i know he did 400's and once a week 2400's and did 28 miles a week in the winter.Has anyone got more details about his training?
i know he did 400's and once a week 2400's and did 28 miles a week in the winter.Has anyone got more details about his training?
before his sub 4 he did 10 x 440y at 58.8 with 2 minutes recovery, he also did 7 x 880y in 2:06 unsure of recovery, probably long recovery though
did 1320y time trials as was usual during that time, fastest time was 2:52.9...get this, 3 years before his 3:59
can't think of anything else off the top of my head
i dont know a lot about his training but i was reading the Haile Gebr book and there was a chapter that discussed the evolution of training methods.
Cant remember the exact quote but it was something like "... bannister and his egalitarian oxford buddies who trained a maximum of 1hr a day and considered the harder methods of zatopek as cheating"
Read his autobiography, called the first 4 minutes, reissued as the four minute mile. Very light training by today's standards, or even the standards of the 1960s, or even compared to what John Landy was doing in 1952-54. He was a helluva talent and determined.
While it might be considered "light" training (even Bannister has confessed that his training was not optimal), there are many people who have bought the book and did what Bannister did, and have done very well with it--including running sub 4.
Many on this board would make similiar comments about Jumbo Elliott's training practices--and none of them have Jumbo's results.
Richard Stiller, a Senior Division miler, wrote that Bannister used a 3/4-mile repeats workout as a standard.
When Bannister could run 3-flat for 3/4's with impunity, he knew he was ready for a sub-4.
Bannister used the shorter interval breakdowns of the four minute mile (240 seconds) to establish his interval goals:
400 = 60
800 = 2:00
1320 = 3:00
I believe it was from this that the fixation with repeat 400's began.
krike wrote:
i know he did 400's and once a week 2400's and did 28 miles a week in the winter.Has anyone got more details about his training?
28 miles a week in Winter? that's maybe what he said, but his freind and fellow World Record holder Chris Chattaway, who paced him during that first sub 4, said that Bannister used to say he was doing a lot less training than he was actually doing. Bannister was quite secretive because he wanted to be the first under 4 minutes.
I believe that the book was titled "The Four-Minute Mile." I had the chance to meet Arthur Lydiard in New York, and in conversation, he mentioned that he felt the Bannister's achieving this milestone was a bit of a fluke, that he was seriously undertrained. But, in my opinion, that shows what dedication, desire, a strong physiology background and good pacers and other support will let you achieve.