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The weather has been nice for the past month and I have been trying to increase my running days/amounts, but even with a day of rest prior, it seems to be negatively effecting my deadlifts. I think I complained about this recovery time problem around this time last year. It's one of those things that makes me strongly suspect the "hybrid athletes" who are running huge miles one day and deadlifting big numbers the next are on all gear.
Far be it from me to get in the way of a good "everyone stronger than me is on gear" post, but consider that people naturally at the tail of the work capacity distribution get amplified on social media.
It takes a serious suspension of disbelief to consider people have not just found a workaround to "big, lean, natural... pick two," but also doing so while simultaneously putting up big run distances at fast times.
It's not a workaround. Big and lean are relative terms. Anybody could be bigger and leaner on gear than they can be natty. Nevertheless, it's a mistake to think that everyone has the same natty bigness and leanness ceiling.
Some people are just better.
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