Easy Interval Method

I had never heard of it until I was recently given the book by a friend. It was an interesting read. I do fartlek strides at the end of my runs (or the middle if my legs are particularly trashed) due to his ideas about muscle reactivity

Everything old is new again.

lexel wrote:

Does anyone train with that methode? Experiences? Good/bad?

Book: Easy Interval Method by Klaas Lok, 2019

I'm coached by the new super coach JS.His dancan system looks to be something in between

the easy interval method and the high mileage methods.

What is the easy interval method?

Also called Verhuel Method and there are several LRC threads on it.

JS, there is no need to speak in the third person.

Using the copperrunner training strategy, we have found great results using the philosophy “it doesn’t matter the length of the intervals, but more so the volume and pace of said intervals” if you do 100x50m at 5K pace, it’ll be very easy, but your body will react to the training stimulus as if you just ran the whole thing flat out.

I coach Craig Engels.

Email me, and let me turn you into the next superstar of the track and field world! ))

~-~The Running Messiah~-~

CopperRunner wrote:

JS, there is no need to speak in the third person.

Using the copperrunner training strategy, we have found great results using the philosophy “it doesn’t matter the length of the intervals, but more so the volume and pace of said intervals” if you do 100x50m at 5K pace, it’ll be very easy, but your body will react to the training stimulus as if you just ran the whole thing flat out.

I coach Craig Engels.

Email me, and let me turn you into the next superstar of the track and field world! ))

~-~The Running Messiah~-~

Sensd Engels to me and he will have a magical transformation!!! I AM THE FUTURE COACH SUPERSTAR!!!!

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:

Sensd Engels to me and he will have a magical transformation!!! I AM THE FUTURE COACH SUPERSTAR!!!!

This mental disorder is called narcissism.

lexel wrote:

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:

Sensd Engels to me and he will have a magical transformation!!! I AM THE FUTURE COACH SUPERSTAR!!!!

This mental disorder is called narcissism.

Lol yeah!

ImpaIa31 wrote:

lexel wrote:

This mental disorder is called narcissism.

Lol yeah!

+1

I have used the method for over a year now. I really like it. I'm a master's runner juggling work/life with my running hobby... but my 5k PR went down from 17:08 to 16:44 last fall after switching to the method (37 years old). Just a few thoughts:

1. I have a PhD in exercise physiology, so I can appreciate the idea of manipulating frequency of workouts to spread the training stimulus to more of a daily one, as opposed to every other day or every third day. Since the volume is more controlled I haven't had any injury issues

2. I tend to run by feel. I don't often run at his prescribed paced... but tend to run by feel. I end up running 200s near mile-2mile pace, 400s near 2mile-5k pace, 1000s near 5k-marathon pace (large spread, I know) but it just depends how I'm feeling!

3. I liked most of the read, except for the 'reactivity' jargon. I get what he's trying to say about having the legs feel better/fresher and being able to switch gears... but it just feels like he's selling a pyramid scheme product or something like essential oils haha! I just kind of ignore that part.... great read... I recommend giving it a try.

Set al my PR's with this method.

Just be careful when you are injury prone.

This is Jim Kiler wrote:

Everything old is new again.

This sounds like something that dates clear back to Woldemar Gerschler.

matthew23 wrote:

Set al my PR's with this method.

Just be careful when you are injury prone.

Thank you for this hint. Luckily i am not injury prone.

Thanks for your feedback.

I have read now around 50% of the book, and strange is that instead of a 30-40 min tempo run i should do now 4-6 x 1000m intervals also at tempo pace. But this is much easier ...

I've been training this way most of the spring. There's a Facebook group and Klaas answers questions.

If you are older and working out alone, it works really well. Doing tempo pace 6x1000s with a jog between is a lot easier than doing a 6k tempo, and you can do it more often, and your fitness just builds daily. And it's a good gentle way to introduce summer speed without injury risk, compared to stepping on the track in spring.

You do need real self discipline to keep each day easy enough that you can do something similar the next day.

Jack Daniels Calculator wrote:

This is Jim Kiler wrote:

Everything old is new again.

This sounds like something that dates clear back to Woldemar Gerschler.

Before Jim Ryun's 40x400 sessions in high school over 50 years ago, Zatopek was doing similar type sessions almost 20 years before that. Igloi (and Bob Schul) were doing 'aerobic intervals' in the time-period between Zatopek and Ryun. Gerschler preceded them all.

Klaas Lok the autor of the book 'Easy interval method' writes on page 34:

'Research has shown that intensity just under the lactate threshold produces the highest value of lactate clearance, up to 30% more than at or above the threshold'

However, unfortunately he does not provides any literature link.

I guess this statement is not true.

lexel wrote:

Klaas Lok the autor of the book 'Easy interval method' writes on page 34:

'Research has shown that intensity just under the lactate threshold produces the highest value of lactate clearance, up to 30% more than at or above the threshold'

However, unfortunately he does not provides any literature link.

I guess this statement is not true.

There's so misleading information in the book.

There's a section where researchers compared between interval work with steady runs.

Klaas tweaked the results to show his method works.