Haven't some people on this board criticized JD for not including enough below-threshold-training in his marathon program?
Haven't some people on this board criticized JD for not including enough below-threshold-training in his marathon program?
Do you find the order of phases that Daniel's prescribes with Base-Reps-intervals-Tempo to work for you? The Rep section seems too early, for XC season depending upon your length of phases would be pre-comp/early competition. I would think you might peak your runners early, running the faster stuff that early. I'm curious to your experiences and how you lay out your workouts
my understanding of rep work is about the full and total recovery. if you are running 200's at race pace or faster, after one rep you probably havent stressed you body too much. usually with interval training you would do a short rest so that early into the next rep you would be stressing your body and so on and so on. but with the full recovery you are pretty much starting from scratch with each rep. so you are basically practicing proper mechanics at race pace. the goal here is too work on economy and effieciency only...you shouldnt be stressing your body at all. you could do these year round without burning out, but you wouldnt run much faster either, cuz its just another piece of the puzzle. true vo2 work also improves economy, but it also improves vo2 and lactate threshold...that kind of triple wammy is what will peak out your runners too early.
No problem vcxc, I wasn't clear with my explaination.
I use the order of phases are base-tempo-intervals-reps. I agree it doesn't seem right for XC.
What is your logic behind putting reps at the end of the season? I have heard Daniels' argument for putting them early in the base, but he also says it can't hurt to have them any time. Any reason to specifically not have them early?
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Reps are essentially the same thing as Hill repeats, acutally instead of using reps, I have found much success in using hills before doing any interval style work. Much of it is simple. Base build for as long as you need, add some tempo style work in, some strides, then do tempo and hills while keeping mileage up, then level off and maintain mileage and do intervals along with tempo and reps. Then back off and recover more and focus on tempo and reps again. Simple plan. I have talked to jack about this before and his main point is for reps is to get the body to adapt to the harder work later. Just to prepare the muscles for longer faster work without rest.
Nick
How have you improved while using JD's system?
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