Was reading some sites and it's said that wen he ran 3.59 was only less than 30 mpw. I had honestly never heard that. I ordered his book to read about it but won't have it for about a week. I can't even maintain my fitness without 45 mpw, let alone expect improvement. But I realliy like to read about how other train, so if he anyone has found sites that show it, please post. I googled it and all I found were newspaper articles. Thanks.
Roger Bannister as a medical student at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, chose to use his lunch hour for a 10-minute jog to Paddington track, where he ran 10 X 440yds in about 60 secs with two minutes rest, then he ran back to work. The whole procedure took 48 minutes, leaving him time to eat his lunch. If you want to train for sport you can always fit it in somehow. Time is precious. Our lease of life is 70 years. We know little of the first and last five years. We are at our physical peak in sport for about five years, although we may compete in one way or another for 25 years. This means that every training session is a precious piece of our time. It is an investment which will pay dividends in the future. The more we invest, the better the return.
All great running achievements have followed the pattern of starting small and aiming big. Roger Bannister?s breaking of the 4 minute mile barrier is a prime example. In October 1953, he did 10 x 44O yds in 66 seconds with 44O yds jog recovery in 2-3 minutes, three times a week. His plan was to reduce the times of the laps by 1 second a month. In April 1954, he was able to do all the repetitions in 56 seconds: he had, of course, to attend to his endurance, and for this, he ran 3 x 1½ miles on the track once a week, starting with 75 seconds per 400 metres and got down to 70 seconds per lap.
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With supreme effort and laserlike dedication, Bannister did just that. On May 6, 1954, he became the first man to break the four-minute mile barrier with a time of 3:59.4. It was a milestone so important that Sports Illustrated rated it, along with the climbing of Mount Everest, as the most significant athletic feat of the 20th century.
Realizing that he must be in top shape mentally as well as physically, Bannister psyched himself up from the beginning. He vowed never to allow "passing disappointments at a later stage" from stopping him. In addition, he wouldn't let his training interfere with his studies. "I must be the international athlete who trained least," he said in an interview with the Academy of Achievement.
Bannister compensated by training smart. He trusted his own instincts rather than listen to coaches who ordered him to run or exercise a certain way and wouldn't provide the intellectually curious Bannister with explanations as to why.
"Running thrives in an atmosphere of interplay of ideas about training. I have always learned more from other athletes than from professional coaches," Banniser wrote.
I had a common sense knowledge about what was needed. As a scientist, and I was a physiologist and did some research in it before I went on to my clinical training, trial and error. That's what science is.
To me, running was an experiment. I knew that the training had to fit the event.
How do you manage to release physical and nervous energy over four minutes? Running marathons wasn't going to help. Running seven miles wasn't going to help. So that was really the only part in which my medical training helped me. It was a matter of applying logic to the problem.
in 1956 Roger Bannister wrote:
"Though physiology may indicate respiratory and circulatory limits to muscular effort, psychological and other factors beyond the ken of physiology set the razor's edge of defeat or victory and determine how close an athlete approaches the absolute limits of performance."5 It has taken some time for the role of psychology in athletic performance to be taken seriously. However, it is now possible to put forward hypotheses to account for some effects of stress and anxiety in terms of biochemistry. This leads to consideration of specific nutritional supplements to expand the more usual armoury of the sports psychologist--for example, to suppress stress and to decrease the risk of infection from prolonged stress of training.1 6 Finally, the molecular basis of central fatigue, which originates in the brain, is yielding to physiological biochemistry, with exciting possibilities of delaying such fatigue by nutritional supplements.7 Such work is only in its infancy; as it matures it will make important contributions to performance so that records will still be broken and running speeds will still increase linearly with time."
Great information thanks
he did a lot of hiking