How does Eliud Kipchoge not get injured?

Eliud wrote:

From what I read on sweatelite and some videos i watched, Eliud Kipchoge eats very little, does not stretch and does minimal amounts of strength training. I have read Eliud only eats two pieces of bread and a cup of tea after a workout, that cant be enough to recover completely right?

There's videos of him eating big bowls of that oatmeal looking stuff. But otherwise I have wondered much of the same as you.

Maybe flexibility and post workout protein aren't as important as you've be led to believe.

I would trust everything you read in sweatelite either

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=9406499

Certain illegal substances help a lot towards preventing injuries.

Blood doping, epo, testosterone are all great at preventing injury.

He doesn't overthink things.

He runs hard, and recovers easy.

From the videos it looked like they just finished up a fairly large block of "strength training" consisting of step aerobics and weight machines. Maybe 2-3 hours of step aerobics a day keeps the feet and tendons strong to handle the upcoming workload. I know I personally will be incorporating it.

No but on a more serious note I'm also wondering how he stays so insanely consistent and not injured.

A huge part of his natural talent is robustness. This is what enables him to put in consistent training and optimize his fitness. It's a big part of why we know who he is.

Also, I think your information is flawed:

From the videos I've watched, it seems like he takes his athletic massages seriously. And I get the impression that part of his disciplined mentality is to consistently take care of the small stuff . He also takes post-race vacations to let his body and mind recuperate. And years or running helps prevent certain types of injury.

PS: Since he's not skin and bones (relative to others in the sport), he's clearly eating more than two slices of bread to recover from his training.

What you have read is clearly garbage. Do you have Youtube? Videos of him eating and stretching are several. Let me know if you want links.

WAKEUP wrote:

Blood doping, epo, testosterone are all great at preventing injury.

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WAKEUP wrote:

Blood doping, epo, testosterone are all great at preventing injury.

HGH is supposed to help a lot.

The synthetic HGH came out in 1985. Before then injuries were common among the top runners, after that you suddenly had Africans who could go on until their mid thirties without getting injured.

Coevett wrote:

WAKEUP wrote:

Blood doping, epo, testosterone are all great at preventing injury.

HGH is supposed to help a lot.

The synthetic HGH came out in 1985. Before then injuries were common among the top runners, after that you suddenly had Africans who could go on until their mid thirties without getting injured.

Africans were capable of that before 1985. See Yifter in Moscow. Also Carlos Lopes was the best runner in the World in '85. He was not African.

You make a poor argument Africans were capable of that before 1985. See Yifter in Moscow. Also Carlos Lopes was the best runner in the World in '85. He was not African.

Eh? Yifter the obvious blood doper competing for Ethiopia under a communist dictatorship in Moscow?

Aouita was the best runner in 1985 and that was the year he went on a three year winning run after his loss to Cram in Nice.

There was NO Bekele, Haille, Kiochige, El G before 85. Guys like Rono and Keino broke down like the rest. Yifter was not a consistent performer.

Eliud wrote:

From what I read on sweatelite and some videos i watched, Eliud Kipchoge eats very little, does not stretch and does minimal amounts of strength training. I have read Eliud only eats two pieces of bread and a cup of tea after a workout, that cant be enough to recover completely right?

We live a country that it's all about making money and more money and then some. Thus, you are bombarded with ads of GNC, power bars and protein this and that and carbs here and there. The human body evolved to survive on very little food and perform endurance events daily. Don't let those carbs and protein powders rob you of your Darwinian past. It's all marketing. Evolution is not wrong.

Bask in the glory of evolution. wrote:

Eliud wrote:

From what I read on sweatelite and some videos i watched, Eliud Kipchoge eats very little, does not stretch and does minimal amounts of strength training. I have read Eliud only eats two pieces of bread and a cup of tea after a workout, that cant be enough to recover completely right?

We live a country that it's all about making money and more money and then some. Thus, you are bombarded with ads of GNC, power bars and protein this and that and carbs here and there. The human body evolved to survive on very little food and perform endurance events daily. Don't let those carbs and protein powders rob you of your Darwinian past. It's all marketing. Evolution is not wrong.

About right, the human body can preform quite well on a fasted state(think about when we were in nature, when we hunted it was on a fasted state). Earlier this week I woke up and just on water biked 12 miles to run a hour and a half on a hilly technical trail and biked back. According to my Garmin I burn 1800 calories combined biking and running. I did not consume any gels or special drinks, just water. I felt as fresh at the end as I did at the beginning. Runners don't need any special diet, they just need to make sure they eat enough.

Obviously he eats like a marathon runner and not two slices of bread and a cup of tea- that’s total nonsense. There are plenty of videos of him stretching. What is suspicious is that he is the only Marathon runner in history that has been so consistent and injury free, and that includes runners that train with him who have been injured and or inconsistent like Abel Kirui, Immanuel Mutai, Kamworor. All Marathon runners in history are ones that one two to three major races and then started to fall apart, or if they lasted more years they had ups and down and sometimes DNFs like Geb. No one ever has been like Kipchoge, and that is very suspicious

Coevett wrote:

You make a poor argument Africans were capable of that before 1985. See Yifter in Moscow. Also Carlos Lopes was the best runner in the World in '85. He was not African.

Eh? Yifter the obvious blood doper competing for Ethiopia under a communist dictatorship in Moscow?

Aouita was the best runner in 1985 and that was the year he went on a three year winning run after his loss to Cram in Nice.

There was NO Bekele, Haille, Kiochige, El G before 85. Guys like Rono and Keino broke down like the rest. Yifter was not a consistent performer.

Lopes was still better.

Keino was 32 in Munich and retired healthy.

Rono broke down only his liver.

Bekele and Haile both broke down. El G retired at 29.

It's obviously the shoes.

Probably one of the most under looked things as far as injury prevention is listening to your body. Too often runners aren't feeling right or they just feel off, but because their schedule says to do x, they are going do x. When they should just take it easy. Another thing for me is to not be so dogmatic about mileage, if I feel good, I'll run a lot, if not I won't run a lot. Thinking back to periods of my running where I was injured a lot, I planned out my mileage weeks in advanced. Now I take it week by week, day by day, run by run. And lastly, eat. Thinking back to periods of my running when I was injured a lot, I was real dogmatic about only eating "healthy" foods. Now I'm not, I just eat.