MFR 135: How to Crush Your Goal Race With Microcycles
Release Date: 04/28/2019
MFR 158: Repeats and Intervals
Mojo For Running Podcast
Learn all about classic track workouts and the variety of ways they can be structured to meet any runner's training goals.
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MFR 157: Speedwork, how and when to incorporate speedwork into your running training
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To get faster or stronger or even to build endurance, every experienced runner needs speedwork. This is the first of a series of episodes on speedwork for runners, what is a speedworkout, who should do it, how to add it to your running schedule, how often, types of speed training, how to maximize benefits, and what not to do.
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MFR 156: The Challenge of Holiday Running and the Mojo for Running December Challenge
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The month of December tests every runner's resolve like no other. Plenty of reasons not to run, plenty of other activities, pulling in other directions, but runners must resist the tendency to give up running training with the idea of starting anew in the new year. That is always a bad idea. In this episode, Deb explains the mindset of realism and compromise and announces a challenge for all listeners that provides both motivation and accountability for running through year end.
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MFR 155: Head to Toe, a Close Look at How to Move and Where to Look When You Run
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Let's go back to the basics of how to move when you run, head to toe, from where to look, to the nuances of effective arm technique, what not to do and physical cues to help with practicing good running form. While everyone's form will be unique, based on their body, minor adjustments will still pay off with greater comfort, improved endurance, greater speed, and fewer running injuries, all good reasons to focus on running form during every mile of every run.
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MFR 154: Fun With Fartlek Training
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Fartleks are unstructured speed workouts that can be incorporated into any running workout. Infinitely variable, fartlek workouts are running fun. Long-popular with experienced runners, these segmented runs don't require a track, and can be done by any runner or group of runners, of any level at any location, without a watch.
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MFR 153: How to Choose the Best Training Plan for Any Race
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A successful training cycle, one that ends in a successful goal race, depends on two things, an effective training schedule, and careful execution of that schedule, but all that starts with finding the right schedule, one that fits with the runner's fitness level, lifestyle, experience, and preferences. It's easy to find a running plan; the trick is to pick the one best suited to you.
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MFR 152: How to Taper for Goal Races, and What it Can Do for Race Performance
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The almighty taper is a thing of beauty. Most experienced runners, and certainly any runner who's trained with a coach, knows about this masterpiece of training theory. No amount or type of training, no training regimen, however well executed, will fulfill its potential unless it ends with the appropriate taper period. If you're not familiar with the idea of tapering for a goal race, this episode will convince you never to omit this from another training cycle. If you are familiar with tapering, it will be a reminder and refresher of all that is required for the optimal taper.
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MFR 151: How to Structure Your Running Training When You're Self Coached
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Every runner will benefit from learning these basic running training principles, the ones that have proven the test of time. These guidelines provide the framework for virtually all running training schedules. Understanding them will provide any runner with the knowledge to analyze various schedules or to create a simple and basic one, and that understanding will also help any runner make minor adjustments when they're following a schedule.
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MFR 150: Treadmill Running and the Indoor Training Mindset
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Some runners love their treadmills, doing most of their running, inside, and others call them 'dreadmills.' Find out the various benefits, while discovering ways to make your treadmill workout both entertaining and beneficial.
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MFR 149: Rebounder for Running Training
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Running on a rebounder, also known as a mini trampoline, is a great option for enhancing running fitness in a way that complements running outdoors and provides a low cost, convenient means of training indoors during bad weather or just for a fun change. The soft surface will allow for adding more miles with no pounding, and when it's hot out, being inside will likely result in more overall training. The plyometric element strengthens muscles, tendons, and ligaments in a different way from outdoor running.
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I know very few runners not focused on getting better, improving their running performance, scoring PR’s, but sometimes there are ways to improve, even quite basic ways, that never become common knowledge to non-elite runners, certainly not common knowledge to people who aren’t working with a coach.
One of the most basic concepts is periodization, which means, in case you didn’t listen to Episode 134, the period of training, usually several months, leading up to your goal race, and that period of time is broken into three segments or microcycles. In this episode I explain what those three segments should look like and why.
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