Newest Floberg video starts with reversed footage of him running meant to represent going back to Boston, but it unintentionally encapsulates what this series is really about: his fitness going backwards.
The “winter of speed” hasn’t raised his ceiling. It’s just gotten him used to running above LT2 so he’s even better at overcooking his workouts. He does NOT need to “pull from above”. He still needs to “push from below” because even though he’s done a ton of “push from below” workouts, he chronically overcooks them! He’s only exacerbated this issue.
He races at the end of long runs. He takes extra rest between reps so that he can run paces that are too fast.
After the workout is done, he takes pride that the stimulus is in and assumes improved fitness should follow. First, it’s the wrong stimulus. Lactate too high. Second, his body is clearly in “survival mode” not “adaptation mode”. It’s prioritizing surviving the next workout and has no spare energy to make adaptations. That’s how he’s trained it to respond.
Look at the 8k. He did a workout that same night! Dude, Floberg, you have to coax your body into these kinds of things for them to be beneficial.
He lists excuses. Great! Actually a good thing to have your excuses in order as long as you actually use them to slow down the pacing from the start. Instead it’s the same thing every time with him: go too fast at the start and excuses are there to explain why the end didn’t go well.
The whole overtrain + ”im a busy dad” + toxic positivity schtick is disgusting. It works when you have newb gains to make. And then you plateau far short of your potential. Not because of your busy life but because you don’t know what you’re doing.
Proper training isn’t having the discipline to complete workouts on pace no matter how difficult the conditions or counterproductive your lifestyle. Proper training is adjusting workouts for the conditions and lifestyle to create a stimulus you can actually benefit from.
If he had any wisdom and any bravery, he’d train easier. Honestly a perfect candidate for NSM.
”I’m a realist about my fitness.” Hahahahaha
Boston is going to destroy him. He will try to run 2:32:30 or so and fade hard. He’ll fail to go sub 2:35 which will mean he will fail to achieve his goal from 2 years ago. This has been the dumbest training to prepare for Boston. The only thing he’s “improved”, if anything, is his VLaMax, which is bad for the marathon and especially bad for a hilly marathon. Newton will take the last of this man’s glycogen and the finish will not be pretty.