Coe's multipaced 800m-1500m training.

Aerobic and anaerobic are inaccurate and antiquated terms. Just don't use them. Ever.

If anything talk about the energy pathways themselves.

Alan

Dont worry about the physiological explanations and just focus on the paces / sessions. The 5 pace system is incredibly effective for middle distance events. Horwills early articles are essentially all you need, just dont take them too literally and adjust according to your own recovery ability, When I trained this way I used to do the 3k / 5k sessions in winter as fartleks on grass

Does it really matter what name/terminology you attach to what pace? The basic point is that Coe ran at several different paces - significantly different - each week for the vast majority of the year.

It clearly worked for him, may not be as suitable for others. Why can't it simply be accepted that there are many different ways to train for middle/long distance events and none of them is inherently better than the others. Different athletes are suited to different systems.

basic physiology wrote:

clearing the bs up wrote:

This is what Peter Coe means when he uses these terms

Aerobic Conditioning: Easy Running

Anaerobic Conditioning: Steady State Running (marathon race pace -> half marathon race pace)

Aerobic Capacity: 10k Race pace - 3k Race Pace

Anaerobic Capacity: 1500m Race Pace - 800m Race Pace

Sprint: 400m Race Pace - Maximum Effort

No that is not what Peter Coe meant at all. Steady state runnning is not anaerobic conditioning. And 800 and 1500 is not anaerobic capacity. Anaerobic = sprinting.

What I love about you guys is that 20 people can read the same book and you get 20 different opinions on what was implied.

The key to remember is that there are many different paths to the end result (ie. there is no one right and wrong way to develop a training program)

You all over analyse everything which makes it quite humorous to read.

he didn't do it for the majority of the year.only 3 monthswhen did he start the multi paced stuff i am thinking 18

mark b wrote:

Does it really matter what name/terminology you attach to what pace? The basic point is that Coe ran at several different paces - significantly different - each week for the vast majority of the year.

It clearly worked for him, may not be as suitable for others. Why can't it simply be accepted that there are many different ways to train for middle/long distance events and none of them is inherently better than the others. Different athletes are suited to different systems.

Coach G wrote:

basic physiology wrote:

No that is not what Peter Coe meant at all. Steady state runnning is not anaerobic conditioning. And 800 and 1500 is not anaerobic capacity. Anaerobic = sprinting.

What I love about you guys is that 20 people can read the same book and you get 20 different opinions on what was implied.

The key to remember is that there are many different paths to the end result (ie. there is no one right and wrong way to develop a training program)

You all over analyse everything which makes it quite humorous to read.

I do advocate multipaced training but that period from the late1980s through the early 2000s westerners used Coe's multipaced training as a guise for not training hard enough or doing enough miles.