Schul - Igoli Training

Perhaps expert is too strong a word. However, as a coach you must be very attentive to the athletes as they run. When discussing effort terms such as "fresh" "good" "hard" might be hard for an athlete and coach to understand and in the words of Schul

"I must be able to understand each person as an individual so I do not place too much tension on their bodies."

This method which I tried to study was way too difficult for me to apply. It's easier to have runners hit 200s in 34 seconds than tell them to run them fresh and watch all of them as they run.

A park in the East means nothing to someone who lives in the Midwest. Believe it or not there are other people who are important besides people from that area!

I)UH*&)uidji67 wrote:

You absolutely DO NOT have to be an expert in the method to use it.

You do have to have some experience training, you can't just start a novice with it. The goal is to do Igloi workouts so that day in and day out you feel like you did doing whatever training you did before.

I went from a 58 to a 54 min 10 mile doing Igloi. Unfortunately, I suffered a freak accident, that had nothing to do with training, before I could obliterate my 1600, 3200 and 5000 times. My second fastest continuous 5k ever was run during that Igloi trained 54 min 10 mile.

Can you speak more about how you started training with these methods?

Particularly - "The goal is to do Igloi workouts so that day in and day out you feel like you did doing whatever training you did before."

It's obviously not some kind of magical secret but I'm sure there's something to it, and many here would appreciate your comments.

McKee wrote:

A park in the East means nothing to someone who lives in the Midwest. Believe it or not there are other people who are important besides people from that area!

I see that reading comprehension is not your strong point.

as my handle states.....right in the middle of it.

Bob is a remarkable person but an outliar when it comes to training. Schul style training on works for a very few people. I have seen it ruin many young runners season by peaking them too early.

Experienced runners need years of aerobic and speed development to handle it.

If you have poor running biomechanics you might as well not try it.

It took Bob years to develop into a champion but if you look, he had one great year of racing. He was lucky to get to 64 without injury. Most people cant do 365 days of repeats.

There is a running group in Dayton that does coached Schul/Igoli workouts two nights a week. I've been running with them for about four years. It's not an elite group by any stretch of the imagination, but the workouts have helped me tremendously.