It’s genuinely concerning that you don’t know why she’s wearing this mask in training.
You're upset that I wasn't aware of what the latest $46,000 gimmick can do for an 800 runner?
I plead guilty. When I was coaching, I was too busy taking 1:53 Hsers and having them run 1:48 as freshman while making $13k per year. I certainly wasn't up to date on the latest $46,000 gimmick
Pretty sure she’s jumped into advanced Pure Hate training.
Expect Great Things!!!
Please don’t get all weird about Bol in the same way you did about Parker Valby. Some of us like Femke and your comments are off-putting. Besides, some of the comments you make are just really cringey for an old man to be making about a young woman.
It's not a 'gimmick'. It analyzes the content of inspired and expired air to assess where someone is on the aerobic-anaerobic continuum. It doesn't do anything to make a person run better, it is just an analysis tool to help tweak the individual training plan. All you Jack Daniels fans may have seen old photo's of him measuring exactly the same, which much larger devised, while following along in a golf cart holding part of the machine. And you've all heard of 'the highest VO2 measured' stories, well this is exactly the same thing, only portable, not just in a lab.
You almost got it right…
JTD was captured in that picture using what’s known as a Douglas Bag named after Claude Gordon Douglas, British physiologist. A timed run over a specific distance, all oxygen and carbon dioxide are captured, brought back to the testing site. All you see is the collection, no measurements were done immediately.
I did know it was a Douglas bag, I have trained using them many times in Grad School. I didn't think that level of detail was needed on this forum, only for Ex Phys geeks!
JTD was captured in that picture using what’s known as a Douglas Bag named after Claude Gordon Douglas, British physiologist. A timed run over a specific distance, all oxygen and carbon dioxide are captured, brought back to the testing site. All you see is the collection, no measurements were done immediately.
I remember seeing video in the late 70s of NHL players skating with these on in practice. Coaches and team physios and researchers were trying to determine how best to train hockey players for the short, intensive bursts of energy required for a 40-second shift followed by a couple of minutes’ rest. I’m surprised someone who coached college thinks this is some sort of newfangled gadget.
Papendal does athletic testing at the beginning of each new season. For Bol and Saalberg it was this 6 minute run. Data is collected. Later they do the same thing on a stationary bike but for much shorter duration. I think it's called a Wingate test. They all hate that one and end up totally exhausted and sore.
Meuwly is big on numbers so he's always got flying start testing or something going on. The switch to 800 will provide plenty of new tinkering ground, like making sure Bol gets a feel of pacing at each interval.
As a Dolphins fan I remember when Don Shula heard about this 6 minute test. He decided to double it to 12 minutes for football. Every year on the first day of fall camp he had the entire team run as far as they could in 12 minutes. This went on for 25 years. There were minimum distances based on position.
Shula had young assistants running around with stop watches, chasing after specific players and taking notes during the 12 minute run. Loads of paper and assistants comparing notes. Everybody thought it was data collection. But roughly a decade ago one of those young assistants wrote a book. All the so-called data was immediately thrown away. The 12 minute run was merely a scare tactic by Shula to make sure the players stayed in shape during the offseason. Shula was still alive when the book was written. He contacted the author and praised him, saying the book brought back many great memories.
Later they do the same thing on a stationary bike but for much shorter duration. I think it's called a Wingate test. They all hate that one and end up totally exhausted and sore.
The Wingate test is a test of anaerobic power. It involves pedaling at 100% effort against a resistance equal to 7.5% of BW. Your revolutions are recorded in 5-second intervals. Once your phosphagen system runs nearly dry on phosphocreatine and you switch over to nearly 100% glycolysis, you pedal rate will dramatically drop off. A participant might do 20 revolutions in time 0-5 seconds but be down to 5 revolutions by time 25-30 seconds. Data collected will allow you to calculate work, anaerobic power, and the fatigue index, which is the percent drop in power: (Max absolute power - Min absolute power)/Max absolute power x 100%.
The Wingate absolutely sucks. I had to do one about a month or so ago.
It’s genuinely concerning that you don’t know why she’s wearing this mask in training.
You're upset that I wasn't aware of what the latest $46,000 gimmick can do for an 800 runner?
I plead guilty. When I was coaching, I was too busy taking 1:53 Hsers and having them run 1:48 as freshman while making $13k per year. I certainly wasn't up to date on the latest $46,000 gimmick
Can you please explain to me what the hell it does?
No, people are upset because your original post was very annoying, both in its tone and content. Maybe spend 2-3 minutes researching why she's wearing the mask and then provide your opinion on it, instead of starting a silly thread to drum up engagement.
That's not really a test of anaerobic power though is it? You didn't exactly start with a sprint.
They did not do the test exactly the way I did it. I pedaled for a few minutes warming up, and then I was given a 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 countdown, during which I began to pedal all out against zero resistance. On 0, they drop the weight and the test begins. It feels like you are running a 300m race but you run it as if you are running a 100m sprint instead of pacing yourself. When the wall hits, it really hits hard.