Lactate Threshold Training

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@kitkat1

So if you race a lot, then tone down the sessions. Go with a 200 + 200 for example in the style of a strength & control session - the first 200 at the speed of the backend of your goal 400m race which, for a 50sec 400 would mean your opening 200 of the set would be inaround 26sec. Then you take your 2mins and you back it up in another 26 or whatever you can manage while maintaining form and avoiding too much tension.

I always tried to get “my” athletes to take “the physical” out of every run (especially races). By that I mean not trying to “muscle” the run. The more you try to use your strength, sometimes the less you have of it to use.

As has been said early in this thread, it is a paradox. You spend all year trying to build the threads of performance, but then if you try too hard to use them they desert you.

So you need to let everything come to you through rhythm.

I think that was the biggest lesson we all learned from watching Carl Lewis hold his nerve during his races. And of course we saw the same capacity in Tommie Smith.

These guys didn’t “push” - they didn’t grasp for something that wasn’t there. They just let it come out without forcing it.

That’s how I tried to get athletes to run their training sets because that’s ultimately how I wanted them to race.

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be”. -Bruce Lee-