You need to better familiarise yourself with tense. I said, every elite runs not "has run" or "did run".
Choosing one runner that competed 50 years ago (from the 10,000 plus other elites that have existed since then) doesn't prove a point. We can all cherry-pick anecdotes that go against the overwhelming consensus.
I doubt you could find any examples of runners that competed at the Paris Olympics (from 1,500m - Marathon) that didn't run at least 80mpw in their base period. And if you excluded the 1,500m and the Steeplechase, I doubt you'd find any doing less than 90mpw. All male elite runners from 5k-marathon would regularly be doing over 100mpw. Not "many";All.
That may be true for male runners.
But there is no way Valby is running 90mpw. I don't think she ever did a single week of 90 miles.
And why can't a male runner do the same? Run 3-4 times a week, mostly workouts. And then do a lot of arc trainer sessions, including doubles. How is that inferior to 90mpw if you can actually handle more aerobic exercises this way?
You need intensity & volume. If I had to pick one I'd go with volume. But I do think there's a point where you get very little in return for doing a ton of volume. If you're trying to be the best in the world you take that risk & try to pick up seconds.
You need to better familiarise yourself with tense. I said, every elite runs not "has run" or "did run".
Choosing one runner that competed 50 years ago (from the 10,000 plus other elites that have existed since then) doesn't prove a point. We can all cherry-pick anecdotes that go against the overwhelming consensus.
I doubt you could find any examples of runners that competed at the Paris Olympics (from 1,500m - Marathon) that didn't run at least 80mpw in their base period. And if you excluded the 1,500m and the Steeplechase, I doubt you'd find any doing less than 90mpw. All male elite runners from 5k-marathon would regularly be doing over 100mpw. Not "many";All.
That may be true for male runners.
But there is no way Valby is running 90mpw. I don't think she ever did a single week of 90 miles.
And why can't a male runner do the same? Run 3-4 times a week, mostly workouts. And then do a lot of arc trainer sessions, including doubles. How is that inferior to 90mpw if you can actually handle more aerobic exercises this way?
Because most of the characteristics acquired through training occur in the working muscles. Running trains the specific muscle fibres to acquire a higher volume of mitochondria and capillarisation. These are the heavy-hitters of running economy.
You aren't just lungs on legs. Simply doing "cardio" won't have the same affect as doing the specific exercise in which you compete. The Arc Trainer will have a peripheral benefit, but it isn't a direct substitute for actually running.
Valby is one incredibly talented athlete, but the other 99.99% of elite runners aren't training that way - including all of the other people that finished ahead of her at the US trials and the Olympic games.
I know what you said and what you said is just pure speculation and you know it is. I know for a fact that you don't know what 'All' these elite athletes are up to in training preparation.
The truth is, elite athletes prepare many different ways to reach peak performance. It is all out there for you to have a look at if you want to.
Well high intensity, low mileage training that dominated the 1990s didn’t work so well historically for American distance running. But if you want to try that again I say go for it!
Well, one of the very best runners then on American soil was the college/ University Kenyan runner Michael Mysyoki. He dominated the American road pro circus on around 50-60 mpw training and broke the half marathon world record and took a bronze Olympic 10000m medal. He told in interviews he hadn't time to train more but obviously it worked very well.
The USA runners didn't succeed on low mileage I'm sure they didn't know how to train best on low mileage.
Well high intensity, low mileage training that dominated the 1990s didn’t work so well historically for American distance running. But if you want to try that again I say go for it!
Well, one of the very best runners then on American soil was the college/ University Kenyan runner Michael Mysyoki. He dominated the American road pro circus on around 50-60 mpw training and broke the half marathon world record and took a bronze Olympic 10000m medal. He told in interviews he hadn't time to train more but obviously it worked very well.
The USA runners didn't succeed on low mileage I'm sure they didn't know how to train best on low mileage.
Absolutely wrong. Michael Musyoki, not Mysyoki, ran a lot more that 50-60mi/week. Stop lying.
Well, one of the very best runners then on American soil was the college/ University Kenyan runner Michael Mysyoki. He dominated the American road pro circus on around 50-60 mpw training and broke the half marathon world record and took a bronze Olympic 10000m medal. He told in interviews he hadn't time to train more but obviously it worked very well.
The USA runners didn't succeed on low mileage I'm sure they didn't know how to train best on low mileage.
Absolutely wrong. Michael Musyoki, not Mysyoki, ran a lot more that 50-60mi/week. Stop lying.
Even if he did. That doesn’t mean he wouldn’t have been better on high mileage.
All top distance runners run high mileage.
If you think you think your way is better than what the best do, the burden of proof is on you. The best have nothing to prove. They’re already the best.
We saw this with Keto. We’re still waiting for Keto athletes to dominate endurance sports.
why does everyone on here treat the OP as if they are posting about distance running? When I read it, I thought the OP was in regards to the 100m. I'm not sure how running 80 miles a week would make someone faster than the person running a more traditional 100m training program.
Well, one of the very best runners then on American soil was the college/ University Kenyan runner Michael Mysyoki. He dominated the American road pro circus on around 50-60 mpw training and broke the half marathon world record and took a bronze Olympic 10000m medal. He told in interviews he hadn't time to train more but obviously it worked very well.
The USA runners didn't succeed on low mileage I'm sure they didn't know how to train best on low mileage.
Absolutely wrong. Michael Musyoki, not Mysyoki, ran a lot more that 50-60mi/week. Stop lying.
No, he didn't. Told he was very time limited with other things going on in his life.
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