Why give away training ideas if they are good?

You're paranoid... and you can't spell.

Agreed. I am spelling challenged and like most human beings have a degree of protective caution.

Unfortunately the device I am using does not have spell check.

Paranoia has degrees. Healthy to some degree, desructive and irrational to extreems.

At this point I imagine Webb isn't discussing his traing with anyone. Titles and money are on the line. Besides, his traing may not even be effective to anyone else anyway.

no two athletes are alike, so training programs are not exactly a guarantee to success. at a general level, everyone is doing the same thing, just variations here and there given individual needs.

There aren't that many "training secrets" (PED's excluded). And there are many cases where the world's best athletes and coaches have shared information on how to get to the top (for a specific athlete).

The fact of the matter is, even if all the training secrets in the world were set before us, there are only a handful of people in the world who are either

A.) capable of completing the training or (most importantly)

B.) willing to do it.

I enjoyed that insight.

There aren't that many "training secrets" (PED's excluded). And there are many cases where the world's best athletes and coaches have shared information on how to get to the top (for a specific athlete).

The fact of the matter is, even if all the training secrets in the world were set before us, there are only a handful of people in the world who are either

A.) capable of completing the training or (most importantly)

B.) willing to do it.

All that you write I understand; however the rudaments are not the details.

It is nice to know what others do; however if one athlete or coach/ athlete have adopted a plan that is slightly " out of the box", I can't see how broadcasting it will benefit the athlete.

Methods keep evolving as we learn more. The intelligence that goes into a plan will hopefully be more effient than methods that were used in the past.

Genetics are one thing, but training appled with insight and novel thinking may bring an athlete further along.

Most of the crap you hear about is as good as old wives tales.

Perhaps the methods from the past and the results had some relationship. The facts are diluted by the context of the moment in those athltets lives.

When you read about needing to do X number of miles per week, or so many minutes of AT, etc., you may also buy into the other marketing scams that reach us.

Vitamins and sport nutritional supplements are making some people very wealthy, but the claims are unfounded.

Just like most of the crap you read from the "wise" advisors, it's hype and will not serve as one may think.

I wouudn't give away my racing sratagy, what value is it to divulge valuable insights discovered through investigation, experience

and insight.

Steven Jobs is not broadcasting his r and d for his competitors to steal.

There aren't that many "training secrets" (PED's excluded). And there are many cases where the world's best athletes and coaches have shared information on how to get to the top (for a specific athlete).

The fact of the matter is, even if all the training secrets in the world were set before us, there are only a handful of people in the world who are either

A.) capable of completing the training or (most importantly)

B.) willing to do it.

All that you write I understand; however the rudaments are not the details.

It is nice to know what others do; however if one athlete or coach/ athlete have adopted a plan that is slightly " out of the box", I can't see how broadcasting it will benefit the athlete.

Methods keep evolving as we learn more. The intelligence that goes into a plan will hopefully be more effient than methods that were used in the past.

Genetics are one thing, but training appled with insight and novel thinking may bring an athlete further along.

Most of the crap you hear about is as good as old wives tales.

Perhaps the methods from the past and the results had some relationship. The facts are diluted by the context of the moment in those athltets lives.

When you read about needing to do X number of miles per week, or so many minutes of AT, etc., you may also buy into the other marketing scams that reach us.

Vitamins and sport nutritional supplements are making some people very wealthy, but the claims are unfounded.

Just like most of the crap you read from the "wise" advisors, it's hype and will not serve as one may think.

I wouudn't give away my racing sratagy, what value is it to divulge valuable insights discovered through investigation, experience

and insight.

Steven Jobs is not broadcasting his r and d for his competitors to steal.

This is a good question.

I think one of the reasons that people in running share their training insights is that so much of the training is equivalent to fitness work. There's no real secrets or tactical advantages. Do as much training as you can so long as you continue to improve. More complicated in practice, but really getting fit (a lot of winning a running race) is not hard.

In other sports a greater proportion of training is practicing tactical moves and plays with the idea being to surprise the opposition.

I have read some elite runners say in interviews that they're not sharing some of their training because their workouts were practicing tactics (e.g; surging at a point in the race), but it is uncommon.

For better or worse, a lot of running is just fitness for which there's no real secrets.

The way I see it, "fittness" is a concept that is taken for granted.

Hard work alone with recovery, nutrition, weights, plyos, rest, etc are tne tools.

Performance gains, aka,"fittness " has a time line.

How many athltets do you know continue to make linear progressions?

Staleness is the curse of training.

So where does fitness end? Some would say we are bound to be limited to a "fittness " limit that genetics tells us we have. Perhaps.

"'Fitness" is relative, like

health.

As with limits our mind tricks us.

Training is not effective if there isn't an intelligent approach to move beyond where others plataue.

The way I see it, "fittness" is a concept that is taken for granted.

Hard work alone with recovery, nutrition, weights, plyos, rest, etc are tne tools.

Performance gains, aka,"fittness " has a time line.

How many athltets do you know continue to make linear progressions?

Staleness is the curse of training.

So where does fitness end? Some would say we are bound to be limited to a "fittness " limit that genetics tells us we have. Perhaps.

"'Fitness" is relative, like

health.

As with limits our mind tricks us.

Training is not effective if there isn't an intelligent approach to move beyond where others plataue.

Why do I share my training withyou? Because I want you to have the best training possible when I beat you.

You know it!