Crash Training: How to be a winner in seven days. (New book idea)

Training Advice/Discussion 5k/10k

8 years ago 08/29/2015 5:30pm EDT

I have been vigorously experimenting on my body for a few years now and am getting close to perfect the ultimate 7 day crash training program for distances of 5k 10k. The essentials are:

6 workouts in two consecutive days then 3 days of recovery exercises followed by 1 day of rest and 1 day of shakeout workouts before the race

Nutritional needs are as followed.

All you can eat carbs the first two days followed by intermittent fasting for three days, one day of loading and another day of fasting.

Has anyone else tried something like this? Or would you want to? The prerequisites to the plan are at least a 14 day period of running or cross training.

8 years ago 08/29/2015 5:46pm EDT

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Crash and win wrote:
I have been vigorously experimenting on my body for a few years now and am getting close to perfect the ultimate 7 day crash training program for distances of 5k 10k. The essentials are:
6 workouts in two consecutive days then 3 days of recovery exercises followed by 1 day of rest and 1 day of shakeout workouts before the race
Nutritional needs are as followed.
All you can eat carbs the first two days followed by intermittent fasting for three days, one day of loading and another day of fasting.
Has anyone else tried something like this? Or would you want to? The prerequisites to the plan are at least a 14 day period of running or cross training.

What kind of times are you running off this?

8 years ago 08/29/2015 6:10pm EDT

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This is not really a book Idea and is not new. It was started by Snell and Steve Ovett was doing it (correctly) a long time ago.

This is an old post by Frank Horwill about how to do it:

http://www.serpentine.org.uk/pages/advice_frank19.html

You need sharp reduction in normal training for an equivalent time to the crash, and you need sharply increased nutrition. If you are going to do this for a race, you need about a week of sharply reduced training leading into the race.

8 years ago 08/29/2015 7:04pm EDT

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Interesting. Would you list the program as a day by day schedule? I'd be willing to test it out a week or two, then time trial a 2 mile or 5K and report back with how it affected me

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