Friday, 9 November 2018

REDUCE 10K RUNNING TIME IN 40 DAYS BY RUNNING LESSER


Shortcuts, who doesn’t like shortcuts! With celebrities like Tim Ferriss as role models, for a generation obsessed with life hacks, this paper presents a hack to reduce your 10k running time in 40 days, and that too by reducing running mileage.

However, as with all hacks/shortcuts it comes with its own set of snakes which bite you when you’re smugly taking a shortcut ladder. The patiently coiled snake here is the increase in running intensity during the 40 day period.

Recently, in an overeager state after having read the aforesaid paper, I inculcated the prescribed regime into my training but without reducing mileage and (in hindsight), as expected, I now have a nagging knee issue. Hence, the caveat here is to firstly do only a few of the intervals for a short while, and then start the 40 day training block (A.K.A. 40 day shortcut) after your legs are ready for the successive intense sessions. Again, this is a shortcut, so remember that you can safely do better if you adopt traditional methods of increasing running performance.

The aforesaid (year 2018) study/paper (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29417745) is titled “Effect of Speed Endurance Training and Reduced Training Volume on Running Economy and Single Muscle Fiber Adaptations in Trained Runners”, and as the name suggests the test subjects (trained runners with 10k times of about 46 minutes) reduced their respective weekly mileage but introduced a couple of 30-40 seconds maximal effort running intervals every few days during the 40 day test period.

Ladders give, Snakes take, Rich man, poor man, Beggar man, thief, Ain’t got a hope in hell, That's my belief - AC/DC Sin City

Duration of the aforesaid study was 40 days and it consisted of 10 sessions of speed endurance training (very short max effort intervals followed by walking recovery period) and 10 sessions of aerobic moderate-intensity training (regular runs) for the trained runners. Total running distance during the intervention/test period was reduced by 36% compared to before the intervention/test. The trained runners who participated in the study were running about 23-27 kms per week.

The training protocol can be demonstrated for a 12 day period as follows:

Day
Exercise Type
Details
1
Aerobic Moderate Intensity
Regular run
2
Speed Endurance Training
10 bouts of 30-sec “all-out” running. Running bouts were separated by 3.5 min of recovery (walking app. 200 m to the start-line)
3
Rest

4
Rest

5
Aerobic Moderate Intensity
Regular run
6
Speed Endurance Training
10 bouts of 30-sec “all-out” running. Running bouts were separated by 3.5 min of recovery (walking app. 200 m to the start-line)
7
Rest

8
Rest

9
Aerobic Moderate Intensity
Regular run
10
Speed Endurance Training
10 bouts of 30-sec “all-out” running. Running bouts were separated by 3.5 min of recovery (walking app. 200 m to the start-line)
11
Rest

12
Rest


The same protocol, as tabled above, was continued for 40 days by the participants. The results showed that compared to before -- 10 km performance improved by 3.2% in the trained runners. Namely, a change from “45.2 +/- 1.2” minutes to “43.7 +/- 1.0 minute".

Since the researchers could not find the exact source of such improvement, even after conducting blood tests and muscle biopsies – they attributed the improvement to ‘better running economy’.

In the next blog, I’ll write about a herb which reduces joint pains called ‘Cissus Quadrangularis’ A.K.A. ‘Devils Backbone’, which I’m currently using for my knee pain and other assorted creaks. In fact, some claims converge to say that it even repairs tendons and ligaments J


- Aman Yadav

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