Supertraining

A lot of people have asked me this question, and I promise I will ask her, but 
right now she is in Florida for the next several weeks on vacation and I can't. 
She outlined my next several week program and gave it to me before she left. 
Curiosity got the better of me, which is why I asked here. Honest, I am not 
changing - and will not change under any circumstances - what my coach is 
telling me, she's the best and it's clearly working, I'm winning my races. All 
I want to know is what is the purpose and meaning of the various length of rest 
intervalls between sets. What is the purpose of a longer versus shorter rest 
interval? I'm so new to lifting that I don't always understand the purpose of 
what I'm doing, and for curiosity's sake I like to know. Not to change it but 
to understand it.

Everyone has been extremely helpful and I sure appreciate it, I'm definitely 
learning a lot here! Thank you everyone for helping me!!!! 

Susan Williams
Just west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
http://pennkayaker.com/wiki/members/members.asp?db=MemberPages&o=Lady%20Justice

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----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Stevens 

  <<<If your coach has a solid, empirically-based rationale for including 
  non-specific activity such as weight training with less than six weeks 
  to go before your endurance event, then she surely knows what the rest 
  intervals should be, and why. Why not ask her the rationale for the 
  rest intervals she prescribed?>>>