Filip Ingebrigsten aqua jogged 4-5 hours a day???

When I've had to aqua jog in the past, the 1-2 hours spent in the pool often felt like I'd only run a couple of miles. Can't see how 4-5 hours would be too detrimental (pretty boring though). But I doubt he's actually going that long, he's probably adding his other daily cross training to that 4-5 hour total

aqua boy wrote:

When I've had to aqua jog in the past, the 1-2 hours spent in the pool often felt like I'd only run a couple of miles. Can't see how 4-5 hours would be too detrimental (pretty boring though). But I doubt he's actually going that long, he's probably adding his other daily cross training to that 4-5 hour total

I wouldn't put it past an Ingebrigtsen to aqua jog 4 hours a day

chlorinated wrote:

"As soon as I picked up the stress fracture of the foot

He talks about it like he contracted a contagious disease.

I had a torn planter in college and did 2.5 hours a day in the pool, no belt, for 3 weeks straight. Lots of minute on :30 off. Then raced the second day back and fitness was still there.

If I was ever a pro like Filip and it was my livelihood i can see going 2hours twice a day.

If it happens again he can listen to the Joe Rogan - Alex Jones podcast all the way through for each 4hr40min session.

Whatever it takes

Pros:

Maintain your aerobic fitness.

Cons:

You're on a water treadmill.

This reminds me though of Toshihiko Seko who couldn't run for a while. So he would just walk, a lot. 6 hours a day of walking. When he did finally comeback, he was better than ever before.

Amateur wrote:

I had a torn planter in college and did 2.5 hours a day in the pool, no belt, for 3 weeks straight. Lots of minute on :30 off. Then raced the second day back and fitness was still there.

If I was ever a pro like Filip and it was my livelihood i can see going 2hours twice a day.

If it happens again he can listen to the Joe Rogan - Alex Jones podcast all the way through for each 4hr40min session.

Whatever it takes

You could have researched ways to heal it faster. Then you might have stumbled on the correct spelling.

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The article says "....alternative training such as aqua-jogging". It does not say "aqua-jogged five hours a day".

Four to five hours a day of alternative training such as aqua-jogging does not mean 4-5 hrs/day of aqua jogging.

I would not put it past him to do an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening sometimes, but I'm sure that there was plenty of cycling, maybe xc skiing, roller skiing, and so on.

As to the effectiveness of doing it, I am a big proponent of running in the pool. I did that in college for 45 minutes a day my last two years when I was injured. Although I couldn't even walk up steps with my left leg and couldn't do intervals without my knee stiffening up and not being able to bend it, I ran an 800m pr by 7 seconds from high school in my first race after 8 months of not being able to run much of anything, and the second time out I had a shot at much faster. My speed was substantially greater, in fact, than it had ever been. The point is that you can get in great shape this way. It won't work for all injuries. I have been doing it again recently because of a calf injury and it seems to make my calf cramp up instead of getting better. However, you can do quite high intensity for a long time, a lot longer than on land, with other injuries.

Filip also did aqua jogging in in the Spring of 2017 or 2018 after injuring his foot at the Stanford meet, yet he recovered quickly enough to either medal at world's that year or run 3:30 at Monaco last year.

That's some Bill McChesney level cross training

He liked cross training also

one of the team ingebigtsen eps, filip is injured and is doing fast walking on the treadmill with the incline maxed

Aqua jogging is cheaper than my training with an injury. I'm using an Alter G treadmill. It's about $80/month. 2 runs per week.

Yes, he did crosstraining "such as aquajogging",

elsewhere he has also contributed his good 2017 season to

a lot of basic strength-training in 2016.

Amateur wrote:

I had a torn planter in college and did 2.5 hours a day in the pool, no belt, for 3 weeks straight. Lots of minute on :30 off. Then raced the second day back and fitness was still there.

If I was ever a pro like Filip and it was my livelihood i can see going 2hours twice a day.

If it happens again he can listen to the Joe Rogan - Alex Jones podcast all the way through for each 4hr40min session.

Whatever it takes

I did something similar in college. These guys are pros, I dont see why 4-5h seems so ridiculous.

Hey guys, just waiting on an MRI to diagnose what I’m pretty sure is a sacral stress fracture. I’ve been cross training 2 h a day, 2x1h on stationary bike for the past fortnight. (I normally do doubles of 2x1h). I do the bike at the same heart rate at my normal runs. Any downside to upping the hours to align with what filip is doing if I’m not used to doing that volume of aerobic work? I could find 4 hours if that’s what’s needed to keep the fitness and not make me want to give up the sport (yes this is a cry for help lol)

"such as" 4/5 hours of aqua jogging isn't plausible.50 mins and I've had enough. I then spend the rest of the night peeing for some old man's reason.

Most pools are coming under 80 degrees F, unless you’re doing a strong work out for the 4-5 hrs, you can’t maintain the body temp. I also don’t know about his skin, but that much time in a chemically treated pool is harsh. I use a pre swim barrier cream and that’s only good for about 1.5 hours, then takes a few days for my skin to recover.

Help Me wrote:

Hey guys, just waiting on an MRI to diagnose what I’m pretty sure is a sacral stress fracture. I’ve been cross training 2 h a day, 2x1h on stationary bike for the past fortnight. (I normally do doubles of 2x1h). I do the bike at the same heart rate at my normal runs. Any downside to upping the hours to align with what filip is doing if I’m not used to doing that volume of aerobic work? I could find 4 hours if that’s what’s needed to keep the fitness and not make me want to give up the sport (yes this is a cry for help lol)

How did you get the sacral stress fracture? Do you do strength work? One of the biggest mistakes I made with an injury in college was overcompensating on the cardio, but didn't do any strength. When I was ready to run again, my heart and lungs were way ahead of my legs, so easy to overdo it and get re-injured.

As for trying to match 4-5 hours of cross training? No, just no. Unless (maybe) you are getting paid full-time to do it. If you're getting stress fractures, you need to *recover.*