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Has any tried or have opinions about the Easy Interval Method?
@frescosecco and I had a chat yesterday about his experience with #EIM. He's new to it but likes it.
I'm interested as a way to train for half marathons. The attraction is the author's claim that lower mileage but more sub-threshold intervals reduces injuries.
https://easyintervalmethod.com
There's a negative review here, followed by a great deal of pushback:
@MarvinFreeman @frescosecco
Sounds like a variant of the "Norwegian Singles Method". About reducing injuries. That is of course bull crap. I am, for example, more prone to injuries when I run faster. I has something to do with my rickety body.
@Johan_Barelds @MarvinFreeman NSA seems to be a popular and effective training strategy for half-marathons. But then I can't imagine EIM not being effective too, given the similarities.
I think one big difference is that the EIS interval paces are slower. For me, the 1K EIS pace is nearly a minute slower than the NS pace. The NS pace brackets my threshold pace. The #EIS pace is below threshold.
@Johan_Barelds are you skeptical of the "fewer injuries" idea because you feel intervals at any speed are harder on the body?
@MarvinFreeman @Johan_Barelds I guess the 1km is the "workhorse" for both methods. Didn't know that the NS km is faster, interesting. (There's still the 200m and 400m, of course)
@MarvinFreeman @frescosecco Thats correct. If your body is strong enough, no issues ofcourse. But it to easy to say that less distance and more intervals reduce injuries. It is a much more complicated story
@Johan_Barelds @MarvinFreeman @frescosecco bringing in a “sample of one” example of not doing speed work at all - my wife. She never trains any intervals nor tempo runs nor steady state runs nor does any speed work outs. Her regular training pace is around 5:55. Plus minus a few seconds. She runs with this 10-30km sessions. Sometimes 20km in the morning followed by 10km in the afternoon. Constant pace. She did a training marathon last year on her own and managed to do a “race” pace of 5:00 over the marathon distance without showing any signs of being really tired or trashed afterwards requiring a long recovery. No tapering either before doing this. Just out of her regular volume training.
As I said, “sample of one” story. But it shows that you don’t have to train speed to run “faster”. She attributes to the consistency she has build up over the years.
@recollir @MarvinFreeman @frescosecco
Just ran into this article and remembered this discussion.
I will be honest with you, I only read the management summary 😆 .
https://alistairbrownlee.substack.com/p/the-easier-you-train-the-faster-you?triedRedirect=true
