Were you coaching him in his buildup to Barcelona? Could you tell us about him? I'm sure many of us would love to see his training.
Thank you.
Were you coaching him in his buildup to Barcelona? Could you tell us about him? I'm sure many of us would love to see his training.
Thank you.
Renato is not coaching Julien, but hes training is influenced by the Canova philosophy.
It is interesting to follow Wanders as he kind of pulled a Robertson and went to Kenya for long periods of time from age 18. His family isn't poor by any means and in Switzerland he would have great facilities. But one thing he hasn't there: the world besteht training partners and a life only consisting of running and resting.
For such a young guy to take this step and see what it takes and going after it was a very mature move. I think he also has a very clear mindset and didn't go to junior worlds as he wanted to play with the big boys. (What didn't happens).
Follow his instagram for some of his training. But it is nothing new or special. It is consistent hard work at altitude the Kenyan way.
- high altitude year round
- moderate mileage with good quality
-longruns fast
- intervals with surge recoveries
-humble lifestyle
-winners mindset
-workethic
-recovery
For the past 6 weeks he has trained specifically for the half marathon. That was around 170-180 km/week (110miles approx).
In that time a few of the sessions he's done are the following: 2×32km long runs (one of which was in 1h57)
He did one day 10×1200 in 3'26" avg in the morning and a crazy session of shorter intervals (600s, 500s .... and everything until 200s.)
He sleeps 11h a day. 2 core sessions a week, 1 weight lifting session.
You can find some of his training if you follow his instagram and then a few pages on facebook share some sessions. He also does regularly a continuous uphill tempo run.
As far I know, he is still coached by Marco Jäger from his hometown club Geneva. But his training philosophy is strongly influenced by Canova.
This is how his training week is generally structred:
Monday
AM: 60min «comfortable-steady» (3’50-3’30/km)
PM: 40min «regenerative» (4’00/km) + 10x100m hillsprints
Tuesday
AM: 5x(5x400m) rest: 30″ and 5′ (65″ pace) + 3x200m rest: 2’ (26″ pace)
PM: rest or shakeout
Wednesday
AM: 50-60min «regenerative» (4’00-3’55/km)
PM: 60-90min general strength + shakeout + diagonals
Thursday
AM: 60min «steady» (3’35-3’30/km)
PM: 45min «steady» (3’30/km)
Friday
AM: 18km «regenerative-comfortable» (4’00-3’40/km)
PM: 40min «regenerative» + 8-9x100m slight downhill
Saturday
AM: 25-30km progressive long run (3’40 to 3’00/km) OR 12km tempo run (3’05-3’00/km) OR fartlek: 7x(2km hard/1km steady), pace: 6’00 to 5’45 for the 2km, 3’25-3’30 for the 1 km.
PM: rest, jacuzzi or sauna
Sunday
AM: 50-60min «regenerative» (4’00/km)
PM: strength + shakeout + diagonals
source:
www.athle.ch/2017/03/15/julien-wanders-je-reagis-tres-bien-aux-sorties-longues/
According to that article he runs 3:40-4:00/km, that is 6-6:30/mile for "easy runs", considering it is in Iten which is at 8k feet altitude and never flat.
Seems pretty consistent with what Moen (coached by Canova) does...
ITENBOY wrote:
According to that article he runs 3:40-4:00/km, that is 6-6:30/mile for "easy runs", considering it is in Iten which is at 8k feet altitude and never flat.
Seems pretty consistent with what Moen (coached by Canova) does...
What's special about that?
Hardloper wrote:
What's special about that?
The special is that he can run 60:09 HM
Nice clip of Julien Wanders training, it looks like he gets his program sent by his swiss coach and then he leads a session with Kenyan runners that help him during w/o.
He just posted the last 3 weeks of his training before Barcelona half on his Facebook page.
The coach of Julien is Marc Jaeger. We are in touch by email, but he's the full responsible for the training plan of Julien. I never wrote some part of training of Julien, and with Marc I never spoke about Julien in specific way, giving only some general advice, especially after the situation of last year, when Julien had a very hard training, but probably went in overtraining, because was not able to compete well during summer.
Sometimes we have mails about training regarding general situations, but Marc is now able to manage very well the training, and, like Julien, used the previous mistakes for learning something about the specific way to improve, process that every coach has to face when the goal is to drive a talented athlete to international level.
Which difference between Julien and Sondre ? Sondre is 5 years older, and is more Marathon runner than Julien. They can have some common point about half marathon, and could be very interesting to see how they can run in DL in Oslo, when there is a 10000m organized for trying to better the old National Record of Norway (aim around 27'30").
Renato Canova wrote:
The coach of Julien is Marc Jaeger. We are in touch by email, but he's the full responsible for the training plan of Julien. I never wrote some part of training of Julien, and with Marc I never spoke about Julien in specific way, giving only some general advice, especially after the situation of last year, when Julien had a very hard training, but probably went in overtraining, because was not able to compete well during summer.
Sometimes we have mails about training regarding general situations, but Marc is now able to manage very well the training, and, like Julien, used the previous mistakes for learning something about the specific way to improve, process that every coach has to face when the goal is to drive a talented athlete to international level.
Which difference between Julien and Sondre ? Sondre is 5 years older, and is more Marathon runner than Julien. They can have some common point about half marathon, and could be very interesting to see how they can run in DL in Oslo, when there is a 10000m organized for trying to better the old National Record of Norway (aim around 27'30").
He is a follower of your philosophy of having 2/3 easy days in order to recover properly between hard workouts, right?
Julien's training in preparation for Barcelona:
https://www.facebook.com/JulienWandersOfficiel/posts/1879343658773856
Our video with Julien Wanders living and training in Kenya WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES: https://vimeo.com/255808011
ATHLE.ch wrote:
Our video with Julien Wanders living and training in Kenya WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES:
https://vimeo.com/255808011
Keep us updated.... GREAT STUFF guys!
ATHLE.ch wrote:
Our video with Julien Wanders living and training in Kenya WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES:
https://vimeo.com/255808011
AWESOME vid! Keep them coming!
That’s an attitude other American and European runners could learn from!
Great video btw, excited for Episode 2!