Intervals can be high intensity sure if you're doing v02 max or faster work, but often you would use intervals to lower the intensity.
For example you could go and do a 30 minute tempo, but you could also break it up into 10 x 3 minutes or 12 x 3 and get the exact same volume load with a much lower effort. With the lower intensity, you could quite easily double up here and it would be a double threshold, say 5 x 6 minutes in the morning then 10 x 3 minutes in the afternoon. It would be very hard to reach this sort of effect with sustained tempo or threshold efforts, and you would probably go too hard and burn out.
So I can say : Do “on” speed pace until heart rate climbs to threshold zone momentarily and then recover and let it drop , rest / walk / jog around zone 1? I Don’t have a lactate meter . That is basically the premise?
You can use intervals to run at a certain intensity for a length of time that you couldn't/wouldn't normally do, but not all high intensity training has to be interval work. Continuous hard runs (and races/time trials) have a place in training, as do less structured workouts like fartleks. Or things like sprints/strides where the recovery isn't designed to make the workout difficult.
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Interval training is just a means of applying training load. Technically the interval refers to the amount of recovery between the repetitions during the workout but over the years the meaning has evolved to be more popularly understood as inclusive of the rep/interval scheme. So no, intervals do NOT equal high intensity
Interval training does not mean that the reps have to be hard. Before Authur Lydiard, the dominant style of programming was interval training. Igloi's and Verhuel's programming was interval based. You still see this with the programming for swimmers today. A lot of 400/800 runners train this way. For example the 800m runners at Texas A&M use Tempo and Lactate Threshold workouts to develop their aerobic system instead of slow continuous runs.
Intervals allow you to do more volume at a higher intensity and control lactate accumulation which is why the Nowegain Method uses them instead of continuous runs. I often use them for new runners to build-up their strength before I assign continuos runs.
No. Interval training can be at any intensity that you set. For example Jeff Galloway, in his books, describes his run / walk method as basically interval training…and most on here would not perceive that approach as being intense…
This question has a long history in training science. E.g. people tried to run/walk, also for low intensity sessions.
Today it is considered that for lower intensities a continuous session is better, and for high intensities reps/intervals are better. So i would answer your question with yes, in training.
This question has a long history in training science. E.g. people tried to run/walk, also for low intensity sessions.
Today it is considered that for lower intensities a continuous session is better, and for high intensities reps/intervals are better. So i would answer your question with yes, in training.
Not being contentious here…but where does it say that? I’ve not seen it. Do you have any links / research to support that?
And also…in terms of running…wouldn’t a run / walk approach, (where the running is actually a “run” as opposed to a shuffle, as you would see in the slow training of many) be a better option?
Not being contentious here…but where does it say that? I’ve not seen it. Do you have any links / research to support that?
And also…in terms of running…wouldn’t a run / walk approach, (where the running is actually a “run” as opposed to a shuffle, as you would see in the slow training of many) be a better option?
Maybe i should have better written training history instead of training science.
However, his topic is large and showing a single paper isolated will not do the job properly.
So i will give you a though experiment. Imagine you have 60min time for an easy training session, and you do either a) a continuous easy run for 1h or b) run/walk for 1h. Training form a) elicts a higher training load as session b). So a) is a more time efficient training form as b), as any rest interval after any easy rep, would make it less time efficient. (considering walking has no training effect for the athlete, and you were talking about slow running).
That does not mean a run/walk is bad or forbidden and is of no value.
Not being contentious here…but where does it say that? I’ve not seen it. Do you have any links / research to support that?
And also…in terms of running…wouldn’t a run / walk approach, (where the running is actually a “run” as opposed to a shuffle, as you would see in the slow training of many) be a better option?
Maybe i should have better written training history instead of training science.
However, his topic is large and showing a single paper isolated will not do the job properly.
So i will give you a though experiment. Imagine you have 60min time for an easy training session, and you do either a) a continuous easy run for 1h or b) run/walk for 1h. Training form a) elicts a higher training load as session b). So a) is a more time efficient training form as b), as any rest interval after any easy rep, would make it less time efficient. (considering walking has no training effect for the athlete, and you were talking about slow running).
That does not mean a run/walk is bad or forbidden and is of no value.
I still stand by what I said…
For MANY runners,( obviously not the running gods that inhabit letsrun) keeping their efforts to a low intensity would require them to go at a slow shuffle / jog ( that might interfere with running mechanics) or utilise a run / walk approach. It would be down to the individual as to which one they prefer…
High intensity can mean something different to different people. A 4/8 or shorter distance person might find a bunch of long runs or threshold runs too "intense", but could handle a lot more intervals than longer distance runners. A 10ker might very well find that interval workouts equal intensity, particularly if running them on the faster end with others that can handle them better.