This Is The Hardest Marathon Training You Can Do

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@quimator 3 ай бұрын

I've had knee problems for a while now - which sucks, because I'm only 22, and as far as the physio can tell, the cause is here for life. I'd previously trained for a half marathon, but stopped running after that because the knee took a real beating, and any time I tried to run, it would flare back up. After hearing all about how you should run slow, and especially after watching some of the more motivational stuff in this channel, I decided to give it a try around two months ago; it's worked great! My heart's already as strong as it's ever been, and most of the struggle with the knee is gone. Watched the vid as I stretched after a long run, and thought I might leave this comment. Keep up the great work!

@TheStrengthScholar 3 ай бұрын

Look up "knees over toes guy" content on KZbin about rehabilitating your knee. His work is utterly transformational. I hope you see this comment

@pedrojorge2741 3 ай бұрын

I got some knee issues after my first half marathon as well, and took me several months to get back to a point where I can run a hard 10km without knee pain. Let me tell you, resistance training is extremely important for this recovery! Focus a lot on knee stability with regressed pistol squats, strength at full extension with reverse nordics and strength at full contraction with machine leg extensions, a few months of this and my knees now feel better than ever, pushing to beat my half marathon PB this year and do my first full marathon.

@tf-ok 3 ай бұрын

Glad it's working out for you after all. Apart from slow zone 2 running, here's a few things you can look into to build bulletproof knees: 1. Resistance/strength training. Focus on lateral movements. 2. Build your knee strength stability with slow, eccentric movements. Eventually work on single leg variations. 3. If you're training VO2max, run uphill, anything around 10-15 incline is good enough. Go on repeats. 4. Lose weight. This fact appears to skip the mind of many but it's not hard to see the logic that lower weight will ease the stress that your joints take. 5. Keep stretching, foam rolling and working on that mobility daily. A variety of yoga is highly beneficial too.

@quimator 3 ай бұрын

@@tf-ok thanks for the suggestion! Strength training is something I definitely have in my radar. As for the rest, I do try and add as much uphill as I can, and in terms of weight I'm already at a point where any further loss would probably not be healthy - or at least not aesthetically pleasing to me xD

@John.Pdcsta 3 ай бұрын

I had a ACL 30 years ago ..my best advice is plenty of strength training ..build musscle to support bones.

@jackhope8046 3 ай бұрын

Would highly recommend alternating the direction you run around the track on your intervals and/or for WU & CD. This will balance out the stress placed on the inside leg. You may also want to run in an outer lane but you have to do some maths on this if running to distance.

@bleepblap4618 3 ай бұрын

I needed this! Just started my marathon training block for the first time

@ferguscrawley95 3 ай бұрын

Best of luck with your training!

@bleepblap4618 3 ай бұрын

@@ferguscrawley95 thanks Fergus! Been watching you videos for awhile now, you’ve always been a huge inspiration to me and helped me change my life for the better, I appreciate you and your content!

@joemcfc5910 3 ай бұрын

Snapped my Achilles last year due to rapidly increasing training volume at high intensities. This year I’ve done nothing but zone 2 and everything’s feel strong and I’ve gotten much quicker

@illlli9114 3 ай бұрын

go on the lad

@conordempsey8854 3 ай бұрын

I can't believe you would do a run that long round a track. The boredom would kill me before the pace did.

@HighPostMedia 3 ай бұрын

31km is longer than a lot of marathon programs longest run without turning it into an interval session! This is pretty advanced/insane

@conordempsey8854 3 ай бұрын

He's training for a sub-3hr marathon so he's a pretty advanced runner. 4:15/km is 3hr pace so essentially this is a long run with the bulk of the work at marathon pace. That's definitely a good workout for about 3-5 weeks out from the marathon but if it's your first marathon then it would be overkill. 31km doing laps round a track is definitely insane tho! That must be so mind numbingly boring.

@neil1974uk 3 ай бұрын

That's a meaty workout 25km at tempo pace. I'm training for Yorkshire marathon in October and I did my first hard long run workout with a marathon paced effort last weekend. I did a 16km at a steady pace and 16km at marathon pace and a 3km cooldown. I like to do the marathon effort entirely to feel and not look at my watch and I could never do it on a track, my preference is to it on light trails. I think long run workouts are risk versus reward, in that you do want to simulate that feeling of fatigue and running on tired legs, but you don't want it to be too intense and to compromise the rest of your training. It's something you should be able to recover from in 48 hours.

@conordempsey8854 3 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure he's training for sub 3hr which would make the intervals ar marathon pace. In the tempoish HR zones but I would think of tempo pace as more like 10k / half marathon pace

@charlie.carter.outdoors 3 ай бұрын

How old is Fergus??.... I'm trying to piece together strength & endurance plan at the age of 45 for the first time in my life. I've had to make changes to it quite regularly as I'm figuring out that I simply can't do the amount of overall training I'd like to do without completely knackering myself up. I'm needing way more recovery time than I thought I would. Sadly I'm not that young anymore 😢😆

@edwardijoe 3 ай бұрын

Fergus is 28! However, I think he sometimes feels about 50 haha. Best thing you can do with your training is start with essential sessions and add in where you feel it makes sense. If you're finding this challenging definitely reach out to Jonathan Pain (Fergus's business partner) as he's on his way to 50, has 4 kids and still has quite a high training volume.

@bsidewarrior 3 ай бұрын

@ferguscrawley95 What's your hydration and sugar intake for these type of sessions? Water and 30g every 30 minutes using gels? I'm trying to figure out hydration for my first marathon, as someone who's only done half marathons with no in take, testing on the track seems like a sensible option. Trying to figure out what you've laid out next to the track …