What would happen if you rested more or less than allowed by the talk test? If you rest more, you will slightly gain on the power side and lose some endurance benefits, not to mention time. If you rest less—sucking wind and letting your muscles burn—you will give your conditioning and body composition a short-term boost because your system perceives intense glycolysis as an emergency. But it must be done very sparingly—and only after building an aerobic base with talk-test restrained training. Overdo glycolytic work and there will be hell to pay.
