Did runners like Bannister and Zatopek, who choose interval training, ever do base training?
Did runners like Bannister and Zatopek, who choose interval training, ever do base training?
BusainBolt wrote:
Did runners like Bannister and Zatopek, who choose
"chose"
interval training, ever do base training?
Whoops! wrote:
BusainBolt wrote:Did runners like Bannister and Zatopek, who choose
"chose"
interval training, ever do base training?
Wrong, Mr. Whoops! Their zombies still choose interval training.
Interval training was present throughout most of the training year it definitely did not make up the bulk of training in either Seiler’s study or Salazar’s program, or even Zatopek’s for that matter. In fact, across the year, interval training only comprised 15-20% of total training. That said, it was present and emphasized throughout the athletes’ development – for most of the year, every year.
1. Use short intervals (ONLY) during the base period.
2. Utilize active recovery between intervals at 50% of vVO2
3. Only perform as many repetitions as you can while holding appropriate quality.
Roger Bannister only did intervals, he was to busy trying to be a Doctor.
F*** interval training
Most of Zatopeks "intervals" were fairly "aerobic" for much of the training year. They were not super intense. He would do things like 50x400m with 100m jog. He said he did them easy enough so that he would be able to do them again the next day. I'd say that provided a good "aerobic base". Note that zatopek was a 5k, 10k runner and even ran the oly marathon.
I don't know enough about Bannister's training, except what I read on these boards. It does sound like he didn't do much mileage volume. His repeat paces started off slower at the beginning of the training year and he would cut them down over months and change the recovery times. I'm sure someone else will chime in on this and give better info.
Depends on your definition of base. You can use intervals to build aerobic capacity just like doing continuous runs.
BusainBolt wrote:
Did runners like Bannister and Zatopek, who choose interval training, ever do base training?
Intervals don't have to leave you lying on the track by the end of it, or even out of breath. A high volume of short intervals with short recoveries can be excellent base training, provided you don't run them as hard as possible.
Remember that the term intervals refers to the rest periods, not the running periods. So you can't have active rest between your intervals.
With all due respect to these great (for their era) athletes,if they had done a better base, a la Lydiard type if that had been known and available then, they would have run much faster times.Their pb's are pretty average compared to todays times.
All that said,they both inspired many middle and long distance runners of later times and well deserve their singular places in athletics history.
they didnt do any base, and they sucked
Bannister couldn't even make NCAA's today
joiwef wrote:
Remember that the term intervals refers to the rest periods, not the running periods. So you can't have active rest between your intervals.
So when Bannister ran 10X400m in 58 with 400 recovery in 2 minutes, that wasn't interval training?
Uh, the point is that the intervals ARE the recoveries. Recovery intervals between running repeats.
the reality of it wrote:
joiwef wrote:Remember that the term intervals refers to the rest periods, not the running periods. So you can't have active rest between your intervals.
So when Bannister ran 10X400m in 58 with 400 recovery in 2 minutes, that wasn't interval training?
Bannister ran on a cynder track, if he ran on todays tracks it would have been sub 3:53
I agree.