Old Working Athletes

[RB34]

I understand what you saying John, I mention earlier when my speed and weight intensity/volume is high; tempo is very hard for me vs when I am inseason maint. As a athlete I have always struggle with conditioning work even going back to peewee football. Also like I mention earlier that spec end work and 200m races does more for my conditioning then any tempo workout. BTW, I could probably do those tempo sessions but I’m sure something else would suffer.

@John

I was simply quoting not necessarily saying do that. Like you At my age, I want training to be fun and not painful. but IMHO if someone isn’t injured and can’t physically hack 2 x 2000m at < 75% then they need to ask questions as to why, maybe the other days are too high? Or maybe they simply need to suck it up and commit to tempo for 8 weeks.

Daily therapy doesn’t have to be massage.

That said conditioning doesn’t have to be running, personally I use my indoor rower a fair bit and there is a bike tempo download and
pool work is discussed. I know some people like weights circuits however personally I don’t and think combined with HI track followed by weights is too much, but hey that is me and my performance sucks so maybe I’m just full piss and wind…wouldn’t be the first and won’t be the last time