Mo Farah's PB's at age 22

His initial big improvement came when coached by Alan Storey (coach to numerous World and Olympic champions), he had been training with Craig Mottrams amongst others through his early twenties and was training very hard (not the fairy story about him being a non training recreational runner), he was on an elite programme. He then moved in and lived full time with Micah Kogo and other elite Kenyans when Kogo was running world records on the road. Even then there was nothing to suggest this level of performance. Something changed when he went to America.

I'm not Simone just chipping in on this I've seen him race in the uk since he was 16, he was good and ran well at national level but he did not stand out as exceptional in a period of pretty poor uk distsnce running.

The believe that post 2008 marked the start of an effective and well thought out multifaceted conditioning approach to develop some fitness qualities that his training was clearly deficient within up to that point. If he was super responsive to these 1% ers, then 1% becomes 2 or 3 %, and then you are cooking on gas.

Right approach wrote:

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The believe that post 2008 marked the start of an effective and well thought out multifaceted conditioning approach to develop some fitness qualities that his training was clearly deficient within up to that point. If he was super responsive to these 1% ers, then 1% becomes 2 or 3 %, and then you are cooking on gas.

My bad, I thought that he had the most unusual progression of any world class athlete. I guess that I'm new to this sport.

Can you provide me other examples of world class athlete that went from very good in their mid 20s to world beaters in their late 20s/early 30s?

I believe that Carlos Lopes is one such example, but do you have others?

Alan Storey back in 2006-

"Mo has the ability to run 12:44 and 26:23. But only if he dedicates himself."

BTW, I said Rupp was "faster" than Mo. That has nothing to do with head-to-head.

Leirbag wrote:

Alan Storey back in 2006-

"Mo has the ability to run 12:44 and 26:23. But only if he dedicates himself."

BTW, I said Rupp was "faster" than Mo. That has nothing to do with head-to-head.

I guess that he hasn't dedicated himself yet...

So I've had 2 posts already deeleted in which I talked about my suspicions about Mo. Before going any further, let's see if this simple post is allowed to stay.

Ff dfv f gf gfcdcef wrote:

Right approach wrote:

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The believe that post 2008 marked the start of an effective and well thought out multifaceted conditioning approach to develop some fitness qualities that his training was clearly deficient within up to that point. If he was super responsive to these 1% ers, then 1% becomes 2 or 3 %, and then you are cooking on gas.

My bad, I thought that he had the most unusual progression of any world class athlete. I guess that I'm new to this sport.

Can you provide me other examples of world class athlete that went from very good in their mid 20s to world beaters in their late 20s/early 30s?

I believe that Carlos Lopes is one such example, but do you have others?

If I was coaching you from a young age, prescribing training that was just easy running and that is what we did for 10 years, gradually increasing the volume until you were in your late 20's. What do you think would then happen if we introduced intervals to your training at this point? Surely you would not improve because....well your in your late 20's!

LOL. Oh gee so it's Intervals. I wonder how no one else thought of that before.

Stupidity wrote:

LOL. Oh gee so it's Intervals. I wonder how no one else thought of that before.

No, just trying to illustrate the point of super compensation within complimentary fitness qualities.

It seems that you have to break things down and express your points in very simple anologies to get through to the thick skulls on these boards.

Stupidity wrote:

LOL. Oh gee so it's Intervals. I wonder how no one else thought of that before.

It's intervals AND someone showing him how to bench press.

Two 1 % improvements. So that translates directly to 1+1% = 2% improvement on the track.

Actually I think someone showed him squats in the gym, so let's call that 1.5% improvement from getting a gym pass.

So now we have a direct improvement 1+1.5=2.5% improvement on track.

which is exactly how much his 10000m and 1500m times improved after he hit 28.

See it's obvious. Don't know why you hating haters be hate hate hating so much.

Right Approach wrote:

Ff dfv f gf gfcdcef wrote:

My bad, I thought that he had the most unusual progression of any world class athlete. I guess that I'm new to this sport.

Can you provide me other examples of world class athlete that went from very good in their mid 20s to world beaters in their late 20s/early 30s?

I believe that Carlos Lopes is one such example, but do you have others?

If I was coaching you from a young age, prescribing training that was just easy running and that is what we did for 10 years, gradually increasing the volume until you were in your late 20's. What do you think would then happen if we introduced intervals to your training at this point? Surely you would not improve because....well your in your late 20's!

This is a fantastic point. So obvious now you've mentioned it.

And i can't think of a better training partner to do "easy running" with than Micah Kogo, who Mo trained with for at least 5 years in his early to mid 20's.

Easy running wrote:

Right Approach wrote:

If I was coaching you from a young age, prescribing training that was just easy running and that is what we did for 10 years, gradually increasing the volume until you were in your late 20's. What do you think would then happen if we introduced intervals to your training at this point? Surely you would not improve because....well your in your late 20's!

This is a fantastic point. So obvious now you've mentioned it.

And i can't think of a better training partner to do "easy running" with than Micah Kogo, who Mo trained with for at least 5 years in his early to mid 20's.

At least someone gets it on here. Might as well be trying to explain how the internet works to my dog.

One thing I don't get is clearly the vast majority on here do not believe in what they are seeing 100% of the time. Then why watch and why waste your time sniping on these boards? Why not watch a pure skill based sport where you can believe in the performances. I hear table tennis is a good watch. Meet you all on the 'are all ping pong players doped to the gills' thread.

Clearly, a crazy bunch of MFs

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/the-only-ping-pong-scandal-you-need-to-know-about

Also, they succumb to the temptation to get an unfair advantage just like anyone else

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/04/table-tennis-doping-olympics_n_1741894.html?ir=Australia

And they have the same tendency to eat contaminated meat which, I gather, is actually a real risk in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrij_Ovtcharov

Lydiard is God wrote:

Clearly, a crazy bunch of MFs

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/the-only-ping-pong-scandal-you-need-to-know-about

Also, they succumb to the temptation to get an unfair advantage just like anyone else

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/04/table-tennis-doping-olympics_n_1741894.html?ir=Australia

And they have the same tendency to eat contaminated meat which, I gather, is actually a real risk in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrij_Ovtcharov

You sad, sad individual.

I'll come to you for counselling, shall I? Humourless twat.

And anyway, are you too dense to see that they are still trying to get an unfair advantage? The mentality is the same-I'm not good enough to compete without trying to do something dodgy and 'grey area' to get the upper hand. It's only the methods that are different.

Lydiard is God wrote:

I'll come to you for counselling, shall I? Humourless twat.

And anyway, are you too dense to see that they are still trying to get an unfair advantage? The mentality is the same-I'm not good enough to compete without trying to do something dodgy and 'grey area' to get the upper hand. It's only the methods that are different.

No, don't come to me, there is very little I could do with such a simple dogmatic mind.

Out of interest where on you black and white spectrum would you place the following:

Access to superior facilities

Superior support team with knowledge of legal supplementation, conditioning programmes and fatigue markers.

How much do people here think coaching matters at the high end? That seems to be what this conversion is boiling down to. If access to PEDs comes with the coach, then presumably the coach matters a lot but what if we only concern ourselves with clean athletes/coaches. How much then does the choice of coach contribute to an athletes times: 0%, 0.1%, 1%, 3%, ...? Seriously, I'm curious.