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=Easy Days and Junk Miles=
A common approach to optimizing [[Supercompensation]] and {{TrainingMonotony}} is to have 3 or fewer hard training days combined with a number of easier days. For this approach to work, the easy days need to be sufficiently easy. Carl Foster said "for best results make your hard days very, very hard and your easy days very, very easy". Running on the easy days is often referred to as "junk miles" as the only result of these miles is impaired recovery. If the benefits of training go down as the effort on easy days increases, why train at all on the easy days? So far I have found no evidence to indicate there is any training benefit from running on the easy days. In fact, all the evidence supports [[Supercompensation]] and {{TrainingMonotony}}, therefore I recommend only 3-4 times a week for most people.