Maffetone Method - Cork

HobbyMan

Just wondering if anyone in Cork uses the Maffetone method for training ?

If so would you mind posting a quick summary of your progress as well as diet ?

For those wondering what the Maffetone method is just read this article:

http://philmaffetone.com/180formula.cfm

Maffetone is the guy that trained super triathletes Mark Allen & Mike Pigg amongst others ( probably showing my age there ).

TIA

Edit: Just to add this article by Mark Allen: http://www.duathlon.com/articles/1460

hunnymonster

not sure why you're only interested in Cork people following this HR training method? But in any case, I used the method for about 6 months and took 90 minutes off my ironman time. I good bit of that would have been down to more consistent training than I had done previously but there was certainly something to the low HR methods.

ger664

Again this falls foul to the same problem that the 220 - your age for max heart rate calculations.

A persons max HR will only decline with age in sedentary individuals, thus the same applies to the above formula.

People who have been actively fit or train 4-7 days a week max HR will not drop at that rate if at all.

Zuppy

I haven't looked in depth at the links above but trained someone for a marathon exclusively by heart rate (their wish) and only in the lower regions.

The 220-age is as applicable a using BMI for a fitness measurement. NOT worth it.

Some of the field tests for establishing HR max and zones are quiet useful and fine for the mid pack athlete. Nothing beats the gold standard of the performance lab.

I found that the fitter I have been the faster my HR increase at the outset and a higher than the equation, working HR but I can maintain it for longer periods with a slower cardiac drift. but that is just me.

What I like about HR training is that aside from the structured plan it focus's the athlete better on the task in hand and the logging of sessions helps identify overtraining faster than the regular milage based training models.

Just be aware of the myriad of factors that influence heart rate. Do most runner actually know their resting heart rate? And if it is elevated, should they train or not? Etc

End Heart rate training rant. :-)

Zuppy

PS: your right to throw this highly technical and intellectual question out to Cork people first.

Bugsy2000

Zuppy wrote: »

PS: your right to throw this highly technical and intellectual question out to Cork people first.

Now I get the Location: PRC

Zuppy

:-)

Well what did ya expect.