You know me too well, but in this case you whiffed; I was being ironic.Be careful now. Don't overdo it, you are a danger to yourself .
You know me too well, but in this case you whiffed; I was being ironic.Be careful now. Don't overdo it, you are a danger to yourself .
You know me too well, but in this case you whiffed, I was being ironic.
As for running the method I have always heard to do it on a tmill set a high incline >12% run as fast as you can for 20 seconds hop off an rest for 10 seconds. The whole workout is 4 minutes and IT SUCKS.
I like your trainning I would love to include swimmimg into my workouts but I sink .
Don't worry about dropping pounds the Holidays have arrived! You are at a healthy weight-right?
Yeah, the holidays should "help me out" but it is a newish thing to have a decreased appetite. I know this can happen with age. I'm a nurse by training, and have heard a lot about encouraging older people to eat adequately. At least I' aware, so I shouldn't fade away.... more bacon and buttered popcorn?I have being trying to put weight on for years but it doesn't happens so I'll just accepted my skinny self the way I am.
I think I'm going to just make it a goal next year to see how far I do run, not set a goal. I know that will be more realistic for me.Well, I think it's officially time for me to give up on the 500 miles for the year goal. It will be close, but I've got some things coming up in the next couple weeks that I know is going to keep me off running for a week or so and plus because of me having to take more rest days this week than planned after that 5k race it would be silly for me to keep pushing and trying to run farther than my body likes just to catch up just so I can reach some arbitrary goal. Next year I will easily run more than 500 because I am going to stay injury free, so I will just take this as a learning year. Oh well, guess I am free now to implement my new running and workout schedule I've been thinking about for a little bit but been holding off on due to trying to reach this goal. It will be running 3 days a week and bike and gym the other 3 days with 1 full day of recovery with no actual exercise. Ok, off for my hilly run.
Oh, I already have plans to work sprints in, you're right about that, just not quite yet. You should know that from my incessant blathering about training plans and varied running. I want to keep doing intervals and then when the pace of those starts dropping and my legs are a bit stronger, I'll try out-and-out sprints. But I might shear something off if I were to go out and try them right now. And anyway, just running 7mm pace feels like sprinting in my present condition.Ha! yea and I am the Queen Elizabeth, I bet your leg that your're going to try them on your next workout
Sorry, just to clarify, that Tabata scheme I copied was a modification by a French physiologist who supposedly worked out the optimal intervals.
I don't think I'll be doing anything on a treadmill though. I need to be outside. If I could, I'd move my weights outside too.
When I hear about novel ways of doing things that break tradition, I ask myself is there money involved and is this a small sample size? This seems to apply to strategies that eschew LSD, and to unique individuals that achieve success using atypical methods. For example, it still boggles my mind how Clarence Thomas ran a 3:11 in his first marathon with only months of training while his life was falling apart as an alcoholic. Exceptional, yes! A method to be dissected and codified? Ummm, well...Sorry, just to clarify, that Tabata scheme I copied was a modification by a French physiologist who supposedly worked out the optimal intervals...Magness, along a few others, has also been key in getting me to vary my running, for all the reasons he explains in his critique of Crosscult.
Which one you doing? Good luck. I expect another scintillating Abidean race report next week.
I think for our purposes, just alternating days is enough, since most adaptations happen within 24 hours after the workout, right? Although in my weekly schedule, I do put the longest run after a strength-training day that has nothing to do with the lower body, just to make sure the legs are fresh:Interesting. That Science of Running site gives the impression endurance training can diminish strength training.
"Endurance and strength gains fight each other a bit for adaptation. While I don’t want to get bogged down in the details, if we look at the signaling pathway for some endurance adaptations and then muscle hypertrophy which are two goals of CF and CFE, we can see that they interact and in fact impair each other in some cases. For example, doing endurance work right after strength can impair hypertrophy because the mTOR pathway(which signals hypertrophy among other things) is basically switched off with endurance work. This isn’t meant to show that they are mutually exclusive, but instead to show that when you do things matters."
This study seems to suggest the same.
Effect of concurrent endurance and circuit resistance training sequence on muscular strength and power development
So does that mean that it would be optimal to do short, fast runs during the same week as strength training? If so, then what should be paired with endurance? Agility and plyometrics? Or is it enough to just alternate strength and endurance on different days?
@Abide, you could just copy your last race report "I ran it and finished" but maybe trying working in an adverb or even adverbial clause or something fancy like that this time around, to spice things up and draw the reader in. For example: "I ran it and finished happily"; or, "I ran it well and finished after a particularly hard last stretch."
@Abide, where do you dig stuff up stuff like the Litvinov training? You're like an encyclopedia of ST training protocols. Anyway, thanks but no thanks. I got a nice little running and ST weekly routine happening right now, and I'm getting really tired of contemplating all the alternative training protocols. I'll wait till I get bored, re-injured, or stop progressing before I'll look at something else. Right now I'm dreaming of 2BW deadlifts and running continuously for an hour at 8mm pace, and that's quite enough for me.
I liked this article about the dumbness of doing weights on unstable platforms: http://www.charlespoliquin.com/Arti...ery_Dumb_Training_Recommendations_Part_3.aspx
For now anywaysI channeled the spirit of Dama and tried not to get too greedy. Paciência, I could hear her say in Spanish-inflected Portuguese, or Todo cuidado é pouco as my mother-in-law would often admonish. Plus I could visualize Dama mocking me cackingly in a Elizabethan period costume and enormous wig if I were to come here and report another injury-setback.
Hahaha, I am so glad I was there helping you with your workout and preventing you from doing stupid things.
@ Dama: note no Tabata temptation.
As far as differences between men and women, I thought this article was interesting.By the way here is another interesting article specifically about his thoughts on the difference between a male and female marathon runner.
Say, have you talked to your SO about August?
Too bad you don't live closer. I know I could teach you!
That is so sweet of you but I am going to tell you a little secret about myself just don't tell anyone else, I think I might be un-coachable because I am extremely stubborn and I like doing things my way and don't like people telling me what to do. But still it will be nice if lived closer at least we could go for a decent fun run, I can handle that.
Yeah, the holidays should "help me out" but it is a newish thing to have a decreased appetite. I know this can happen with age. I'm a nurse by training, and have heard a lot about encouraging older people to eat adequately. At least I' aware, so I shouldn't fade away.... more bacon and buttered popcorn?