How do you go about 'training' them from birth (ie soccer, hockey). When do you introduce running and assuming they like it how do you train them to be the best they can be in their 20s. Just curious to see what the perfect training would be like.
How do you go about 'training' them from birth (ie soccer, hockey). When do you introduce running and assuming they like it how do you train them to be the best they can be in their 20s. Just curious to see what the perfect training would be like.
The perfect formula is parent selection. All the rest is just icing.
Genetic cake training icing wrote:
The perfect formula is parent selection. All the rest is just icing.
This is most important, but from an epigenetic standpoint, grow them up at altitude playing Year-round competitive soccer w/swim team in the summer. But, they have to want to do it.
no. you need to tickle them really hard and that makes their core strong
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As soon as that kid can toddle, no more stroller, make him/her walk everywhere. That will keep them from being fat on juice drinks while being driven around for the first 4 years of their life.
There's no such thing as perfect formula. The end result (personal bests) would likely be practically the same whether you start real training at younger age like Jakob Ingebrigtsen. He doesn't have as much of room for improvements anymore (would think), and my guess is that he will reach his peak at younger age than most people. Hopefully he stays healthy, we'll see.
But in my mind the "close enough-perfect formula" would be the following. The years between ~10-16 should include speed and skill development (multiple events / sports), some body weight circuit training, jumping (plyometrics), some distance training and racing too with a lighter attitude, no programmed schedule. Competing in a various events, sprints, jumps, even in throwing events would be great. Rest days are important also in that age. This would lay the basis for the coming specific training. You'll work your top speed etc at a time that is ideal for a distance runner, while strengthening the muscles, bones and tendons to handle the coming event specific training. At that point (~15-16 years old), at first you would focus on shorter/middle distances, before possibly moving to longer distances if it seems to fit better for you. Never neglect top speed work. It's the basis for many events and sports.
If you're in America, forget it, you'll never be fast.
Be born in Kenya wrote:
If you're in America, forget it, you'll never be fast.
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Bill Oregon wrote:
Be born in Kenya wrote:
If you're in America, forget it, you'll never be fast.
This^
Say that to Nick Willis, or Rodahl, etc.
The conventional wisdom seems to be that the best preparation for serious training is a regime of other sports and nonspecific training. And this may be true for kids of European descent. But the fact is that African runners have laid down marks, in nearly every event, that no non-African has ever come close to. So I think it is at least worth considering that most, if not all, of those African runners have put in thousands of miles in their lifetimes before beginning any kind of specific training. So maybe the best preparation for running is simply running.
However I do think that it makes sense to emphasize speed, strength, and power development at a young age.
Be from East Africa + altitude + train + EPO
Wilson Kipketer didn't run to school, for an example, but you're right that many probably did run/walk. And probably played games like soccer (not by Playstation) and simply did more physical activity. The white kids in these days are usually too fragile for straightforward "just run" method, and the speed etc development could also be our shot against africans, being especially beneficial at 800-1500m. Which are also the events where non-africans still can be quite competitive, other than at longer distances.
Basic formula:
1.Raise them in high altitude.
2.Feed them a ethiopian diet.
3.Have them run 10k to and from school.
4.Have them on Saturday run 7 miles to the market and back.
5.Never buy them shoes
Libertarian vegan wrote:
Basic formula:
1.Raise them in high altitude.
2.Feed them a ethiopian diet.
3.Have them run 10k to and from school.
4.Have them on Saturday run 7 miles to the market and back.
5.Never buy them shoes
this is how geb did it
anyone have any info on Bekele's younger years? didn't he play soccer as a kid?
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Jamisonmooresey wrote:
So maybe the best preparation for running is simply running.
Wow, I never would have guessed!
Formula=
2 parents with long legs and very good aerobic capacity.
A pinch of patience.
Years of plyometrics
Tons of encouragement
High expectations on academics
Input on speed and strength workouts
A lot of staying out of the way (from HS coaches too)
Add the right college, and college coach, and this formula will more than likely produce a better than 75% runner.