During preseason, a common phrase you’ll hear thrown around is base training.  So what is it? In a nutshell, there are two main types of training: aerobic and anaerobic.  Aerobic training focuses on improving cardiorespiratory endurance.  Anaerobic training focuses on increasing muscular strength and your body’s ability to buffer lactic acid in the body.  So when we are base training, we are trying to keep our body in an aerobic state.  Anaerobic training is still important to the endurance athlete, but for the sake of discussion, we will keep this to the base training and talk about anaerobic training in another article.