Hi everyone,
I found a great interview that was posted on the internet on December 5th 2012. Salazar talks about the year 2012 and much more :
http://competitorradio.competitor.com/2012/12/alberto-salazar-2/
Hi everyone,
I found a great interview that was posted on the internet on December 5th 2012. Salazar talks about the year 2012 and much more :
http://competitorradio.competitor.com/2012/12/alberto-salazar-2/
Thanks for posting this!
Just finished listening, excellent interview, great find!
Great thoughts on running specificity, running for non-elites, weight work, soft-surface running, etc.
Always great to hear from elite coaches. However, once it turned to talking about tris...
Thanks so much everyone who sees the link watch it when you can
who are the 8 athletes/runners?
AlSal is a egomaniac with black Amex card handed out by P. K., he's no coach.
Interesting how obsessed he is with avoiding road runs.
Can someone give a summary?
CluffyUno wrote:
Interesting how obsessed he is with avoiding road runs.
I always find it interesting how indifferent people are to the surfaces they run on. I go way out of my way to avoid running on roads/concrete.
It blows my mind when I see people running on the paths in the park with beautiful soft grass on either side. What are you doing you maniacs!?
Centro getting major hype. Can't wait to see him run indoors.
I wish Al Sal was my coach : (
Pavement is my favorite type of surface to run on. If I had the choice of running on either pavement or grass, I would choose pavement.
I can count seven.FarahRuppRitzCentroUlreyLindsay Allen (?)Mary Cain
RuKiddingME!!! wrote:
who are the 8 athletes/runners?
Tara Erdmann would be the 8th.
Yep--thanks.
nikeman wrote:
Tara Erdmann would be the 8th.
1. Do weights. High weights. Progressing to higher weights.
2. Do core work.
3. Stretch.
4. Do drills. Including sprint drills. These things build athleticism.
5. Do as much mileage as possible without breaking down.
6. Cross-train once you hit the maximum mileage you can handle without breaking down.
7. Running specificity cannot be beaten.
8. Progress year to year.
9. Do all of the little things (proper nutrition, eating at the right times, supplements like fish oils and anti-inflammatories, sleep, psychology). All of them together give you the maximum benefit. Most people make the mistake of only doing one or two of them.
10. Only run on the road to train for a marathon. Galen and Mo did three workouts on the road before New York, and that's it. If he catches his runners on the road he wants to know why they're on the road. He says they average maybe 3 miles a week (out of 100) on the roads, just to get from one trail to the next, etc. It sounded like they mostly avoid the track except in track season as well. He said when he was running he might have run 20 out of 120 miles on the roads.
11. If you're running for health, 25-30 miles per week is all you need, but you should also supplement that with cross-training, stretching, core, and weights for mobility and health.
12. Centro's moved over to the group full-time now and is in better shape than last year already and he's going to rock this year.
13. Mo does 125 miles a week outside. Galen does 100 and is going up to 105 (average) this year, plus 20 miles on the HydroWorx Underwater Treadmill (TM).
14. Galen has more raw speed. Mo is not allowed to do all-out sprints with Galen because Galen might be 5/8 of a second faster and Alberto wouldn't want Mo to hurt himself going too hard.
15. Mo didn't do all-out sprints this year. He was already the best kicker in the world, so there was no reason to work on improving that at the risk of injury.
16. Dathan is not able to run more than 100 miles a week outside without breaking down.
17. Dathan has to run more on the roads and risk injury more because he's a marathoner.
18. To help Dathan avoid injury, they've installed a HydroWorx Underwater Treadmill (TM) in his house so they'll be sure he uses it.
19. Mo might do 10k/marathon at the 2016 Olympics, but maybe just 10k.
20. Galen's sticking to 5k/10k through 2016.
21. Centro's sticking to 1500 through 2016.
22. Alberto had a lot of athletes apply to join after the Olympics but turned them down. He won't work with people who are just aiming to be Olympians. His mandate is to build medalists. A few are more "long-shots" than the others, but all of his athletes are aiming for the podium.
23. Alberto likes it that everyone makes fun of his gadgets, because then it will take them 5 years to adopt the technology, by which time he will already have moved on to the next thing and still have an advantage. As examples, he said all of the pro sports teams and college teams now have Alter-Gs and HydroWorx Underwater Treadmills (TM), which he was the first one to adopt.
24. Galen takes two months a year off. He'll take 2 weeks completely off after a season, and he'll take 2 weeks of just jogging after that. That's twice a year.
I probably missed a few things, but that's the gist of it.
thanks for the summary. interesting about running on trails and not on roads.
Just to flesh out one thing--he bought the first four prototype Alter-Gs. Prior to that, there was only one in the founder's garage and one in the Stanford Medical Center. It was at that point that he said they are now all over the place.
livelikeaballer wrote:
1. Do weights. High weights. Progressing to higher weights.
2. Do core work.
3. Stretch.
4. Do drills. Including sprint drills. These things build athleticism.
5. Do as much mileage as possible without breaking down.
6. Cross-train once you hit the maximum mileage you can handle without breaking down.
7. Running specificity cannot be beaten.
8. Progress year to year.
9. Do all of the little things (proper nutrition, eating at the right times, supplements like fish oils and anti-inflammatories, sleep, psychology). All of them together give you the maximum benefit. Most people make the mistake of only doing one or two of them.
10. Only run on the road to train for a marathon. Galen and Mo did three workouts on the road before New York, and that's it. If he catches his runners on the road he wants to know why they're on the road. He says they average maybe 3 miles a week (out of 100) on the roads, just to get from one trail to the next, etc. It sounded like they mostly avoid the track except in track season as well. He said when he was running he might have run 20 out of 120 miles on the roads.
11. If you're running for health, 25-30 miles per week is all you need, but you should also supplement that with cross-training, stretching, core, and weights for mobility and health.
12. Centro's moved over to the group full-time now and is in better shape than last year already and he's going to rock this year.
13. Mo does 125 miles a week outside. Galen does 100 and is going up to 105 (average) this year, plus 20 miles on the HydroWorx Underwater Treadmill (TM).
14. Galen has more raw speed. Mo is not allowed to do all-out sprints with Galen because Galen might be 5/8 of a second faster and Alberto wouldn't want Mo to hurt himself going too hard.
15. Mo didn't do all-out sprints this year. He was already the best kicker in the world, so there was no reason to work on improving that at the risk of injury.
16. Dathan is not able to run more than 100 miles a week outside without breaking down.
17. Dathan has to run more on the roads and risk injury more because he's a marathoner.
18. To help Dathan avoid injury, they've installed a HydroWorx Underwater Treadmill (TM) in his house so they'll be sure he uses it.
19. Mo might do 10k/marathon at the 2016 Olympics, but maybe just 10k.
20. Galen's sticking to 5k/10k through 2016.
21. Centro's sticking to 1500 through 2016.
22. Alberto had a lot of athletes apply to join after the Olympics but turned them down. He won't work with people who are just aiming to be Olympians. His mandate is to build medalists. A few are more "long-shots" than the others, but all of his athletes are aiming for the podium.
23. Alberto likes it that everyone makes fun of his gadgets, because then it will take them 5 years to adopt the technology, by which time he will already have moved on to the next thing and still have an advantage. As examples, he said all of the pro sports teams and college teams now have Alter-Gs and HydroWorx Underwater Treadmills (TM), which he was the first one to adopt.
24. Galen takes two months a year off. He'll take 2 weeks completely off after a season, and he'll take 2 weeks of just jogging after that. That's twice a year.
I probably missed a few things, but that's the gist of it.
While listening I decided I wanted to buy and alter g treadmill.
One quick google search later... $75,000!!
