New Feature for my Paying Subscribers
An inside look into my weekly training playbook.
Eventually I’ll start adding sleep, nutrition, and mobility work into these weekly projections. I want you to see exactly what I’m doing to maintain an athletic lifestyle while aiming at better performances racing and live coaching in long distance running events.
Here’s what I’m hoping to hit this week
Feel free to ask questions about anything here, I’m excited to get a deeper conversation going here.
Monday: 15lb Steel Mace Workout
Tuesday: Fast 8.5 mile trail run
Wednesday: 1/2lb Jump Rope Workout
Thursday: Easy 4 mile road run
Friday: Maybe Hill Sprints / Maybe More Jump Rope
Saturday: Bodyweight Calisthenics and 25lb Steel Club
Sunday: Long training run with Tribal Teammates and Athletes
My Breakdown Reasoning
I am training to live coach 5-10 athletes running a 50mile ultramarathon in the Arizona desert mountains is 2 1/2 months.
I am purposefully deloading my own running and adding in an extra strenghtening session each week. When I was training for the backyard ultra in September I ran 4-5 times a week, doubling up days, and running on consecutive days. That broke a 9 year training rule of mine, no running back to back days. While the added volume paid off, it did leave my body a bit worn out.
I’m not personally worried about completing the 50 miles, since I’ll be running a slower pace. I am worried about any small nagging pain becoming a giant distraction to my ability to live coach the athletes depending on me stewarding them across the course and through the finish line.
So my training is aimed maintaining my running volume, mirroring the training of our athletes on their long run days, but running my own programming the other 6.
I want two running days to push pace or recovery, this allows me to stack miles but give my body a running break each day.
The other days I am targeting specific areas to strenghten. Jump Rope, Steel Maces and Clubs, and Bodyweight calisthenics allow me to hit my legs while also building upperbody durability.
I’ll do a lot of single leg stability exercises to ensure strength, length, and mobility. But I’ll also target my core and upper body. These pieces of equipment give me full body exercises that target all of these areas.
I’ll need to carry a pack, use my trekking poles, and go up and down hills for 50 miles. That requires good posture, strong positioning, and durability. If my body starts to collapse on itself, I’ll be in a world of pain and unable to fulfill my live coaching duties.
So it’s less running and more tactical training this week and for the foreseeable future as I prepare for my hardest live coaching race yet!
Let me know what you’re training this week and if you have any questions leave a comment or send me a message and I’ll give you some advice or pointers!
Happy Training My Friends!