Getting injured on current milage? Solution just increase it by 50miles per week!

You'll be fitter and tougher with stronger joints and ligaments so your races and intense workouts won't hurt as bad afterward. Basic logic.

If you do it correctly, yes it will work. Jogging 100 miles a week real slow for a couple of weeks will make you very strong and injury resistant. Than when you reduce your volume and start doing workouts again you won't be as fragile.

Illogical right? wrote:

Does this method sound dumb to anyone else but me! If your body can’t handle 50miles how is 100miles going to help?!

Don't knock it if you haven't tried it

Illogical right? wrote:

Does this method sound dumb to anyone else but me! If your body can’t handle 50miles how is 100miles going to help?!

Great plan. I’ve had two running injuries lifetime. First one - runner’s knee in 2010 when I was averaging about 30 mpw. Next one - IT Band flare causing sever hip ban in 2012 while averaging about 40 mpw.

I ran 70-80 during 2016, 2017 and 90-100 last year and so far this year. Feel great.

GBohannon wrote:

Illogical right? wrote:

Does this method sound dumb to anyone else but me! If your body can’t handle 50miles how is 100miles going to help?!

Great plan. I’ve had two running injuries lifetime. First one - runner’s knee in 2010 when I was averaging about 30 mpw. Next one - IT Band flare causing sever hip ban in 2012 while averaging about 40 mpw.

I ran 70-80 during 2016, 2017 and 90-100 last year and so far this year. Feel great.

Severe hip pain. Not sever hip ban.

Won’t doubling mileage increase stress and recovery time on the body though. What are the guidelines?

No sessions included?

Just easy runs?

10%increase per month?

Hmmmmmm wrote:

Won’t doubling mileage increase stress and recovery time on the body though. What are the guidelines?

No sessions included?

Just easy runs?

10%increase per month?

100 mpw of which nothing but easy jogging. You will notice little aches and pains. But if you keep it to nothing but easy jogging you should be good. Do this for a couple of weeks(about 4 weeks should be good). When you start doing workouts again, reduce total running volume.

What about lost speed though?

Acceptable for teenagers? 17-18?

Any scientific study’s to prove your point?

Still not buying it. Anyone on my side?!

Hmmmmmm wrote:

What about lost speed though?

Acceptable for teenagers? 17-18?

Well that's why you reduce volume and start doing workouts again. To paraphrase Peter Snell, lack of speed is due to lack of speed training, not too much mileage.

Is it appropriate for 17-18 year olds? Depends, you have to make that choice. There have been plenty of teenagers who have trained much harder than jogging 100 MPW. Look up Jim Ryun, Ritzenhein and Rudy Chapa High school training if you want to know what I mean.

If you do it correctly wrote:

Hmmmmmm wrote:

What about lost speed though?

Acceptable for teenagers? 17-18?

Well that's why you reduce volume and start doing workouts again. To paraphrase Peter Snell, lack of speed is due to lack of speed training, not too much mileage.

Is it appropriate for 17-18 year olds? Depends, you have to make that choice. There have been plenty of teenagers who have trained much harder than jogging 100 MPW. Look up Jim Ryun, Ritzenhein and Rudy Chapa High school training if you want to know what I mean.

Ok thanks, advice greatly appreciated.

Should I jump into 100miles per week or go into it slowly? 10% each month?

How much experience do you have in this area?

Does increasing mileage really prevent injury? Wouldn’t it make you more prone?

Try it and report back.

I doubt it will work. 100 miles a week are a LOT of miles.

I will never understand the obsession some runners have with their weekly mileage.

More miles per week come automatically when you run everything faster. Just slooging along to get to certain mileage numbers won't make you faster, ever.

Illogical right? wrote:

Does this method sound dumb to anyone else but me! If your body can’t handle 50miles how is 100miles going to help?!

See when you turn the corner and you suddenly find yourself a cripple... LMAO

Illogical right? wrote:

Does this method sound dumb to anyone else but me! If your body can’t handle 50miles how is 100miles going to help?!

That sounds drastic but some people do better with higher mileage lower intensity. A girl who I went to school with, who was All-American and top 3 at NCAA's was able to stay healthy at 80mpw with a moderate level of intensity. When she changed programs to around 60 MPW and high intensity she was injured every few months and stopped improving. Different people do better on different plans. Now your 50 MPW to 100 just seems like someone who doesn't know what they're doing throwing darts at a wall with a blindfold on.

A year ago I'd only been running 30-50 miles a week for some months when a friend and I made a drunken bet that I couldn't run 120 miles in a week with no ramp up. I won the bet and found that by the end of that week all of the little niggles, I'm in my 40s and something always hurts a little, had disappeared and even though I was tired I felt bullet proof. I was just running twice a day anywhere between 7:45 and 8:45 pace and while I did get bored I felt that I came out the other side a bit tougher mentally too.

I`m with you. Sound dumb. I`ll tell you the secret to stay injury free and just improve. Far too many runners build their weekly training by first decide how many miles they will do in the week. Instead they should ask themselves: What`s the lowest amount of mileage that will complete my workouts so I will improve? It`s like building a house. First you need the house body and then you just mount the rest based on needs. The workouts are like the house body and the rest of the house is like the steady distance you put in between the workouts. Sounds simple? Yeah , it really is . The art is to find out the breakpoint where the amount of exercise is sufficient for continued development. Then it`s only to add the very best individual paces to the different sessions and you have designed a training system with inbuilt injury prevention and constantly evolving. And when you stay injury free for long times you will continue to improve until you reach your goals.

- Magic coaching , by COACH J.S -

Just ask yourself, would you rather burn out or fade away?

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1332198

David MF Bedford wrote:

Just ask yourself, would you rather burn out or fade away?

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1332198

Don`t really understand what your point is? With the kind of training I advocate you will neither burn you out nor fade away.