Scott Douglas asks, "Why Don’t More Elites Post Their Training Online?"

I guess this could have been a decent thread, but as usual, on LRC, it wanders all over the place nothing gets resolved or answered.

The question was "why don't more elites post their training on line?" One response (there may be many) could be "Why should they?" And of what importance is it to anyone? "There is no secret" Is it the workouts that make them elite? Is their genetic make-up posted? Their inspiration? Motivation?

Factors contributing to their emotional, spiritual, mental, social and environmental health? Is a weeks worth of training worth looking at? Two weeks? A year? What got them to that point? Too many variables.

Ray wrote:

I guess this could have been a decent thread, but as usual, on LRC, it wanders all over the place nothing gets resolved or answered.

The question was "why don't more elites post their training on line?" One response (there may be many) could be "Why should they?" And of what importance is it to anyone? "There is no secret" Is it the workouts that make them elite? Is their genetic make-up posted? Their inspiration? Motivation?

Factors contributing to their emotional, spiritual, mental, social and environmental health? Is a weeks worth of training worth looking at? Two weeks? A year? What got them to that point? Too many variables.

Sometimes I just liked to see the splits these guys hit in their workouts. It puts a new perspective on their fitness for me.

Same thing with training. It seemed cool at first to give it away but now people realize, "Hey if everyone trains the same, then I'll lose to the most talented person."[/quote]

Elite runners are never going to train exactly the sname but in one was all training is pretty similar and its not the training that is the difference but the talent of the runner followed by the application required to fulfill that talent

Peter Coe share all his training. Horwill the same. If he can do it others should plus Canova does on here.

A good place for traininng of elites in the BMC (British miles club) site under magazines. Free access to all their older magazines with tons of training of the champions for middle and long distance plus interviews etc

http://www.britishmilersclub.com/bmcnews/news80.asp

True all around. And I do greatly enjoy tracking the day-to-day of the pros that use Strava regularly. Especially my home-town-hero, Ben True, who posts in extensive detail.

Ray wrote:

I guess this could have been a decent thread, but as usual, on LRC, it wanders all over the place nothing gets resolved or answered.

The question was "why don't more elites post their training on line?" One response (there may be many) could be "Why should they?" And of what importance is it to anyone? "There is no secret" Is it the workouts that make them elite? Is their genetic make-up posted? Their inspiration? Motivation?

Factors contributing to their emotional, spiritual, mental, social and environmental health? Is a weeks worth of training worth looking at? Two weeks? A year? What got them to that point? Too many variables.

Sometimes I just liked to see the splits these guys hit in their workouts. It puts a new perspective on their fitness for me.[/quote]

I don't disagree.

I think Salazr used to post workouts of his athletes but stopped because people got hurt trying to emulate them

I could see coaches and athletes having a desire to hide their training plans/strategy. I tend to think this would not be a massive concern to most. That does not seem nearly as important as hiding your true fitness level. Another athlete's coach could derive a fair amount of information, I would think, by analyzing split times and overall trends of pace. This could prove useful in a championship/Olympic type race where strategy tends to make a big difference.

Whatever happened to Kevin Batt's SWEAT app?

istigk3it wrote:

This could prove useful in a championship/Olympic type race where strategy tends to make a big difference.

Not in the men's 5k/10k. It's almost always a slow sit and kick race no matter how many times it doesn't work.