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>"Marathons aren't high intensity workouts." It sounds like you've never run one. World class athletes can run an entire marathon at a sub 5m mile pace. While
by xiaoma 9y ago
>"Marathons aren't high intensity workouts."
It sounds like you've never run one. World class athletes can run an entire marathon at a sub 5m mile pace. While they could run a single mile race in 4:05 or so, it's not even remotely a low intensity effort to run a 5 minute mile, even for the fittest people on the entire planet.
Unless you've put real effort into training, 60+ year-old competitive marathoners have done a 20 minute tempo run faster than you ever have... and repeated it 7 consecutive times without rest.
Marathons are high intensity and extended efforts.
- teamhappy 9y agoMarathon race pace is ideally ever so slightly below your lactate threshold. The definition of high intensity training is literally anything above that threshold.
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- xiaoma 9y agoRunning is generally considered a high intensity activity, but of course there are different degrees. >"The definition of high intensity training is literally anything above that (lactate) threshold." That's far from a universal definition. The phrase "high intensity training" often refers to a type of strength training popularized by the founder of Nautilus that involved lifting until muscle failure. What you're describing specifically is called anaerobic training.
- teamhappy 9y ago> That's far from a universal definition. In sports medicine lactate threshold/anaerobic threshold/90(ish)% of VO2max has been the de facto definition for high intensity efforts for many many years. You'll find plenty of examples on Google Scholar (including papers criticizing people for using these thresholds to define the intensity of workouts...) > Running is generally considered a high intensity activity Nope. Running can be a low, medium or high intensity activity depending on how hard you run (relative to your max).
- xiaoma 9y agoThat's an extremely pedantic argument. This isn't a sports medicine journal and you can google to find many other sites focused on health and wellness that go with a more mainstream usage. This even includes the NIH for what it's worth but I'm done on this thread.