Worst: Follow the 10% rule.
Worst: Follow the 10% rule.
The worst advice would be to run around in a yard that is only 15m wide. I received this advice 4 months ago and it set me back years.
Now I'm always injured. The next worst advice was to buy $100 Asics shoes to replace my Nike Revolutions. There's no difference between running shoes.
rajpatidar893 wrote:
Alternate question - What's the worst advice you were given when you started running? Did you take it? What was the result?
Run 2 track workouts and an all-out mile time trial every week. No running on weekends to recover. Continue running time trials even during track season when races are going on nearly every week.
My two will beat everybody else’s:
1. Was given a bullet by a coach when I was in high school and told to run with it tucked into my sock as a reminder that he would “kill me” if I didn’t run hard.
2. Was told I would be throwing shot in a meet for the first time the next day after never doing it in my life and my throws coach (well, that was his job title anyways) told me to find and big rock and practiceat home. He said when I get tired, that’s when I’m done practicing.
coaches suck wrote:
My two will beat everybody else’s:
1. Was given a bullet by a coach when I was in high school and told to run with it tucked into my sock as a reminder that he would “kill me” if I didn’t run hard.
2. Was told I would be throwing shot in a meet for the first time the next day after never doing it in my life and my throws coach (well, that was his job title anyways) told me to find and big rock and practiceat home. He said when I get tired, that’s when I’m done practicing.
First of all, 'coaches suck' is the best name I've seen. No truer saying.....
So, the worst advice I'd give someone is:
Run for your school team.
Luckily, I wasn't given this advice at the age of 14 and so never got sucked into the high school/college quagmire of terrible coaches and even worse advice. Avoiding such was the best thing I did as a teenage runner.
Long, slow miles make slow runners.
I only began to run injury-free after I ditched this advice (and the watch), and proceeded to profit slowly, but surely by building my base for as long as it took.
Also, passive stretching before running. There is zero evidence it reduces injury, and reasonable evidence it directly lowers rates of force production.
It's okay to miss three drug tests in 11 months as long as the drug tester didn't try to call you to track you down after your third whereabouts violation.
Really trying to pre-emptively strike the competition, eh?
I like your style. First, you have to figure out this future opponent's weaknesses. Are the injury prone? Advise them that strength exercises are BS, or better yet tell them CrossFit is the only way to success. Are they naturally fast without training? Tell them training is for suckers. Racing only. Did they grow up wearing shoes all their lives? Tell them to buy some Vibram Five Fingers and "keep it on the 'crete". No style sense? Tell them boxers are necessary under running shorts.
But seriously, advice? Come on. You have to go out an learn by experience.
How about, "Do some training. You'd be amazed at the results."
Or, teach them how to tie their shoes properly, and what that extra lace-hole is for. I recommend using it. And following it up with a baker's knot.
A good running partner is worth more than all the advice in the world.
Why do I spill these gems?
Couch to Marathon in 18 weeks!
One thing I will never understand is how healthy, able bodied, and able minded people older than 14 (and that’s being generous) can’t tie their shoes to stay tied during a full soccer game or 15 mile run.
I had teammates in college who’s shoes would legitimately come untied during a 5 mile morning run (they weren’t faking it to get a rest).
Wtf is up with that??
agc5k wrote:
Worst advice was that you should never run longer than 60 minutes. I was shocked when I found out that all the best runners break that (terrible) advice.
Works for Brazier. 3:35 1500 is not bad and dude supposedly never ran over an hour with longest run being 8 miles.
worst advice is to hang with losers.
best advice is to follow a winning formula.
ask a winner what to do.
buzzcolorado wrote:
agc5k wrote:
Worst advice was that you should never run longer than 60 minutes. I was shocked when I found out that all the best runners break that (terrible) advice.
Works for Brazier. 3:35 1500 is not bad and dude supposedly never ran over an hour with longest run being 8 miles.
Well, let's just say I'm not as talented as him, and a little more slow twitch. I benefit from slowly increasing my mileage and volume of threshold workouts each season.
You overpronate, get stability shoes
From cycling: recover from october until december after the racing season, doing nothing. And then start again Januari 1st.
If it doesn't hurt, you're not trying hard enough. This would ensure that every young runner would run themselves into the ground on every run and soon burn out or get injured.
Eat lots of fiber. That's how they got the term "fartlek"
Run you workouts based on your "goal pace".
This is a fantastic way to get injured or be so fatigued you never improve.
The right thing is to run appropriate paces for your skill level. You'll slowly improve and eventually be able to train based on "goal pace" because you've reached that level of fitness.
You can't manufacture fitness. If you try, reality will kick you in the nuts.
I'd go for "carbo-load before a race" and "30 minutes stretching before any workout"
By far my biggest myth pet peeve: If you're sore, you need to massage/stretch the area.
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