Re: just for fun: the Hadd test

Dan Stumpus said:

When I did my first speedwork (20 x 220, w/220jog, once per week), I went
from 2:53 to 2:44. Coincidence? My thought is that just about any
speedwork helps sharpen you, provided you have a strong base. I know the
research says longer intervals are better, and as I got more serious, I
abandoned the 220's, but my guess is not all that much better.

Having done short reps before -- 20x220 is a long workout, even though the
recoveries are quite "long". In theory, this is "bad". In practice, ones
heart rate is not going to drop all that much over a ~ 1 minute recovery at
the end of a workout. And because you do short reps faster, you are getting
some anaerobic work out of the deal also. Maybe that tradeoff was actually
the right one for you to make, given your relative strengths and weaknesses.

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

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Dan Stumpus said:

When I did my first speedwork (20 x 220, w/220jog, once per week), I went
from 2:53 to 2:44. Coincidence? My thought is that just about any
speedwork helps sharpen you, provided you have a strong base. I know the
research says longer intervals are better, and as I got more serious, I
abandoned the 220's, but my guess is not all that much better.

Having done short reps before -- 20x220 is a long workout, even though the
recoveries are quite "long". In theory, this is "bad". In practice, ones
heart rate is not going to drop all that much over a ~ 1 minute recovery
at
the end of a workout. And because you do short reps faster, you are
getting
some anaerobic work out of the deal also. Maybe that tradeoff was actually
the right one for you to make, given your relative strengths and
weaknesses.

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/

However, with short recoveries the workout like that becomes a VO2max
workout. Billat has a paper (as did Astrand) showing how 30 sec all out, 30
sec rest led to a highly

I cannot remember who did the study, but with cyclists doing 30sec intervals
all out and then nothing, that after the first one or two intervals, the
aerobic contribution increased. I suspect this was one of the ways that
Zatopek was able to run long distances although he allegedly did a lot of
interval workouts.