That does seem to be about the dumbest workout I’ve ever seen. If you’re running slow enough to hit that volume of reps, you should have probably just done a continuous run. The problem is, those guys aren’t sub-4 milers or sub-14 5K guys and they were running “threshold” 1600s at 5-flat. And he was basing the workout on if they felt “fatigued”!!!! This type of workout would only work if checking lactate and controlling the pace. They weren’t doing that. I really hope these guys don’t get injured doing this. This is the type of workout a crappy college program would do that gets all their guys injured.
This guy does not understand what lactate threshold is lol.
Yup, stupid. If they get 'fatigued' at threshold pace, they already did too many 1600s. Reducing to 1200s won't help. They already did too much.
They probably should have run another 400 at the end there. This coach can't even follow his own rules.
JBaller33 wrote:
That does seem to be about the dumbest workout I’ve ever seen. If you’re running slow enough to hit that volume of reps, you should have probably just done a continuous run. The problem is, those guys aren’t sub-4 milers or sub-14 5K guys and they were running “threshold” 1600s at 5-flat. And he was basing the workout on if they felt “fatigued”!!!! This type of workout would only work if checking lactate and controlling the pace. They weren’t doing that. I really hope these guys don’t get injured doing this. This is the type of workout a crappy college program would do that gets all their guys injured.
I think the concept is interesting but I do agree that it’s a recipe for injury. The coach talks about having a number of reps as “arbitrary,” however, his method of judging “fatigue” is also “arbitrary.” He should as you suggest be using a lactate meter to get a more accurate evaluation. This is what the Ingebrigstens and other top programs do.
Also this high volume of threshold can be a recipe for injury. What did these guys do like 10-15 miles at threshold in one session? Again the ingebrigtsens would split that volume into two sessions.
This guy is on the right track but he’s missing certain details that certainly aren’t “arbitrary.”
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