Question About Jacke Daniel's Training?

Do the easiest level that still gives you results.

There are 16:30 guys out there who, if they did the red program, would still get better. But they would have less chance of injury AND have more potential for further success down the road with a less aggressive approach

Lenny Leonard wrote:

Do the easiest level that still gives you results.

There are 16:30 guys out there who, if they did the red program, would still get better. But they would have less chance of injury AND have more potential for further success down the road with a less aggressive approach

Nah. Do the most mileage you can. Miles make champions. While you rest there's a Kenyan out in the bush getting stronger.

quickQ for LetsRun wrote:

In his book there are 4 plans:

White

Red

Blue

Gold

And then individualized plans later when you determine you want to specialize.

Going based on 5K time what would you say for each is the cut off?

white - never ran before

red - 24:00

blue - 18:00

gold - 16:30

??

It's not supposed to be based off of a time, it's based off of your experience and ability to handle training loads. There could be a 16:30 person in the White plan.

So say a runner who is currently running mid 40s miles a week, all slow mileage (6 days a week) and is around high 18s low 19s. Has been running for 12 months.

Should he start in the red plan? Or blue? (Hypothetically)

Only one way to find out, try it..

the coloured plans are mostly about fitness, less about being ready for a specific event. makes very little sense to talk about times associated to each, if it made sense jack himself would have said so.

Oh, so no matter what your current times are across the board, the colored plans can potentially build more fitness. Now it makes sense to me. Even a 16 minutes 5K guy could -potentially- gain more fitness on the red plan, depending on what he was doing previously. If all he was doing was slow long runs then the red plan might work.

Thanks for the insight!

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Someone on Letsrun admitted they learned something. Is it a sign of the Apocalypse or just a minor miracle?

What does whiskey have to do with training?

What does whiskey have to do with training?

I guess it helps that I am not a know it all like many of the posters to begin with. :)

Man throw that book away. So sick of HS kids running around with that book and never getting anywhere. Sick of hearing about Jack Daniels book.

If you're training correctly... everything.

lucas tanner wrote:

What does whiskey have to do with training?

I've used a lot of the JD stuff in the past. The hardest thing is to get athletes/runners to critically look at where they are, what they have done previously and accurately assess what they are able to handle. My philosophy typically is do "one too few" instead of "one too many". A culmination of those "one too many" days are what leads runners (weekend warriors and inexperienced alike) to injuries/burn out. While the one too few approach always seems to leave a little "meat on the bone" to continue to grow improve and build.