rekrunner.
One strange thing it´s that some people on the distance run sport they want to discuss with self-Lydiard terminology (or Lydiard did build it as some do accept) that is out of link with word-wide accepted distant run terminology and distance run methodology. This is the case of the past “resistance” that you say you don´t understand quite well when I use that word. In every regular book of manual of that got distance training contain lexicon, I might read the methodological meaning of word “resistance” and what´s the concept of resistance relate to middle and long distance training.
But you still don´t understand or you think it´s not correct what I mean by resistance. Might be your “run culture” and namely the Lydiard terminology one, a very wired and unique, can´t help you to understand the universal accepted terminology. Open the book of coach course from IAAF and you will read what´s the meaning of resistance. Do you want something more formal, more legal, more universal accepted that the IAAF books ? I´m not a teacher, I tried to help you in this issue, I tried to write often about what´s resistance but you still don´t understand or you say i´m not right. There you might learn for yourself. Another point is that I ask myself how do you understand and interpret my training, what you say you know very well, if you miss to understand the ultimate key which my training was built up, the importance and the interest of “built resistance” that´s the main condition to performance progress. In portuguese every running distance manual got “resistência” as the prime training variable of middle and long distance training.
One example (on the internet)
http://www.omundodacorrida.com/otreinodaresistencia.htmTitle: O TREINO DA RESISTÊNCIA – english translation: RESISTANCE training
Another example (on the internet)
http://www.adal.pt/artigos/Resistencia/Treino_Qualidades_Fisicas_Resistencia.pdfTitle: O TREINO DAS QUALIDADES FISICAS – A RESISTÊNCIA – English translation: RESISTANCE - the training of physical qualities.
This PDF document is one Chapter and part of an thesis of Ph. - Science of Sport – Training methodology done in the University of Porto by Dr. Francisco Alves and the title of his thesis of some 200 pages.
But you rekrunner you don´t know what´s my meaning of resistance. I confess, it´s hard to discuss with someone that doesn´t understand universal training methodology, or because ignores it, or because got wrong concepts, or because follows the Lydiard wired terminology without correspondence with universal accepted training methodology. Might be you got another problem of understand, it´s te problem of english-american science training terminology that also doesn´t correspond to what is universal accepted.
In portuguese “resistência” in Spanish “Resistencia”. In french “la résistance”. In italian “resistenza”. In german “widerstand”. In english “resistance”. in chinese ...
But you still don´t know what´s my meaning of resistance and index of resistance.
How can i debate with someone that says that i miss something of Lydiard but he doesn´t know what´s the meaning of resistance as distance training variable.
Now changing to another your topic.
I got the same problem about your “pace” and “effort”. Run pace is the consequence of chrono time (duration) versus distance. Right ? I hope you know enough mathematics to understand it. We might call about the run pace - SPEED (speed here it´s not the quality of accelerate, which is one requirement of short distance run) but the SPEED here is the result of time that takes to cover a certain distance measured by distance over time spent. Ok, now what effort. Run “effort” is the “charge” the physical consequence of the stimulus, or the physical consequence of a certain pace. Therefore you are right that pace and effort isn´t the same, but since ther´s a link and linear correspondence of effort relate to pace, the slower is the pace, the easy is the effort, and the hard/fast is the pace the harder is the effort .
As it exists one direct correspondence from the pace (a mathematical objective reality) and the “level” of effort perceived by the subject, it´s here that I did say effort and pace indistinctly. But if you want a be very accurate change my pace or effort and vice versa when you think it´s not right.
What can´t be dubious is the use of pace and percents. I read you know something of mathematics. I also know something. On the 80s I did did many programs of astronomy on ZX Spectrum computer (just 48k at that time) in BASIC language and later on the early-mid 90s I did on the same on “C” language. It was long time ago, and I guess i´m still familiar with calculations, but you fail in calculation and also Lydiard is not good mathematician as well poor in physiology out of the high level he was trial-and-error coach and also a good coach leader, but he was an ignorant about the result of pace fractions, what´s the meaning of for instance ¾ one physical and physiologic EFFORT (effort once again) and you with your mathematics skill and him, you both miss the source of the problem of interval training . This will be the issue of my next post to you on next Monday, I hope so. I will say my opinion and we can debate
Ps – I hope that this time with this post I don´t offend no one of the Lydiardists. You people you shall understand that when someone write something serious and not demagogy or hypocrisy or offense I send you the same kind of writing. You mean that I´m this, I´m that. I write this, I write that....Just go back to this thread and see with what kind posts I did start in this thread and who is/are the first one(s) to get out of the serious track with rush and hypocrisy posts directed to me. I want to remember you all that the first time I felt offended it was by Mr Nobby that at the time he didn´t knew yet who I am I. I guess that what I did it to him was to disagree with him politely. I guess that since we smoke the pipe of peace I never refer to him politely. The problem is that I really don´t care about rush posts directed to me but people felt in trouble and upset by my training disagreement and my outstand opinion and nothing else.