I have no doubt they are very effective. He's has great success. After reading the LR article about him and Drew Hunter I had a question.
If you have an athlete running 1k intervals at 90% VO2Max which is at the highest end of the LT zone why wouldn't you have your athlete run the 5k continuous at that pace without breaks?
To the grammar police: "He is having great success."
jimbo1 wrote:
I have no doubt they are very effective. He's has great success. After reading the LR article about him and Drew Hunter I had a question.
If you have an athlete running 1k intervals at 90% VO2Max which is at the highest end of the LT zone why wouldn't you have your athlete run the 5k continuous at that pace without breaks?
Because splitting stuff up is felt to give the same training effect with less wear on the body.
jimbo1 wrote:
I have no doubt they are very effective. He's has great success. After reading the LR article about him and Drew Hunter I had a question.
If you have an athlete running 1k intervals at 90% VO2Max which is at the highest end of the LT zone why wouldn't you have your athlete run the 5k continuous at that pace without breaks?
Any Tinman question go to therunzone.com, he generally responds there and there are others very close to him on the website