![]() I might face an uprising if I tried to take away that day off! If I needed to put in extra work, I would prefer to do more in the six-day period and keep the recovery day rather than losing the day off.Īndy Young with Laura Muir (Mark Shearman) Recovery is something that I’ve always taken quite seriously. Also, if you’ve got any niggles or muscular issues then giving the body a day off gives it a chance to recover. We train hard and we train intensely for six days and, having challenged the body that much, it’s important to give it time to recover. I always give my athletes one rest day per week. We haven’t worked on creating a lot of bulk but what you do see are well-toned athletes. If you look at Jemma and Laura you can see that they’ve got strong, toned body types and that’s from week in, week out doing the strength training. It’s always been a key element of the programme. The session would be some kind of strength work, basically circuits, once a week throughout the year and we don’t necessarily shut it down in the track season. I have put weights in for the first time. I tend to take the approach that everything is done slightly faster without a massive mileage.įor most of her career, Laura has done one gym session a week but I’ve recently put a second one in. You can’t say it has to be this, that or the other. If you approach it from the true distance side – having speed endurance and some speed – it’s going to help, while having endurance is still an important element of taking the approach of the faster but shorter mileage, especially as you get older. While those are quite different approaches in terms of total mileage, they both go back to the key elements. I’ve seen both move towards similar results in the end. ![]() One way is to approach it from a slower, endurance-based format with more volume, while the other way is more speed-based – faster but lower volume. Laura Muir wins in Monaco (Diamond League AG) For elite runners it’s a real challenge to find the balance which allows you to glide over the ground but without losing the power that you need to move yourself and also to provide enough fuel for the body to sustain the training that is required. That’s because of the need to ensure that the body is properly fuelled and not breaking down. It’s a myth that skinny is always faster and will always produce a better power to weight ratio. If you are going to be the very best in the world – that top 0.001 per cent – then the power to weight ratio is going to have to be on target but generally in middle-distance running there’s more scope for different types of body shape. You don’t have to be super skinny to be a distance runner. Distance running is perhaps more welcoming than, say, sprinting which relies more on whether you have fast-twitch muscle fibres. In essence, everyone can become a distance runner of some sort and improve substantially by training, but the level reached will be mainly determined by natural ability.
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