He said: “Before the season I was doing a phenomenal amount of training. It was two hours running in the morning, circuit training, do 2km swimming, do some engineering for a few hours then back down the gym for two hours and then a four-hour bike ride. F1 is so physical.”
That is mad, 2 hours running a day will probably add up to 100mpw + all the other training he's doing. I wonder what he'd run a mile in.
I can believe it - he was a karate black belt at 12.
Sprinters "run" for two hours a day but end up doing much less than 100 miles.
us runner07 wrote:
He said: “Before the season I was doing a phenomenal amount of training. It was two hours running in the morning, circuit training, do 2km swimming, do some engineering for a few hours then back down the gym for two hours and then a four-hour bike ride. F1 is so physical.”
That is mad, 2 hours running a day will probably add up to 100mpw + all the other training he's doing. I wonder what he'd run a mile in.
wow, sub5 at least.
Any driver in an F1 car is getting paid infinitely more than a similarly-ranked IAAF athlete. Money matters.
So he worked out for like 10 hours/day?
Running is a hard sport. But training time demands aren't as high as in some other sports. You train two to three hours at max. For cyclists it's not uncommon to spend multiple days back to back with six hours in the saddle. Ironman Thomas Hellriegel sais his highest weekly training hours ever was 56. Gymnasts also spend a crazy amonut of time training.
But I still don't believe the above mentioned regimen of Hamilton.
I am calling BS on this. Lewis Hamilton trys to run 14 hours a week, he would be injured very soon afterwards. And that is without all the other stuff. I doubt if the very top triathletes even do that volume of work.
us runner07 wrote:
He said: “Before the season I was doing a phenomenal amount of training. It was two hours running in the morning, circuit training, do 2km swimming, do some engineering for a few hours then back down the gym for two hours and then a four-hour bike ride. F1 is so physical.”
That is mad, 2 hours running a day will probably add up to 100mpw + all the other training he's doing. I wonder what he'd run a mile in.
Only a naive fool would believe hype of F1 that tries to perpetuate the myth that driving a car is a physically demanding "sport". F 1 should be banned from the face of the earth in any case because it causes too much polution, noise, and danger.
Keep the circuits however and use them for running races.
I call BS on this as well. That volume of training would be way, WAY past the point of diminishing returns for even the most elite endurance athletes. (And by "athletes" I mean just that, not race car drivers.)
The Obvious Answer wrote:
I am calling BS on this. Lewis Hamilton trys to run 14 hours a week, he would be injured very soon afterwards. And that is without all the other stuff. I doubt if the very top triathletes even do that volume of work.
Not very good at reading comprehension are you?
Running is PART of his two hour workout routine...
He's far from the best runner in F1 recently. His former teammate Jenson Button used to do triathlons, during the F1 season between race weekends.
A lot of F1 drivers prefer biking to running, but most have measured VO2 maxes in the 60-70ml/kg/min range.
Sorry if this disrupts your world view about your own personal uniqueness, but there are other types of fitness besides being skinny fat.