Thanks! That's great stuff. I recently took 8 days off, for I felt I was running out of power. So I took these days to eat well and take some vitamins. I came back more motivated. Refreshed.
Great instructional video. I'm 64 and started jogging 5 months ago. I've done 2 5K's and 2 10K 's spaced out. My courses have hills in most of them. Mentally I'm fine. However, I've had some level of sore muscles this whole time. I fully rest on Friday and Sunday and run 5 days. I'm in the 2nd week of a 12 week half marathon cycle. This week I'll be running 18 miles and gradually working up. Hmmmmm. Any advice?
Wow.. TH-cam must have read my mind. After back-2-back HM and FM PBs and 2nd dose AZ vaccine on Monday, I'm totally spent. Just came back from an easy 10k DNF and this is already the 4th attempt trying to run more than 10k. Yes, I will rest.
I am taking 10 days off now after quite intense 6 month training period, I set up a reminder that says "Rest, you idiot! Seriously feel your legs!" just cause I wasn't ignoring my fatique! 7th day in, feeling like I want to run, for the first few days my fatique was horrible!
I cut down my mileage a bit because a typhoon is landing at my city..It's impossible to do speedwork with torrential rain and wind that can blow me away.
If I take 5 days thru 2 weeks off, wouldn’t I lose my speed or endurance I built up during hard training? I just don’t want to lose any progress from running.
You will temporarily loose it, and gain it back. It will however improve your base speed and endurance. More importantly, your confidence. I just suggest you listen to your body, unless you have a race planned ahead.
The longer you train, the more you realize you can't hold peak fitness perpetually. Significant, long-term improvement requires purposeful, temporary regression. The fitness will come back quickly from a break, but overtraining -- whether in length of time or intensity -- can really put you in a hole. Periodic long breaks are very important, but I'm actually a big believer in taking a day off a week, which just gets you ready to hit the miles again each week after a short break.
Time off helps, but it's not the reset button many would hope for. There are many people out there who say "running is my therapy" and those are often the ones most in need of actual therapy.
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I just woke up from this. You have spoken all about me. And you didn't know it thanks
Excellent video. It reminds me that we are not professionals, and we need to recover hard. Thank you for your efforts 👌
Thanks! That's great stuff. I recently took 8 days off, for I felt I was running out of power. So I took these days to eat well and take some vitamins. I came back more motivated. Refreshed.
Great advice!
Great instructional video. I'm 64 and started jogging 5 months ago. I've done 2 5K's and 2 10K 's spaced out. My courses have hills in most of them. Mentally I'm fine. However, I've had some level of sore muscles this whole time. I fully rest on Friday and Sunday and run 5 days. I'm in the 2nd week of a 12 week half marathon cycle. This week I'll be running 18 miles and gradually working up. Hmmmmm. Any advice?
Thank you sir great advice
Very very good information!
Wow.. TH-cam must have read my mind. After back-2-back HM and FM PBs and 2nd dose AZ vaccine on Monday, I'm totally spent. Just came back from an easy 10k DNF and this is already the 4th attempt trying to run more than 10k. Yes, I will rest.
I am taking 10 days off now after quite intense 6 month training period, I set up a reminder that says "Rest, you idiot! Seriously feel your legs!" just cause I wasn't ignoring my fatique! 7th day in, feeling like I want to run, for the first few days my fatique was horrible!
Great video!
I cut down my mileage a bit because a typhoon is landing at my city..It's impossible to do speedwork with torrential rain and wind that can blow me away.
Stay safe!
Just run in your house
If I take 5 days thru 2 weeks off, wouldn’t I lose my speed or endurance I built up during hard training? I just don’t want to lose any progress from running.
You will temporarily loose it, and gain it back. It will however improve your base speed and endurance. More importantly, your confidence. I just suggest you listen to your body, unless you have a race planned ahead.
The longer you train, the more you realize you can't hold peak fitness perpetually. Significant, long-term improvement requires purposeful, temporary regression. The fitness will come back quickly from a break, but overtraining -- whether in length of time or intensity -- can really put you in a hole. Periodic long breaks are very important, but I'm actually a big believer in taking a day off a week, which just gets you ready to hit the miles again each week after a short break.
It takes about a week for speed benefits to *start* to decline and about two weeks for endurance gains to *start* to decline. It's ok.
excellent topic..time off running and periodization.
Time off helps, but it's not the reset button many would hope for. There are many people out there who say "running is my therapy" and those are often the ones most in need of actual therapy.
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lol how about you tell us at which point :D
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Your argument would be more persuasive if you supported it with evidence from scientific studies.