I heard of a coach somewhere that had his runners do 100m repeats and hold their breath on the way back. The idea behind this is that when you hold your breath you are depleting the oxygen stores in your blood.
Now, because you are effectively decreasing the pace of your tempo run yet retaining the same benefits, does this have any practicality as a training method to improve LT, or am I completely and utterly off the mark?
I heard a lex and terry commercial where they are talking about some fat sack and one of those two clowns say "close your eyes, even if your driving." Supposively closing your eyes would help you visualize the sack better. I didn't do it because i didn't want to die while driving.
It worked for zatopek.
fUrCeOsNhN wrote:
It worked for zatopek.
Maybe....or maybe it was all the other training he did that did the trick.
I don't know if it helps, but it sure is tough. Some of my athletes and I would challenge eachother on runs at our altitude camp last summer to see who could go the longest while holding our breaths.
I don't think that any of us could have jogged back to the start of a 100m while holding our breaths. Mostly we were able to go around 20 seconds or so, so unless the jog back to the start was done at 5:20 mile pace, I'd say the answer is no.
I seem to remember Bill McChesney doing that in workouts at Oregon???
Yes but he stopped doing it because he found out it was dangerous.