You'll be very aerobically fit, but not very sharp. There's absolutely no reason you can't do it, but you won't race up to your potential. It's a great idea for maintaining fitness if you're not in a racing block though. Something like "never being more than a month away from a PR race." You don't need that long to get sharp and race-ready if you have the aerobic base.
You'll be very aerobically fit, but not very sharp. There's absolutely no reason you can't do it, but you won't race up to your potential. It's a great idea for maintaining fitness if you're not in a racing block though. Something like "never being more than a month away from a PR race." You don't need that long to get sharp and race-ready if you have the aerobic base.
Kind of what I always think as well. I have an athlete that believes they only thrive off low impact and high volume work. This is more or less what I told them but I was curious to hear what others would say about the topic.
You'll be very aerobically fit, but not very sharp. There's absolutely no reason you can't do it, but you won't race up to your potential. It's a great idea for maintaining fitness if you're not in a racing block though. Something like "never being more than a month away from a PR race." You don't need that long to get sharp and race-ready if you have the aerobic base.
Agree with this. Nothing to stop you from doing this sort of training, but if those two thresholds are your only weekly workouts, you won't get the most bang for your buck because good training touches on a wide variety of paces and stimuli.
It could be good in the early season though: 1 day of a continuous tempo, 1 day of threshold intervals, and then a race, or a VO2max interval session with some faster 200's tacked on at the end.
I'm not asking for me. I'm just asking about the concept really. I'd say long would be 30-45 minutes of that type of effort.
OK, I got it.
Let me share my thoughts bellow.
Doing LT traing for 30-45 minutes twice a day is acceptable,but you must be careful. This could lead to a high level of fatigue in your body, and can cause injury or overtraining..
If you choose to do LT training for 30 minutes twice a day, it would be more specific to a HM race. You might require around 4 days of recovery time.
On the other hand, if you opt for LT training for 45 minutes twice a day, it would be more specific to a FM race. This might necessitate about 7 days of recovery time.
Thus, if you opt for LT training twice a day, your weekly mileage will inevitably decrease. This is because you'll need more time for recovery.
There's no reason you can't, but it's not optimal training.
You're ignoring other energy systems, and if you're pushing the length of a threshold run out to 45 minutes - that's getting mighty close to a race effort (I'm assuming you're referring to anaerobic threshold - or LT2).
It might work during a non-competition phase of training, but I'd recommend either shortening the threshold to 30 minutes - if you choose to run at LT2 - or slow the pace to LT1 (aerobic threshold), if you want to run for longer.
I'm not asking for me. I'm just asking about the concept really. I'd say long would be 30-45 minutes of that type of effort.
OK, I got it.
Let me share my thoughts bellow.
Doing LT traing for 30-45 minutes twice a day is acceptable,but you must be careful. This could lead to a high level of fatigue in your body, and can cause injury or overtraining..
If you choose to do LT training for 30 minutes twice a day, it would be more specific to a HM race. You might require around 4 days of recovery time.
On the other hand, if you opt for LT training for 45 minutes twice a day, it would be more specific to a FM race. This might necessitate about 7 days of recovery time.
Thus, if you opt for LT training twice a day, your weekly mileage will inevitably decrease. This is because you'll need more time for recovery.
Doing LT traing for 30-45 minutes twice a day is acceptable,but you must be careful. This could lead to a high level of fatigue in your body, and can cause injury or overtraining..
If you choose to do LT training for 30 minutes twice a day, it would be more specific to a HM race. You might require around 4 days of recovery time.
On the other hand, if you opt for LT training for 45 minutes twice a day, it would be more specific to a FM race. This might necessitate about 7 days of recovery time.
Thus, if you opt for LT training twice a day, your weekly mileage will inevitably decrease. This is because you'll need more time for recovery.
Tell me he's not an AI after reading this crap.
Tell me, why do you think that is "crap"?
Where are the problems?
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Yes, you can. Kristoffer Ingebrigtsen (commonly known as hobby jogger ingebrigtsen) does exactly this. You can see his strava. I personally have been doing this for about 3 months now and I can say it has made a pretty large difference in my fitness. Obviously near races you must add in some race pace work but I find that even just with just 2 sessions a week you can still get very far. It is important to extend the length of the sessions. For example, while a common workout for double thresholders AM session is 6x5min, you should extend to something like 8x5min since you are only doing one session a day, but this also depends on your fitness level.