P*** O** wrote:
You are becoming tiresome, filling up these threads with childish comments.
Most kids are taught, "if you don't have anything good or worthwhile to say, STFU"
Why don't you go fvck yourself?
You had nothing good or worthwhile to say so STFU.
Thank you.
Over my head? wrote:
HRE wrote:
You really are not going to understand Lydiard if you're trying to force ideas like alactic pick ups, lactic acid building, etc. onto it. The idea didn't exist when he developed his ideas. If you're going to use his classic approach with all the phases the simplest way is to have;
1. A 10-12 week phase where you run a lot of miles, whatever that means for you, as fast as you can without getting out of breath, which conversely can be described as running slowly enough that you don't get out of breath. If you're going to err do it on the "too slow" side. Realistically don't worry about pace. Be comfortable and get in the miles.
2. Four to six weeks of doing 2-3 sessions of hill repeats. You want it simple so I'm not going to get into the variations of doing that you might find. Just find a "heeeeel," to quote Henry Rono, "any heeeel" and spend 30-45 minutes running up and down it. You can refine this a lot but you want simple.
3. Four to six weeks of interval work, three sessions a week if you can manage them, two, if not. Just do normal sessions, 200s, 400s, 800s, miles, etc. "Long reps, short recoveries, short reps long recoveries" (Bill Baillie)
4. Four weeks of sprints, 50/60s (sprint all out for 50 metres, "float" for 60 for as long as you can. This is a killer. Sprint straights and jog curves. And you'd do time trials or preliminary races perhaps "bracketing" your chosen distances, racing above and below it.
5. Races. Easy recovery runs between, your long run, though perhaps not the longest version of it.
That is 22-28 weeks of training. When does anyone have that many weeks between the seasons?
And down the rabbit hole you go.....
There are 52 weeks in a year, two seasons of 26 weeks. Ignore indoor or use the "races" as part of the training if you can run them at 7/8th effort.
Lydiard would argue that Americans race too much and don't train enough. The original "base" is "as long as possible".
He made some other suggestions for the American collegiate system in one of the links I posted, a more compact schedule.
Alan
I don't know how someone can look at a body of work assembled over a decade or more and think a simple explanation is going to do great things for them. People often insist on reducing Arthur's ideas to the schedules in "Run to the Top' or the updated ones from later books. But Arthur never wanted to include them and preferred that you understand the ideas behind the schedules which he always said were just samples, and of course they were samples written for people who had two racing seasons a year. He came up with schedules for people who raced more or less year round but those seem to get only a little attention.
He did see racing as a useful form of anaerobic work and told me it was possible to "race yourself fit" and not do much of his schedules beyond the base phase. If you've got only a little time between your seasons you'd do well to use this approach. You'd use the time between seasons to rest a bit and then do mostly base work figuring your early season races will get you ready for the later and presumably more important later ones. But to use this approach you need more than a simplistic familiarity with the system.
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