Check out how he put's in some of his daily miles:
Check out how he put's in some of his daily miles:
In Running Times they said he has to have the thing at his house and not at the Nike campus because of liability issues.
In this article: "Rupp, silver gold medalist" (wrong) and "Coming off his first Olympics" (wrong)
Are you a secret trackfocus salesman or something? Link to the actual post: http://blog.hydroworx.com/index.php/2013/01/04/galen-rupps-backyard-showpiece-a-two-page-feature/
So how different is this thing from just running laps in a normal lane pool?
Man, I could have used one of those last summer after meeting a cute girl at the backyard bbq I hosted.
Lepperd wrote:
In this article: "Rupp, silver gold medalist" (wrong)
That's even worse than when people say "American world record"
The famous max magooski wrote:
So how different is this thing from just running laps in a normal lane pool?
There are like these jet things that provide resistance and a treadmill belt at the bottom.
I like how his dog was placed up on the deck. He owns a Boston Terrier. Worlds ugliest dog breed.
The Chinese Crested is the world's ugliest dog. How could you say the Boston Terrier? How unpatriotic.
While we are revealing personal info about Galen, here is his car:
http://www.celebritycarz.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/banks3.jpg
not much of a yard
What is more favorable as supplement workouts: a pool like this or the Alter G?
That is not his car. And the rumors about the white Bentley are probably also unfounded.
He likely drives something very nondescript. His house seems modest enough.
The Alter G is closer to real running but it's more impact. The Hydroworx is something that you can do as a supplement to get the legs moving more with practically no impact. The downside is that there's no impact because it's quite far from real running, so you're getting less of the benefit of real running.
Think of it this way. For a normal guy like me, my options are run on normal surfaces, road or grass, or don't run at all. 100% of the risk for 100% of the benefit or 0% of the risk for 0% of the benefit. Someone with an Alter G can take a portion of their planned mileage and run it on a machine that gives them 60% of the benefit of running on real surfaces with only 30% of the risk. Someone with a Hydroworx can run a portion of their mileage at 30% percent of the benefit of normal surfaces with only about 10% of the risk. So the ideal is to run as much as you can on a normal land surface, then push the mileage a bit on the Alter G(going into the kind of mileage territory that would be "risky" for you), then top it off with running on the Hydroworx for good measure.
A typical week for Ritz is 90 on land, 15 on Alter G, 10 on Hydroworx. So he could probably do 115 mpw on land and be fine, but the Alter G is there as a safety measure to take that "probably" away, with the acknowledgement that he's sacrificing some of the benefits of doing that 15 miles on land. That 10 on the Hydroworx is there because he can easily recover from the 115 and be ready for more, but the benefit of doing more on land or Alter G isn't worth the risk.
So to answer your question, the Alter G isn't really a supplement but a replacement. And the Hydroworx is somewhere between supplement(like swimming) and replacement(like Alter G). Personally, I'd rather have the Hydroworx because I'm not injury prone and I'm comfortable gauging the amount of mileage I can do on normal surfaces. It would just be nice to have something else that mimics running(but isn't actually running) to do in the recovery time between runs. O'm actually pretty sure that Rupp and Farah don't even use the Alter G on a regular basis.
I especially like running as it's fun, it's freedom, and there's no danger of drowning.
If I wanted to swim I would swim.
J.R. wrote:
I especially like running as it's fun, it's freedom, and there's no danger of drowning.
If I wanted to swim I would swim.
Yup, Rupp is cross-training. A mortal sin in the "real" running wurld.
I just realized my math sucks.
Rupp=Boring; no one care...
"...silver gold medalist"
As in silver? Medallist?
"...uses the underwater treadmill as part of his intense training regiment"
As in regimen?
Sub-literacy is great.