Training

These articles cover the principles of training as well as specific workouts.

• Golden Rule of Training
• Supercompensation Why exercise does not make you fit
• How Often To Run Less can be more
• Overtraining
  • Overtraining Syndrome and Training Monotony
• Individuality and the Experiment of One Everyone is different
• Downhill Running Why uphills are easy and downhills are important
• Introduction to Workout Types
  • Endurance Adaptations What happens when you do endurance training
  • Warmup and Cooldown
  • The Long Run for Marathon and Ultramarathon races
    • The Science of the Long Run
  • Introduction to Interval Training and Safe Speedwork
    • Practical Interval Training
    • Practical Aerobic Intervals and Aerobic Interval Training 101
    • High Intensity Interval Training and Tabata
    • Medium Intensity High Volume Intervals
    • Downhill Intervals and Downhill Running Speedwork that builds endurance
    • Broken 5K My favorite speedwork
    • Yasso 800s
  • Recovery Runs and Toxic Miles
  • Fartlek
• Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness and HMB for runners
• Heat Acclimation Training - especially important for spring races
• Stretching
• Weight Loss and Performance