We often hear about creating a "base" before competition begins in a season. What exactly does this mean? What things are standard during the base phase, what things ought to be standard? What should be avoided? What are the things people tend to do in base training that they should not do?
A base is simply building up as much training as poss for your given event given your recent training/racing, for a novice this may mean 10 wks of about 50k for 10k race for an elite 1ok runner maybe 4yrs of 100k/wk with a lot of elite racing, basically a base depends on experience, goals, commitment etc
I used to run a bit but never consistently, then about 18mnths ago I decided to record my running/training and although still only from a novice perspective I continually train 50k a week and build towards personal events and I find this helps me a lot to achieve goals, improve and move forward
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No speedwork, just building mileage.
It doesn't matter. All your base are belong to us.
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Putting in the miles that will be the foundation for your season. Base building is a time to develope the aerobic system without concern for any kind of true speed work or racing. Speed can be developed relatively quickly during the season, but aerobic conditioning takes time to develop and can always be improved. As for what should be done during base building, I like to run mostly easy distance runs (60-70 min) with one long run per week (90-100 min). I'll also throw in a few shorter faster runs and an occasional hill workout to build strength. Basically anything that will improve aerobic conditioning and build strength.
Well.... said it wellBase is shorthand for Basic Condition. When one builds a foundation of fitness of body and mind with no reguard to specialization.Just as core work implies the strengthing of the bodies core(basic)systems of bio-mechanics.... muscle tendon nerve interaction---often using weights, resistance training, stretching contracting activity
Well... wrote:
Putting in the miles that will be the foundation for your season. Base building is a time to develope the aerobic system without concern for any kind of true speed work or racing. Speed can be developed relatively quickly during the season, but aerobic conditioning takes time to develop and can always be improved. As for what should be done during base building, I like to run mostly easy distance runs (60-70 min) with one long run per week (90-100 min). I'll also throw in a few shorter faster runs and an occasional hill workout to build strength. Basically anything that will improve aerobic conditioning and build strength.
Asterix wrote:
It doesn't matter. All your base are belong to us.
http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/video1_view.shtml
Sweet. I was just thinking about this the other day. Now I don't have to google for it.
Damn, you beat me to it!
Asterix wrote:
It doesn't matter. All your base are belong to us.
http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/video1_view.shtml