Single string archery competitors: Train to not be tired or train while tired?
I shoot a 50# recurve and mostly enjoy doing walk through courses. However, if I do indoor shooting with the much higher shoots per minute rate, I experience fatigue pretty fast with that poundage. While my arms feel okay, after only ~40 shots, my rate of random fliers goes way up.
I know that the canonical answer is that I'm over bowed: if I wanted to take indoor competition seriously I don't think there's any reason to go over 40#. Ignoring that for now, I'm curious how serious indoor competitors approach fatigue. Given my experience in other sports, there's two approaches:
- Training not to fatigue. This involves mostly focusing on building strength so that instead of fatigue kicking in ~40 shots, it usually kicks in around ~80 shots.
- Training while fatigued. This involves embracing that fatigue is inevitable and making sure that you spend a very significant amount of your training time in the fatigued state and trying to improve your form in that state to ensure you're not muscling through bad form.
These are not mutually exclusive (training 2 is very likely to lead to improvement in 1) but they are very different approaches to training. (1) would suggest more focus on strength training while (2) would suggest more focus on working on form after stressing out your muscles.
For competitive indoor archers, how do you see these different approaches?