Or have the human creativity explored almost every avenues for athletic performance? I am talking significant revloutionary methods like the invention of interval training and the incorporation of weight training for distance runners.. Will someone unlock a secret method to sprint the Marathon?
I highly doubt there is anything revolutionary coming training-wise. Perhaps refinements to current understanding but training for distance running at its core is pretty simple. Now, there may be revolutions in things like genetic manipulation, epigenetics, drugs/dope, shoes, and surfaces.
Running fewer running workouts, but running them harder. Then 'cross' training the remainder of the time.
This is actually a really good guess. If there’s going to be another leap, it seems like this is the best candidate. Especially with cross training machines more closely approximating running hit with far less impact.
Running fewer running workouts, but running them harder. Then 'cross' training the remainder of the time.
In terms of current training compenstation to save time i think that'll be the path..But the question is, will that make them run much faster?(Revolutionary fast) ..
Running fewer running workouts, but running them harder. Then 'cross' training the remainder of the time.
This is actually a really good guess. If there’s going to be another leap, it seems like this is the best candidate. Especially with cross training machines more closely approximating running hit with far less impact.
There are these guys called "triathletes" who trains this way.
there won't be any major revolution in training that hasn't already happened yet, it's just going to be iterative improvements on what we already know
revolutionary changes are going to come from medicine (including illicitly) and technology. i really think we've just seen the beginning of what we can do to human performance.
at the risk of starting a flamewar, the biggest revolution in performance we will ever see has already started, in women's running -- with runners who went through puberty and developed as a male, and then are able to compete against women who did not.
Just got off the phone with my team of scientists.
- Small, modular adhesive coolant cells the size of a coin battery that store large amounts of energy and are able to keep body from overheating during 5k-ish efforts (called the Bluedot, hence my name) - Extremely expensive, custom-fitted, carbon fiber alternative to KT Tape that eliminates stress fracture risk below the knee - Advancements in vascular science in which vein stripping and sectioning procedures are performed to improve blood flow below the waist. Likewise, plaque can be surgically removed more easily. How much would your Vo2 increase if all of the plaque was cleaned from your arteries??? - A new generation of spikes in which a "dynamo" inside each individual pyramid spike produces energy well in excess of the extra weight.
I can see the Norwegian style double threshold becoming more common at the top level, with runners at lower levels adapting more of the threshold intervals for lactate threshold training (2ks, 1ks and 400s with short rest) instead of the current model of tempo runs being continuous runs with no rest. Another innovation that could become more popular with the Norwegian style of training is only doing race pace work very close to competition, with threshold work being done year round.
The posters above mentioned cross training, and that seems like a good bet. Anyone could hop on a rowing machine for an extra 2 hours of easy aerobic work every week with no strain to the lower body.
Although neither of these would be innovations, just popularization of already known ideas. Realistically, the next big breakthrough will be some substance that will either boost aerobic capacity or reduce recovery time substantially. Maybe this already happened and thats why people have been running faster the last few years. Who knows?