I’m an 800m runner and am wondering about the intensities of my sessions. I find myself constantly training until I am on the verge of/ throwing up during sessions. I’m wondering if pushing myself to exhaustion like this is helping me or holding me back from progressing further. The main thing I’m unsure of is how little is too little effort in a session or how much is pushing too much.
IronBarrell66 wrote:
I’m an 800m runner and am wondering about the intensities of my sessions. I find myself constantly training until I am on the verge of/ throwing up during sessions. I’m wondering if pushing myself to exhaustion like this is helping me or holding me back from progressing further. The main thing I’m unsure of is how little is too little effort in a session or how much is pushing too much.
As an 800 guy, you should have 3 phases of the year:
1) base phase: you should never feel you're working so hard you need to throw up UNLESS you have extremely long recovery and your stomach just isn't sitting right. Should be mostly easy, threshold, and sprints.
2) Pre-Comp Phase: you should be working hard enough you want to throw up once or every other week at minimum. Time to get ready to race.
3) Racing Phase: you should feel like throwing up weekly, maybe twice a week when peaking, this includes races though.
If you're feeling this everyday, or most days, you're going too hard most likely.