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Law 5: Alternate Hard and Easy Training

September 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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This was not one of Newton’s laws but has been introduced by Noakes. There is the temptation just to pile on the mileage and that fitness will increase as mileage does. Even those runners with perfect running form who are remarkably resilient to injury will find that there diminishing returns with this approach. The point at which this occurs will be different for each runner but it is safe the say that once past a certain point, each additional mile run will not accrue the same fitness benefits. By alternating hard and easy training, it is possible to keep pushing fitness limits during the hard sessions. The danger with this law though is in the interpretation. There is a tendency to interpret it as 1 hard day, 1 easy day and so on ad … [Read more...]

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Law 4: Don’t Set Your Daily Training Schedule In Stone

September 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
marathon training, running coaching

Don’t set yourself a daily schedule; it is far more sensible to run a weekly one, because you can’t tell what the temperature, the weather or your own condition will be on any given day. You don’t know what the weather will be like on race day. You don’t know how you’ll feel. You don’t know what the temperature will do. If every time you encounter anything inclement, you fail to train then you are depriving yourself of many opportunities to develop mental and physical toughness. There are some runners I know (and I had a tendency towards this too!!) who will grab any excuse to postpone a training session. This is a charter for doing so!! However, there is also a sensible side to the law. There are runners I know who become so … [Read more...]

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Law 3: Train First For Distance Only Later For Speed

September 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
marathon training, running coaching

If you are going to contest a 26-mile event, you must at least be used to 100 miles a week...As it is always the speed, never the distance, that kills, so is it the distance not the speed that has to be acquired. In the early days of training, you must endeavour only to manage as great a distance on each practice outing as you can cover without being abnormally tired..Your aim throughout should be to avoid all maximum effort while you work wit one purpose only and that is to achieve a definite and sustained rise in average speed at which you practice, for that is the secret of ultimate achievement....You must never, except for short temporary bursts, practice at racing speed. Newton’s ideas in this law are very close to the hugely … [Read more...]

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Law 2: Start Gradually and Train Gently

August 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Nearly all of us dash into it hoping for and expecting results which are quite unwarranted. Nature is unable to make a really first class job of anything if she is hustled. To enhance our best, we need only, and should only, enhance our average. That is the basis we ought to work on, for it succeeds every time when the other fails. So, in running, it is essential to take to it kindly. Many beginning runners experience their first injury fairly on in their running career. Often, after successfully completing their first race and full of enthusiasm, they increase their training realising that more miles equals better racing and end up at the physio’s. For most untrained people, the cardio vascular system will adapt to a training stress far … [Read more...]

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Law 1: Train Frequently, All Year Round

August 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment

First practice your event as often as possible, paying less attention to other activities. If you want to be a good athlete, you must train all the year round, no matter what. What is really required is a little exercise constantly; this will benefit you permanently to a far greater degree than single heavy doses at long intervals. This advice appears sound and fits in well with the Train Smart philosophy. Let’s break it down: practise your event as often as possible. A major component of all Train Smart plans is training at race pace to prepare the body for what will be demanded of it on race day. You must train all the year round, no matter what Although this is a sound idea, there needs to be more clarity. Most international … [Read more...]

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