9 Workouts That Saved My Running Life
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- It's as simple as this, these 9 workouts have made the biggest impact on my running over the years and I want to share them with you. Below are the links to the more in-depth videos on each session
KM Repeats - • This Session Should be...
Descending Efforts - • An interval session to...
30/20/10's - • 30 minute interval ses...
Pace Pyramid - • 5K Pace Pyramid - 1 Ho...
Tempo Over/Unders - • My new favourite Tempo...
Mona Fartlek - • An interval session fo...
Hill Repeats - • 1 hour 'Hill Reps' ses...
Trail Runs - • The Big Problem With R...
Long Runs - • Most Runners JUST do a...
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I do a music fartlek with some head phones. During the verses, I go easy, during the choruses I up the effort.
That’s so fun! Going to try it.
That's a genius idea!!
I do this too! lots of fun
I do this as well 😎🤘
Sounds good but more intervals than fartlek.
1 Repeats 400 & 1km
2 Descending efforts 800->200
3 30/20/10 easy/tempo/race ×5×2
4 Pyramids
5 Tempo
6 Fartlek
7 Hill Repeats
8 Trails Gentle pace
9 Long run with Hotspots
The contents of this channel are hands down the best for recreational runners like myself . 🙏🏽
I will definitely be coming back to this one again and again
Great content as always Ben I think I can speak for everyone when I say we appreciate all the time and effort you put into the videos, it has helped me alot as being a new runner. Thank you Ben and Mary!!
So useful - so glad I found this. You've just demystified a whole load of stuff I've heard of but never understood. Lots of things to play with, woo hoo!
I definitely want to put in a few over and unders into my training this year to get a better half marathon time. Even if it’s just as a way to break up a long run. 🎉
Thanks for the inspiration to spice up my marathon training!
Thanks Candice! Hope it helps 😊
Love love love The Brutaliser (though on my watch I call it The Beast).
I also do the 30-20-10 interval regularly, when I don't have a lot of time.
Thanks so much! Looking forward to trying some of these out really soon! : )
This is awesome, thanks Ben and Mary!
Thanks, great suggestions for a marathoner looking to add speed, cheers!
I love the playfulness of Fartlek, it feels like giving yourself lots of mini challenges and is so different to the rigidness of intervals
yeah i like fartleks and strides since i'm not so agonized about hitting a certain rep at a certain pace and can just have fun running fast, but there is also definitely something to be learned from doing a bunch of hard reps and trying to hit the same pace or faster throughout.
Happy new year guys!!! Perfect timing with this video for me!! Starting your 12 week HM training plan on 23rd for my first half-I know I have 20, 30 & 40 min interval sessions a little into the plan, so this will help me out heaps!!! The hill sesh that u did a whole video about I’ve come to really love!!!!
great video, lots of great information and ideas. thanks a lot. will be referring back to this video to try some of these out.
My favourite sessions are threshold workouts 10-12k broken down or mona fartlek. Helped me run 34:49 10k this morning 👍
I too am loving tempo and threshold workouts a lot these days. I cannot do easy runs by themselves, I have to add in some strides or something to get my restless legs going a bit. That's an awesome time; I'm trying to break 20min 5k this year and 40min 10k next year some time...never been a runner, just started not even 6 months ago at the age of 37. But, I'm already down to 21:40 in the 5k, so it feels like it's still a reasonable goal.
I did 30/20/10s modified today.
I run on the way to work. Don't have a watch to do all the timings so I just do it to paces.
100 steps walking 100 steps slow jog, 50 steps medium jog 25 steps my best sprinting. Made sure to concetrate on breathing and technique (kept pulling the arms back even when walking). Did it all the way to work. The last sprints were exhausting.
Worth doing as I equaled my pb for that distance which was only slow jog and walking before (with more slow jog than walking). Hopefully will see improvements if I do it over the other days of the week. Will see how my muscles respond to recovery.
Thank you….always entertained👍
Such a great summary video!!
The Hill Repeats are so good, outside or on the treadmill!! But the Brutalizer...I've done it, well I lasted 75% of it. It'll be back in my training in a few months...be prepared for a great love/hate relationship with it. Happy New Year Ben & Mary, thank for all you do!!!
Nice to hear from a treadmill runner. I bought myself a commercial treadmill in August 2021 and this has dramatically improved my running. One of the best investments I've ever made. I especially love it for doing easy-pace runs. I'd find when doing these runs I'd either go out too fast or I'd speed up during the run. With a treadmill, I can dial in my easy pace, set and forget, knowing I'm finishing at the same pace I started and all else in between. But I've now also incorporated an incline strides session after every easy-pace run. Just 6x 200m strides at 4% incline (14kph). It's also great for doing progressive runs as well. But the best thing is if the weather is sh!tty outside, there's no more stress. You can still get in a good session without having to battle the elements.
I’m very excited to start using these! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Ben. Great video. A reminder to get back doing some of these sessions that I got from you guys before. Happy new year to you & mary
800x600x400x200 is amazing ... we do this x5 rounfs with usually a 3km warm up and down and
Awesome video….. thank you! Extremely helpful! Love y’all’s videos! Happy running 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️❤️
Thanks! I used to do well with pace running on a course with relatively few ups and downs, but now that I am also running in the winter and limited to areas sufficient cleared of snow in Montreal, I am stuck to some very rolling terrain and find it hard to work with paces. I hope to try some of your workouts when the snow is gone and pace running becomes easier
Really like the Brutalizer! I do intervals but this idea of making them shorter and faster as you go make sense to me. Going to add that to my schedule for sure. Thanks for this great video. Really great ideas here.
Thank you 👍
Best thing I’ve learned so far is to ditch measuring distance altogether when training. Focus only on heart rate and time as metrics.
Great video, really enjoyed the educational perspective on training.
Hey Ben, thanks for sharing these workouts that have made such a positive impact on your running. I just watched your video and appreciate the time and effort you put into creating it. Keep up the great work!
Brilliant 👏 that second workout is evil, I can vouch for it being the “brutaliser” 😂
Ha ha once you do it, you never forget… even if you want to 😂
Great video. These workouts are terrific.
This is so helpful, thanks Ben!
Number two has to be my favourite session but a killer 😁 saved in the watch as messy intervals 😂 great video Ben 👍 very helpful
I like the thumbnail!
9 great sessions thx
Thanks so much 😊
Happy new year!!
Happy New Year! 😊
Great video man. You won my subscription fairly :)
Ha ha awesome and thank you! I’ll take that 😊🤟🏼
@@ThisMessyHappy Thank you for your great running content here. keep doing what you are doing
Great content as always love this channel. Years ago when we done track work similar to this we used to run both ways round so wasn't putting to much strain on one side don't know if it worked
Great video as always. I'm going to be in Thailand for the next couple of months and want to do a 33km run to celebrate my 33rd birthday. Any recommendations on a route/path I can centre the run around in Bangkok?
Good advice.
I love these workouts. They're all no nonsense and easy to adapt. What sort of gradient are you running the hill reps on? I live in place that is flat, but surrounded by mountains. I struggle with the idea that my hills may be too steep for this kind of session to be beneficial.
Good sessions for sure, but really need this summarised in a PDF and linked to. Hard to consume at ease across a video.
Cheers Pete. There are individual videos for each of the workouts that take a bit more time to explain it and in more detail. In the description 😊
I like that you mentioned not max effort. I get to feeling guilty like I need 100 sprint effort to get more speed and for someone really fit they may be able to recover from that eventually. It seems like avoiding that super over exertion and stopping when you feel the exhaustion phase coming yields a much better result in the long progression of lowering race times.
Good advise. Thank you
3:00 mark 'Bob is your uncle'??
Did I hear that right? 🙂
Nice video, need to try some of these. My question.... How often do you trip over your dog 😝
Ha ha there have been occasions for sure but she’s quite a smart cookie so knows to get out of our way 😂 thanks 😊
Love it! Are you guys out there long term or fixed term?
Not sure yet, Gary! We shall see 😊
Great content this will help me going into the new year! One question 🙋♀️ how do you guys now train for hilly races with Bangkok so flat? I’ve watched you both run the ultras up hills
Thanks Natalie. The short answer is, we struggle! 😂 but we bought a treadmill and get to hills as much as possible but it’s tricky 😩
Great video Ben. Question: How to find you on Strava? Please share the link to your profile. Thanks
there has to be something since every time I have some doubts you come out with the perfect video!!
I'm following your ultimate marathon plan to train first for the 10k for the first time in my life and then for a half-marathon. I tried so many times to do that and never had any success for lack of consistency and guide, thanks a lot for making me having a lot of improvements within the weeks of training!
what you suggest to set as starting pace to then move upper and lower for these sessions if I start from an "ok" pace of 5:30 to 5:40/km for now? I'm struggling to get faster but I dunno if I'm pushing in the right direction in terms of trainings to speed up.
Happy new year to you both ,did you enjoy kho chang ? We stayed at white sands beach ⛱️
I'm starting to get into long distance running, at early stages but being in shape I can easily run 5k, just wondering what you think about jump rope for long distance running ? I've being doing it years.
I'm really struggling right now. I injured my shoulder a couple of months ago now and it triggers some massive inflammation in my ribs. As a result I haven't been able to run without triggering pain in my shoulder and ribs. I'd like to get back to my routine. Not being able to run has left me feeling awful both mentally and phsycally. How do people get back into it after injury?
8:53 I suppose you ran a pb after seeing that thing?!? Was that a monitor lizard?🤯
Are there any non running workouts that can help your runs? Like any sort of strength training or using a rower or elliptical?
Bro i really hate how his hand be when he’s running it’s sooo annoying maaaan
My god he’s so annoying isn’t he! 😂