Endurance training, especially in game sports, is still subject to the common belief that athletes need to perform linear endurance runs in order to improve their endurance performance. While longer runs undoubtedly improve basic endurance, there is one thing they do not do: improve endurance performance specific to the sport. The proportions of the different energy systems vary depending on the type of sport, and specific training is now scientifically proven to be clearly superior to longer runs. You can find out more about this in the article, along with training examples from the sport of handball.
