[terracite]

Hello,

I just finished reading the second book and I’m trying to get the strength training recommendations straight in my head. What’s the difference between outdoor ME training for running and hill sprints – are they the same thing? Also, is there a recommendation to do both general strength workouts AND ME/Hill sprints at any point or does one “graduate” from general strength once the stage 3 workouts are easy and move to just doing the specific strength workouts (which I think are the same as ME workouts and therefore the same as hill sprints?)?

 

Thanks for helping get me on the right track!

[Scott Johnston]

Thanks for writing in with your questions.  You may want to listen to the book club recording I just did last night on Chapter 6 of TftUA on Strength.  We should have it uploaded to YT very soon. You can find it here.

In the meantime, here are my thoughts on your questions:

Hill sprints, as you might recall from pages 179-183, are very short near maximal efforts.

The outside muscular endurance workouts are long-duration sub-maximal efforts.

They can be used concurrently (in the same week) during your training.  I’ll be going into more detail on how to implement these modalities in the next book club meeting in late September.

As a rule, general strength comes earlier in the training cycle than hill sprints if one is deficient in general strength.  At some point, you’ll replace the general strength with the hill sprints.

I hope this helps,
Scott

 

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