind of like this:
And anyway, I'm kind of burnt out on this stuff. I'm kind of conservative fitness-wise, and I really hate reading about nutrition stuff. I would, however, be interested in hearing about any specific benefits you've attained.
that was my understanding: four hours per month. I do four hours of st per week, and still feel it's not enough.
Well, it's the same as the trialthlete endorsing the maff method. They were overtraining, so of course reducing training paid off for them.
Thanks, I'll have a look.
Yah, I always ease into new exercises until I get a feel for them. I only had 20lbs on my overhead squats yesterday . . .