Insane Training - Which Professional Runners Stand Out?

There's no chance in hell that is a typical day for Jan Frodeno. But if it is he needs to reevaluate his training plan.

edward teach wrote:

Yuki Kawauchi does some weird workouts. I think when he's not racing, which is not often, he runs/hikes pretty much all day on one weekend day at a slow pace.

In terms of intensity, Geb and Bekele's track workouts would quickly crush just about anyone else.

Toshihiko Seko did a "long run" of up to 88km. Apparently, Shigeru and Takeshi So ran even longer.

Here is a weekly schedule of Naoko Takahashi.

Mon. am 16km progression. pm 17km progression.

Tue. am 16km progression. pm 35km.

Wed. am 16 km progression. pm 2000m x 10.

Thu. am 16km progression. pm 2 hr easy.

Fri. am 16km progression. pm 17km progression.

Sat. am 40km time trial.

Sun. am 16 km progression. pm 2 hr easy.

I don't know how fast she ran "2 hr easy" was. Her total volume was 1200-1300km/month. She also did 1000 sit-ups in the morning and evening every day. (No, that's not 100.)

Mizuki Noguchi presumably trained harder than Takahashi. She also lifted heavy weights.

Game of schmones wrote:

I'd say either Lagat or Rudisha.

Why would you say that?

They are not known at all for insane training.

You are a liar.

This. Has anyone tried the 3x20x440yards?

fred wrote:

HardLoper wrote:

These triathlon "day in the life" videos are really impressive. This one is Jan Frodeno doing his workouts between 5:30 am and 7 pm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy-8NeoTfeI

Holy crap!

This seems like really stupid training to me, and I am a serious cyclist and was a great swimmer when I was younger. I am not sure who is advising him, but they must know more than I do.

Each of those workouts seem fine done sometime during the week, but 6 workouts in a day with all those long breaks in between seems stupid. You can see why the triathletes need drugs too now.

newname wrote:

fred wrote:

Holy crap!

This seems like really stupid training to me, and I am a serious cyclist and was a great swimmer when I was younger. I am not sure who is advising him, but they must know more than I do.

Each of those workouts seem fine done sometime during the week, but 6 workouts in a day with all those long breaks in between seems stupid. You can see why the triathletes need drugs too now.

Jan could be playing mind games with his competitors with this as well. Makes himself look like an unstoppable force. No chance that's a typical day for Jan, or any athlete.

fred wrote:

HardLoper wrote:

These triathlon "day in the life" videos are really impressive. This one is Jan Frodeno doing his workouts between 5:30 am and 7 pm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy-8NeoTfeI

Holy crap!

I don't why you guys are so impressed by that and even say it looks miserable. I wish I could live and train like that.

The only thing here that actually looks hard is Aki-Bua's training.

This is pretty impressive, from an interview with former Olympic Gold medalist and 5 time XC-world champ John Ngugi:

"This is a speed work session at the range at 100% for me. I would complete the following: 200 meters: 30.0; 800 meters 1:52 - 1:59, 1,500 meters 3:45 - 3:56; 3,000 meters 8:10 - 8:15; 5,000 meters 13:45 - 14:00; 10,000 meters 29:01 - 32:00. This is one is complete course where we started from 200 meters to 10,000 meters and back vice versa, meaning two full sets of this training."

Here is the interview:

http://www.garycohenrunning.com/Interviews/Ngugi.aspx

Seriously wtf. How can anyone enjoy that in the slightest? Is all of that even possible?? How much would you have to be eating and hydrating..[/quote]

I was thinking of this reading the Jordan Hasay 5000 cal / day threads and thinking it didn't really sound like all that much.

I competed as a pro triathlete back in the 80s...not much money in it at that time....and trained like this....and ate WAY more than 5000 cal/ day.

Typical week included 70 miles of running (with a long run, a tempo run, interval day and a race), 400 miles of cycling (with a long day, an interval day and a race), and about 10 miles of swimming.

Was a swimmer as a kid, which I think have me the aerobic base.....20 km of swim intervals a day will get your heart and lungs set

Marksch wrote:

Was a swimmer as a kid, which I think have me the aerobic base.....20 km of swim intervals a day will get your heart and lungs set

Calling BS on 120km/week as a kid, or ever.

Even Perkins or Salnikov never approached that.

Liar.

He probably meant 20 hours

Bill Walker wrote:

Jan could be playing mind games with his competitors with this as well. Makes himself look like an unstoppable force. No chance that's a typical day for Jan, or any athlete.

You may be right. He was doing stanindg-start sprints. Several in a row. That would not be in anyone's best interest.

I can see getting up at 5:30 to swim with people, that is normal. I can see 3 sessions a day, that is routine. But 3 running sessions in one day and none of them are aerobic runs? That makes no sense.

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Going vegetarian wrote:

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