Much has been discussed on this topic but i wanted to revisit it after watching the track & field championships and remembering debates about how much pool training time swimmers put in relative to a runner competing in the equivalent event (a 400m runner to 100m swimmer).
What got my attention on this again was a recent article in Men's Fitness about Jeremy Wariner, specifically his training week during mid-season:
M= 200's: 8 x 200's two minutes followed by 40 yd sprints w/20 seconds rest
T= 350m: 2 x 350's followed by 1 x 300, one minute rest then a 100m to simulate the end of the race
W= 450m: 2 x 450's each under 1:00 with 9 minutes rest between each
Th= 90m: Recovery day each run in an "X" pattern
F= 100m: last run of the week is multiple 100m sprints
That's an insanely lower amount of training time than even i put in....Ande & Jazz come to mind.
More of this in an excellent article:
"Elite coaching special - Clyde Hart coach to Michael Johnson and Jeremy Wariner"
Here's are a couple of excerpt:
Clyde believes the principles of training are the same for many events: "I trained Michael Johnson like I trained a four minute miler. A four minute miler was doing a lot of the same things Michael Johnson was - a lot of the same things in training but more of them.
"The longest workout we have ever done - not counting warm up and warm down - would be under 20min, I think we have never worked more than 20min. That's not counting the Fall phase.”
So here's my challenge...I'm going to pick one of the next seasons (either SCM this fall or SCY in the spring) and try and adapt to this regime...anyone else game?
Rob, not sure if you "strayed" from the point of the article...but I'm asking because of your background and think you have a better understanding of this than myself and other "non-runners".
What I take from the coaches training philosophy is that its quality regardless of the distance. If you just took Wariners weekly workouts for a 400 and increased by a relative factor of 4 then does that make sense for a 1500m runner AND a 200-500 swimmer?
I'm guessing if you looked at a miler's workout it would be much more than 4x the yardage of Wariner's. I think remember reading one of Bernard Lagat's workouts was 20 x 300's all at 38 sec or under. Don't remember the rest. Distance guys might do 10-15 miles a day. I think swimmers are much more aligned in their yardage, intensity and sets than runners.
Rob, not sure if you "strayed" from the point of the article...but I'm asking because of your background and think you have a better understanding of this than myself and other "non-runners".
What I take from the coaches training philosophy is that its quality regardless of the distance. If you just took Wariners weekly workouts for a 400 and increased by a relative factor of 4 then does that make sense for a 1500m runner AND a 200-500 swimmer?
I'm guessing if you looked at a miler's workout it would be much more than 4x the yardage of Wariner's. I think remember reading one of Bernard Lagat's workouts was 20 x 300's all at 38 sec or under. Don't remember the rest. Distance guys might do 10-15 miles a day. I think swimmers are much more aligned in their yardage, intensity and sets than runners.
