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Tendons Adapt 2× Slower Than Muscles, Pace Training

One of the biggest issues that runners face is the slow timeline of tendon adaptation. We start to feel fitter before our tendons can adapt. Muscles start to show hypertrophy after ~6 week of progressive overload. Tendons are more in the 12-16 week range before we see things like increased thickness, collagen content etc. A key reason is that tendons don’t get great bloodflow. When a training volume/intensity imcreases in a linear fashion, tendons stuggle to keep up with the workload.