Now that we've done away with "minimalist" running, we can start training in heavy work boots. It's like strength training and aerobic workouts all in one! Especially useful for the time-pressed hobbyjogger with a job and family.
Now that we've done away with "minimalist" running, we can start training in heavy work boots. It's like strength training and aerobic workouts all in one! Especially useful for the time-pressed hobbyjogger with a job and family.
Zatopek did it like 50 years ago.
What did Zatopek ever do? 5k, 10k and marathon champion in the same olympics and repeated as 5k and 10k champion. I guess we should do his workouts. 40x400 on a dirt track in combat boots. It worked well for him
I am going to my army navy surplus store to buy me a pair this afternoon.
In addition to the runners listed, many athletes in other sports wear weights in their shoes when training, or weight vests, to "maximize" their training.
I think a blend of both kinds of training could actually be the most beneficial. Minimal shoes (not vibrams or barefoot necessarily) for distance workouts, weighted shoes for interval training.
Anyone done anything like this?
Not "maximalist" but I run in Nike Shox, which might be the opposite of Vibrams. In high school I did a few runs in army boots. I felt really light after taking the boots off, but I didn't feel anything the next day like I gained strength. I probably didn't do it enough. My longest run in army boots was 11 miles. They were HEAVY.
Didn't Zatopek also do workouts carrying his wife piggy-back style and also jog in place in the shower? Did he wear the combat boots in the shower? That sounds a little messy to me.
Mr. Obvious wrote:
Didn't Zatopek also do workouts carrying his wife piggy-back style?
Only because he got her leg broken in a previous 'silly training session', and she couldn't get around...
he was hopitalized because of this and it cost him his 2nd marathon gold.
This is brilliant. I would be interested in knowing how fast someone could run a marathon in shape ups.
This is brilliant. I would be interested in knowing how fast someone could run a marathon in shape ups.
ask Joe Montana
biggus dickus wrote:
This is brilliant. I would be interested in knowing how fast someone could run a marathon in shape ups.
It's not about running the race in maximalist shoes. it's about training in them. And shape ups are stupid. Even I, as a maximalist would never train, nor race in shape ups.
Shape ups are the gayest idea since Vibrams.
I believe that Hoka shoes are the gayest idea since the Fingahs.
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Didn't Zatopek also do workouts carrying his wife piggy-back style and also jog in place in the shower? Did he wear the combat boots in the shower? That sounds a little messy to me.
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Well, Zatopek, like many runners, was thin, so maybe he had to run around in the shower just to get wet. Which reminds me of Steve Ovett's referring to indoor racing as rather like running around in the bathtub only without the taps [faucets]. Which reminds me of reading that Ovett, just before some year's Dream Mile, probably in the early 1980s, replied with this wisecrack to a question about how rain might affect the race: he said if it rains, it will be a wet Dream Mile. I'm unsure if that was broadcast over the television or radio.