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232. What Workouts To Get Faster: Examples & How To Calculate Them
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Workouts are a very important part of reaching your potential as a runner. We talk a lot about the benefits of easy running but sometimes we neglect to talk about the importance of not only running hard workouts but the importance of WHAT workouts you do. If you are training for a marathon, you don’t want to be spending a ton of time doing sprinting anaerobic workouts. Training the right systems for your goals is important. It is equally as important to make sure you are training at the appropriate paces for your current fitness levels so that you are stressing the correct systems to improve!
How much mileage per week should be running workouts
10-20% (for 40 miles a week that is 4-8 miles per week)
Workout days should always have warm up and cool down miles
4-8 miles of hard work can be split up into 2 runs with 2-2 mile warm up at cool downs
Your workout days may be 8 miles in total but only contain 3-4 miles of hard running in them
How do you know what paces you should be running
Test fitness with a 5k
VDOT calculator
Make adjustments based on training conditions/wind/heat/hills/etc!
Effort based can work but we don’t want to go 100% based off that in the beginning when we are learning
What type of workouts are best for the marathon/half marathon
Longer tempos
Steady states
MP tempos as race approaches
Threshold work
Medium long run
Cut down/progression runs
What type of workouts are best for the 5k/10k
Threshold workouts
Speed workouts
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Workouts are a very important part of reaching your potential as a runner. We talk a lot about the benefits of easy running but sometimes we neglect to talk about the importance of not only running hard workouts but the importance of WHAT workouts you do. If you are training for a marathon, you don’t want to be spending a ton of time doing sprinting anaerobic workouts. Training the right systems for your goals is important. It is equally as important to make sure you are training at the appropriate paces for your current fitness levels so that you are stressing the correct systems to improve!
How much mileage per week should be running workouts
10-20% (for 40 miles a week that is 4-8 miles per week)
Workout days should always have warm up and cool down miles
4-8 miles of hard work can be split up into 2 runs with 2-2 mile warm up at cool downs
Your workout days may be 8 miles in total but only contain 3-4 miles of hard running in them
How do you know what paces you should be running
Test fitness with a 5k
VDOT calculator
Make adjustments based on training conditions/wind/heat/hills/etc!
Effort based can work but we don’t want to go 100% based off that in the beginning when we are learning
What type of workouts are best for the marathon/half marathon
Longer tempos
Steady states
MP tempos as race approaches
Threshold work
Medium long run
Cut down/progression runs
What type of workouts are best for the 5k/10k
Threshold workouts
Speed workouts
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