Renato Canova - Can you provide any insights to Kwemoi's training?

I will admit you have a good point here...

What is the situation of Mosop? Is there any chance he could return to his previous shape and look for a marathon under 2.05 again?

Coach Canova, are you still coaching Caleb Ndiku? If so, can you provide insights into his recent training as well? What are your thoughts about Caleb compared to Ronald in the abilities and potential? Both are sub-3:30 1500m runners and Caleb pushed Mo Farah pretty hard in the 2015 World Championship 5k final.

Renato, what do you think about Sondre Nordstad Moen's future in marathoning? Obviously his new NR was good. Do you have high hopes for him in the future?

Coach Canova,

Are there any specific technical exercises that work well for a majority of runners to improve their biomechanics? Have any of your top runners changed their biomechanics with success? Without asking you to speak against her coach at the time, would you say Mary Cain has better biomechanics now or while she was still "raw" running for her high school team?

What value do you place upon stretching? Are certain muscle groups better off not stretching at all for a distance runner? Are there certain muscle groups that nearly all distance runners could benefit from if they were more flexible? How much time, if any, do your top runners tend to stretch?

Do women and men need the same ferritin levels in general for long term vitality and performance? What values do you feel are optimal? Do certain countries' runners seem to be more depleted of iron than others?

Do you place much importance on other markers in the blood, such as folate, vitamin-d, b-12, etc.? More specifically, if you were taking on a new athlete, would you have them get tested for anything up front or rather wait until they seem to be having problems and then get them tested?

What is your opinion on a female runner not having their period? Is this always a sign of asking too much of the body, or does it depend on the circumstances?

How much weight do your top athletes tend to lose at the different periods of training? Will they try to maintain their weight once they are a certain period out from a championship, such as 2-4 weeks?

What do you think about heavily cushioned shoes, such as Hokas? If money is not a problem, how often should one get new shoes?

In general, have you noticed athletes do better when single or when married? Or is there no distinct trend?

Will you write an auto-biography eventually, sharing your experiences with the many amazing athletes you've worked with?

Is there a limit to how many questions one can ask?

Thank you for sharing all that you have.

Don't feed the trolls Renato!

Most of us enjoy your training insights. Stick with that stuff and ignore the crazies trying to get you off topic.

Thanks for posting! I hope you keep it up

Dear Coach Canova, thanks once again for sharing insight of your training programs.

I would like to ask you about one of my favourite kenians lady, (also for her personal life ) the great Florence Kiplagat.

In london this year she finish in 2h26'25" in 9th place.

How was her race? Did she had some problems during the race or in the training.?

It seems to me that maybe in London she was in good shape but not in her best shape. And also I think how is difficult to be in her best shape after years years of great wins and world records

It seems , but i can be wrong, that she has like 2 kilos overweight compared

to his 2015 ,2016 shape . Is it true?

Thanks Mr Canova

Canova's schedules show the contrary. He has Kwemoi doing quite low intensity but very high volume in the months ahead of specific training.

The Obvious Answer wrote:

Stop replying to yourself, you compete and utter fukwit.

I think you are a being a bit unfair. We have a foreign coach who, like Canova, is posting some of his experiences of training very high level runners. You are free to not agree with his coaching philosophy but at least respect the fact that he sharing his ideas.

My understanding is that repeats need to last at least 4 minutes order to improve v02max. Shorter repeats can still be at "v02max pace" but aren't training v02. Instead, much more straightforward, you are describing repeats at 3000m pace.

Therefore your evidence ,more simply put, says, "the more you run at 3000m pace then more economical you become at 3000m pace". That's true for just about every pace. Describing these repeats as v02max pace repeats is misleading since the stimulus has nothing to do with v02max other than a the incidentally overlap in v02max pace and 3000m pace.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

Man Calculo you are really trying to piss Deano off and maybe Renato as well. 'Peter Coe is useless.' Weights don't work for every athlete and should be confined to rehab for some. Core work is a must but it really depends on body type. My arms & shoulders are too big for longer distance training, I don't know how Solinsky did it.

44.00 for Korir is nuts. That would have made him 4th last year in the Olympics.

The 44.7 he did was at altitude and would have barely been under 45s at sea level.

This idiot actually thinks altitude hinders the 400m.

Grazie Renato ! Super !

Venerdì sera ho visto la gara con il mio allenatore Faganello e anche lui è rimasto colpito dalla prestazione del tuo atleta .

Ti porto i suoi saluti !

Io personalmente ho molta stima del tuo lavoro.

calculo ruined one of the most informative threads ever on this site.

I've attempted to clean up this thread and prevent it from getting hijacked. Got a few complaints.

If someone wants to start a thread about Jan's training that can be done elsewhere. As for calculo's posts I think with one post instead of 3 he could have asked a nice question about wanting to use weights but I've left them up.

Yep. Canova was shedding a great light on world class training... Now the VO2 max and weight lifting idiots have taken over. Questions for each of them.... What are your coaching accomplishments against Canova's?

Fck it this is ruined now

They don't do weights

BECAUSE KIPCHOGE JUST RAN 26 4:35 MILES BACK TO BACK WITHOUT EVER DOING A DAMN SIT-UP OR PUSH-UP!!

Jan, Eliud doesn't use any gym during the last 10 weeks of preparation. This is the same choice of Wilson Kipsang and Abel Kirui, who use gym AFTER a marathon, for about 2 months (2 times per week), but after maintain the strength endurance using only running, at different speeds, and on different courses.

Among women, Mary Keitany, Vivian Cheruiyot and Florence Kiplagat (for speaking about the top runners of the last 10 years) don't go gym never, also if do some technical exercise (not in the gym, but on the field inside the track) during the fundamental period.

Weights only help up to 1500m, and even at 1500m, you can run fast without.

Seb Coe was a rich @ss punk with all the resources in the world and could only run 3:29.77 / 3:47.33 and he was doing weights all the time.