Never even heard of double thresholds until Kincaid spoke of them after his indoor 5000m record run at BU. Now it seems everyone is adding them to their training program. Is this the magic workout everyone has been looking for?
Never even heard of double thresholds until Kincaid spoke of them after his indoor 5000m record run at BU. Now it seems everyone is adding them to their training program. Is this the magic workout everyone has been looking for?
Pretty sure it was really obscure until Kincaid brought the idea to NAU but apparently Mike Smith has the whole team doing them now
rgp65 wrote:
Is this the magic workout everyone has been looking for?
Yeah dude, everyone is doing it. Everyone has been doing it. Don't be a square.
Mike smith has had the whole team doing them for a while. Long before Kincaid showed up at Nau.
After last spring I cranked up the volume big time and introduced some double threshold sessions during the late Fall and Winter. Felt a massive difference really quickly and ended up smashing my 10k and 5k bests in a single workout (I never raced well in track so my PRs were nothing special). Best double thresh days I had were 7x5'/1' in the morning and 25x400 in the afternoon, and a different day I had 10x1k in the morning and a continuous 5 mile threshold run in the evening.
rgp65 wrote:
Never even heard of double thresholds until Kincaid spoke of them after his indoor 5000m record run at BU.
Have you been asleep for the last six years? Jakob/lots of the Norwegians have been doing them for a while now.
The success of Jakob has started the fad. Although East Africans aren’t doing double thresholds and they seem to be running fast. It’s more about an emphasis on higher volume and threshold training. Those are the keys to good training. You can still do that without doubling thresholds.
bugattiaron wrote:
After last spring I cranked up the volume big time and introduced some double threshold sessions during the late Fall and Winter. Felt a massive difference really quickly and ended up smashing my 10k and 5k bests in a single workout (I never raced well in track so my PRs were nothing special). Best double thresh days I had were 7x5'/1' in the morning and 25x400 in the afternoon, and a different day I had 10x1k in the morning and a continuous 5 mile threshold run in the evening.
What times did you run off this?
For Real wrote:
Although East Africans aren’t doing double thresholds and they seem to be running fast.
They also seem to have a lot of busts.
For Real wrote:
The success of Jakob has started the fad. Although East Africans aren’t doing double thresholds and they seem to be running fast. It’s more about an emphasis on higher volume and threshold training. Those are the keys to good training. You can still do that without doubling thresholds.
I agree what you say here. One can succeed with both . The main thing is to emphasize on threshold training when it seem to be the most important factor to improve. Ingebrigtsens don't run double thresholds every week. And runners like Kipchoge, Kamworor etc never runs double thresholds and are still in the world top.🧙♂️🇸🇪
And if we compare a week when Ingebrigtsens do two double threshold intervals in a week with a week another runner does two single threshold intervals plus a long run with threshold interval in it, we found out the two examples gives quite the same total volume of threshold training.🧙♂️🇸🇪