Comments on: Does Tabata work? Yes, but you’ll never want to do it again

By: jmjdsportandfitness

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:58:16 +0000

The sprinter is definitely going to to be faster, and closer to their potential in terms of sprinting (and have better technique etc etc). Maybe a poor example from me! But the point I was trying to get across is that there is a psychological element to intensity, 80% to some athletes is a near maximal effort requiring a lot of recovery time (as it should, psysiologically), but some athletes can’t find the same level (which is why they wouldn’t need the recovery time).

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By: joelsnape

Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:49:31 +0000

This is a good point, but it also comes down to the fact that 80% of a sprinter’s top speed is going to be a) Higher and b) Closer to their actual genetic potential, I would have thought?

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By: jmjdsportandfitness

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:49:07 +0000

Self induced intensity is a funny thing. Ask a sprinter to run 200m at 80% top speed and they’ll need a 5 minute recovery. Ask a distance athlete to do the same and they want to go again after 30 secs. I think alot of people dont know how to find that extra ‘gear’ to really push themselves, and its something that needs to be trained over time.

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By: joelsnape

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:52:07 +0000

This is great knowledge Alan, thanks very much for the input. Not sure I’m good enough at bouldering for those kind of efforts, but maybe that’s the point…

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By: Alan Little (@fotoalan)

Thu, 04 Dec 2014 06:20:28 +0000

Good comments on tabata. (Don’t quite follow your comment about the girl though. I’d half kill myself if it got me smiled at by her, she’s stunning)

You mentioned somewhere that you boulder. Lots of serious climbing coaches – for example the Anderson brothers in Rock Climber’s Training Manual, but also Austrian national coach Reini Scherer and that’s about as serious as it gets – recommend “limit bouldering sessions” where you do a long and thorough warm up, then the actual workout is three or four attempts each on a few *really hard* boulder problems where you can only just do a move or two, with several minutes between attempts. Sounds not unlike Dai Greene’s session that you describe: actual contact time on the hard boulders is maybe 2-3 minutes tops.

Most people underestimate how hard maximum efforts really have to be and how much rest you need between them, and end up turning every session into an endurance workout.

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By: joelsnape

Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:06:00 +0000

Tough one, Joe: I’ve got very little experience with high-intensity swim workouts, so I don’t know where you risk hyperventilating or otherwise somehow killing yourself. So I don’t really want to recommend anything. Let me know what you come up with, though, and thanks for the kind words about the blog!

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By: Joe Sinagoga

Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:01:17 +0000

Hey Joel
Love the blog! I was wondering about a swim workout that you would say is on par with today’s homework.
Keep up the good work!
Joe

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