Posts by stevemagness
The Fallacy of Vo2max and %VO2max
In a comprehensive review on training, Midgley and McNaughton’s first sentence state’s “The maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) has been suggested to be the single most important physiological capacity in determining endurance running performance” (2006). Based on this notion, training for distance runners has become fixated on the concept of VO2max. Training to enhance VO2max…
Read MoreCan we get some common sense somewhere?
A brief intermission between my HS training review for a rant. Rant time: You want the secret to success in the training world? Use big words, preferably big combination of words. And if you really want to be a master of training, use a big combination of scientific sounding words. It AMAZES me of some…
Read MoreHS national Championships-Ryan gets 12th.
The HS season has concluded and as promised I’m posting the workouts done by the HS kids. Below you’ll find a link to the workouts done from July to December. Easy runs/long runs and mileage aren’t included, just the main workouts. Enjoy. Feel free to ask questions, leave a critique, whatever. Over the next couple…
Read MoreAerobic Training is NOT the devil and the fallacy of muscle fiber type conversions
It’s time for another rant: First, watch Mike Boyle’s video in which he says Aerobic base training is useless: http://www.functionalstrengthcoach3.com/intervals.html The problem with this guy’s view: VO2max is NOT the measure for aerobic performance or capacity. I’ll post later on why his reasoning for intervals improving VO2max is faulty. I’ve got a whole paper on…
Read MoreThanksgiving race, off to Portland, and should we trust Pro coaches just because they’re pro’s?
This will be a kind of update post on everything. HS runners: It was a crazy end of the season. At state, as a team they got 2nd which was a nice improvement. Coming in, getting 3rd was pretty much what we’d expected so moving up one place, the best placing in school history, was…
Read MoreAntioxidants=Overated
I’ve been wanting to write something about this for a while but haven’t quiet had the time. It’s a topic I want to delve into more completely, but for now this short review will have to do. Antioxidants are everywhere. They are being portrayed almost as a super cure. Are they good things? Yes. But…
Read MoreEvidence for Doubling, training in glycogen depleted state
One of the topics that has generated a large amount of response on this blog has been on the debate over singles versus doubles. I thought I’d share some of the current research that may explain why doubles provide a benefit. Some researchers have suggested that training in a fatigued state may enhance subsequent adaptations.…
Read MoreResearch on Individual response to training
A big theme of my training/this blog is individuality. It’s central to training a successful runner. The problem is that it is hard to do. It takes work to actually individualize something. It’s much easier to give a cookie cutter approach. If you know anything about research and studies is that most of the time…
Read MoreIs 9mi once better than 4.5mi twice? Maybe not.
Singles vs. Doubles: Part 1- Introduction Part 2- Evidence for doubling: training in glycogen depleted state Part 3-Revisiting Single vs. Doubles: Evidence from Dathan Ritzenhein I’ve been dabbling around with this idea in my head for quiet some time. I’ve even mentioned it on this blog before. The question is how long should easy days…
Read MoreStrength Endurance Circuit Video
I’m posting a strength endurance circuit of the HS guys that they did in the tail end of this past summer. The idea behind this kind of circuit is strength endurance development obviously. What we are trying to do in basic terms is to force fiber recruitment and extend the endurance of those fibers. The…
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