Bored with intervals

Beppu wrote:

When you try a new training method, how long are you sticking to it? Keep in mind, often training methods - such as "more threshold work" is a part of a macrocycle that should make up a 6-12 month period.

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If you really want to run your best, it requires targeting a race in 10 months or so and sticking to a system until then, not questioning it week in week out. It's only after seeing a system through at least 1 full cycle (if not more) that you can truly determine if it is/isn't for you - this where common sense comes in. We don't have time to test every different system on every individual, so you need to decide what you think you will respond best to and experiment from there.

If someone has capt his/her volume for several month or even years, you do not need to wait another 10 month to see if something new works or not.

After 6 weeks or training, you should do a new performance testing and react based on the result. Continuing several month the same without improving, is just bad training and nothing else.

You misunderstood me. A training program should not be the same for the entire cycle. But just because you are running worse after a few weeks on a program does not mean the program isn't working - we can't always be linearly improving. The phases of a training cycle have reason for why they are there. The first period of any training cycle is generally longer, continuous, low intensity aerobic work. This may or may not make someone improve in 4 weeks time, but it lays a foundation for the second phase of the training cycle.