What questions would you like Renato Canova to answer?

It would be interesting to hear his take on nutrition/diet, especially in his marathon athletes.

There is a lot of talk in the endurance community regarding the high fat, low carb approach. I can't imagine his east African athletes follow such a practice, however Renato has promoted "special block" double work out sessions where the athletes only consumes vegetables between runs. Clearly trying to stress the fat burning engine.

Tradition and culture norms aside, how would he fuel his athletes in a perfect world?

ScottEvil wrote:

Imagine you were training non-professional runners who did 50-60 miles a week and were aiming for 10-half marathon; let's say they need to keep the volume there either because they're busy with a job or because they get injured when they do more.

What kinds of workouts would you recommend? How would you divide the mileage at that range between different pace ranges?

Thanks,

+1

I'm interested in his thoughts on training for people relatively new to the sport/ hobby jogger (50-60 miles per week)

Side note: would someone post a link to the thread he describes his 'aerobic house' training philosophy ? Thanks

Bubbadeeboos wrote:

ScottEvil wrote:

Imagine you were training non-professional runners who did 50-60 miles a week and were aiming for 10-half marathon; let's say they need to keep the volume there either because they're busy with a job or because they get injured when they do more.

What kinds of workouts would you recommend? How would you divide the mileage at that range between different pace ranges?

Thanks,

+1

I'm interested in his thoughts on training for people relatively new to the sport/ hobby jogger (50-60 miles per week)

Side note: would someone post a link to the thread he describes his 'aerobic house' training philosophy ? Thanks

You start with a good foundation and put EPO shingles on the roof.

rthrth:

From page 38 of the "giant thread", the last paragraph has the Longo workout:

Regarding the "intermittent training", this is a type of training derived from Interval-training, that in any case can be interpretated in many different ways.

The first using this type of training in systematic way was Gilles Cometti, a French coach specialized in the preparation of soccer players. They used to increase the specific speed endurance for a player, thru a big number of repetitions on very short distance (for example, 10 x 20-30m at max speed, controlling time with photocells, running ahead and coming back with a very little interval, about 10 seconds). But, for example, the type of training that I saw many years ago used by American 400m runners (may be one full lap with 10 steps in max acceleration followed by 10 steps without pushing, called, if I remember, "killer" with another word), is a type of intermittent training too.

This type of training is very much used by swimmers. They swim fast for 50m (in a long pool), then use only the time for turning (may be 5-10 sec.), and go again, for many times.

My friend Bonifazi, a physiologist that is also a researcher with Italian swimmers, told me that, using this training, you can keep the level of cortisol very low, having the same result of continue activity (without rest) under the point of view of the "shuttle" of lactate.

The classic type of intermittent that we use, for example, with some specialist of 800m (like Italian Andrea Longo) is 4 sets of 10x150m in 21.0 recovery 30.0, with 5/6 min among sets. The speed (about 14.0 every 100m) is about 92/93 % of the speed of the race (1:44.0 is 13.0 every 100m, so 1 sec is 7% of the time), and this fact is very good under biomechanical point of view. If you take blood at the end of every set, for checking the lactate level, you can see a very low level (may be about 7-9 mmol), SO THIS TRAINING HAS AN AEROBIC EFFECT. With Longo, for example, if we go for 6 km at 3:20 (with very low relation under biomechanical point of view : 20.0 is a speed of 18 km/h, 13.0 of 27.7, so the percentage is 65%), at the end we find a higher level of lactate (may be 12-13 mmol).

Read more:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=458338&page=37#ixzz4RenJmXFU

His thoughts on modern running shoes (compared to 20-30 years ago?), minimalism & barefoot running.

Can a non-African born athlete ever run a world record (of any distance) at the level the bar has been risen to now?

What is a hobby jogger?

Is the US Government covering up the Roswell incident?

This is stupid. Canova regularly posts here, why should we have someone else ask questions for us? Just point him to this thread so we can ask him ourselves.

I intend to ask who he erroneously thinks has run a clean sub 13. I know he'll say Shaheen.

in japan wrote:

Can a non-African born athlete ever run a world record (of any distance) at the level the bar has been risen to now?

Obviously, because there some world records held by non-African born ones.

1. Can he provide an example of the what he tells an athlete how to get back into shape the first couple of weeks, post-injury?

2. Does he have any experience with older runners and how does he handle their workload/mileage? I am talking 35-45 years old.

Also

1) Can you be successful on 1-run day/singles?

Oh, and ask him if he gives his athletes beef liver, and if he's not, laugh because everyone knows to eat beef liver.