Dumbest Workout You've Ever Heard

Had a teammate in college. He said in HS his coach had the distance runners (2 milers) once do 110 X 110yds.

3 x (4 x (5 x (400 @ 62) w/ 100 jog rest) w/ 400 jog rest) w/5 min rest

5 miles continuous run at 5k race pace

mile repeats at 800 meter race pace.

notned ecurb/ydissac notneuq wrote:

3 x (4 x (5 x (400 @ 62) w/ 100 jog rest) w/ 400 jog rest) w/5 min rest

So clever.

Crossfit.

End of thread.

Slogging aka distance running.

Any workout designed to elevate VO2max.

notned ecurb/ydissac notneuq wrote:

3 x (4 x (5 x (400 @ 62) w/ 100 jog rest) w/ 400 jog rest) w/5 min rest

(applause)

POD

NotAustin18 wrote:

One time my friend said he was going to sprint as far as he could, then the next day he'd be able to sprint a little longer and just keep doing that until he can sprint for the whole race.

Uh... this sounds like a great training regimen to me.

Similarly, you can reset all your training, but start running at 5:00-mile pace. You know how you started running 1 or 2 miles at 8:00- or 9:00-mile pace way back when? And now you can run a marathon at that pace (or faster) as a long run? Same idea, but just faster to start with. Sub 2-hours, here I come.

Nur Stel wrote:

5 miles continuous run at 5k race pace

My old (who was brilliant) had us do something like this once. Ten minutes at mile pace (not even the slowest developmental guy ran over a ten minute mile). It seemed really stupid at the time but I realized later that our coach pretty much wanted us to die during the workout and keep going.

tacomafan wrote:

Had a teammate in college. He said in HS his coach had the distance runners (2 milers) once do 110 X 110yds.

That's not the worst I've heard of. Check out the one Ritz did in HS:

Wednesday: AM 7 miles easy on trails. PM 3 mile warm-up 10 minutes of stair running. 32 x 400m in 66 with 400m jog. 8×50 meter explosions. 2 mile cool down. (longest day ever!)

Then there's that famous 100 x 200m thing they did at Cornell that Max King was famous for destroying. No wonder he had to take a year off competitive running after graduating.

99% of predict my 5km threads workouts on here

LDOPA wrote:

NotAustin18 wrote:

One time my friend said he was going to sprint as far as he could, then the next day he'd be able to sprint a little longer and just keep doing that until he can sprint for the whole race.

Uh... this sounds like a great training regimen to me.

Similarly, you can reset all your training, but start running at 5:00-mile pace. You know how you started running 1 or 2 miles at 8:00- or 9:00-mile pace way back when? And now you can run a marathon at that pace (or faster) as a long run? Same idea, but just faster to start with. Sub 2-hours, here I come.

In all seriousness, I watched some old interviews talking about some of the big runners during the boom in the 70s that said Ryun, Prefontaine, and Lindgren all did something very similar during their high school days as training. If I can find the link, I will post.

ukathleticscoach wrote:

99% of predict my 5km threads workouts on here

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forgot to post that.

"Runguru" from Omaha once proudly posted about his completion of 40x400 for marathon training.

4 x 1k @ Precious Hozanka w/ 4 mins Sminson

Hardloper wrote:

ukathleticscoach wrote:

99% of predict my 5km threads workouts on here

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forgot to post that.

No, you wouldn't have the imagination to post that.

My HS coach had me run 3x5k in 16:30 each two days before my state meet (I was a 15:00 guy). Guess who had dead legs for his state meet.

I didn't know any better at the time.