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Subject: Intensity in IM training -- when and how hard?

Hi everyone, I am just about at my wit's end trying to figure out how to build intensity into my IM plan. I know there are lots of individual differences, but it seems like there are serious coaches advising all sorts of things: Friel and Byrn in Going Long emphasize muscular endurance (zone 3), Fink in BIF calls for only zone 4 and says zone 3 produces too much fatigue with not enough benefits, and Dave Scott and at least one peer reviewed study say above-LT/FT is where you get the real gains, but of course injury potential there is pretty scary, especially combined with high volume, and it's so un-race-specific. What do we really know about intensity in IM training?

I'm also wondering about when to schedule intensity (which training blocks) and balancing intensity vs. volume. I plan to increase volume until 7 weeks out, then a 4 week build period with less volume and more intensity, but I'm not totally sold on that approach. This is my second IM season; my last one I did basically BIF with no intensity except hills, so I was building volume until 3 weeks out, and that worked quite well. Of course now I'm trying to push the speed where in my first I was mostly just happy to get through it.

 



2015-03-18 9:49 PM
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Basically, farther out from the race you'll be working more on general aerobic fitness. And that will be including the higher intensity work. Build up your aerobic system strong across the board. As the race gets closer the work that is more specific to the race will grow more while the less specific can be done less often. In the later stages of the build you're trying to make a strong push for what's needed for that particular race off of a strong base.

2015-03-23 1:29 PM
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Subject: RE: Intensity in IM training -- when and how hard?

Originally posted by brigby1

Basically, farther out from the race you'll be working more on general aerobic fitness. And that will be including the higher intensity work. Build up your aerobic system strong across the board. As the race gets closer the work that is more specific to the race will grow more while the less specific can be done less often. In the later stages of the build you're trying to make a strong push for what's needed for that particular race off of a strong base.

This pretty much sums it up. 

 

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