*s3/e44 How to Get Faster on Low Run Volume Training with Kim Nedeau
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Can you get FASTER by running LESS?? This is NOT your clickbaity "smash a marathon PR by only doing 3 runs a week"-style low volume training; coach and elite mountain runner Kim Nedeau is here to talk about how to excel as an endurance runner in a low run volume/high training volume framework.
-What is "low run volume/high training volume" training?
-Who this training framework is best for
-Manipulating training intensity distribution with lower running volume and higher cross-training volume
-"But isn't more mileage always better?"
-How is this framework different from multisport, i.e. triathlon, training?
-Ways to configure a training week in this framework
-How we're seeing more competitive and elite runners excel on lower run volume with high training volume
-and more!
Kim Nedeau is a life-long athlete and owner of Training Inclined, a coaching business that serves athletes seeking alternative training methods and injury prevention. She and her husband live in the woods of western Massachusetts where they share their love for endurance sports with their two teenagers and beloved German shorthaired pointer. She ran competitively in high school, at Brown University, and as an open athlete for a few years after college before starting a family. She returned to competitive running and ran some of her best races in her late 30s. Kim found her way to mountain running and was a member of the US Mountain Running team in 2016, where she placed 9th overall, first American, and helped the team win bronze in the World Mountain Running Championships. Kim's return to running involved a diverse approach that included a moderate amount of running, biking and strength, which in total added up to high volume training. This is the approach she now uses in her work with injury-prone athletes, those who want to avoid injury and those interested in longevity in the sport.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:07.3 | When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. |
| 0:14.1 | And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know. |
| 0:18.2 | If you're a new runner or you've been doing this for a long time, |
| 0:21.0 | there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. My guest this week is |
| 0:27.0 | Kim Netto, lifelong athlete and the owner of training inclined, a coaching business that serves |
| 0:31.6 | athletes seeking alternative training methods and injury prevention. The reason that Kim is my |
| 0:37.0 | guest specifically for this episode is because |
| 0:39.3 | of her personal and coaching experience in working with athletes who are seeking to explore |
| 0:46.5 | alternative ways of distributing their training throughout their week that doesn't always involve |
| 0:51.5 | running. So this typically means we are talking about low run volume training in the service of relatively high volume endurance training. |
| 1:01.2 | And as Kim has seen in her personal and professional life, it can work when done correctly. |
| 1:08.7 | Yes, it is possible to run less, cross-trained more, and still continue |
| 1:13.1 | to improve your fitness. So we talk all things cross-training, alternative training, what that |
| 1:19.6 | looks like, what low-run volume technically is, the athlete profile of somebody who would be a really |
| 1:26.5 | great candidate for exploring this type of |
| 1:28.6 | training and more. So if you're an athlete who, for whatever reason, you keep getting injured |
| 1:34.6 | when you try to run more, or you just genuinely enjoy methods of alternative training like |
| 1:39.3 | biking or swimming or hiking and their elliptical as well as running, and you've always wanted |
| 1:44.1 | to include |
| 1:44.8 | those things in larger volumes in your training this way of training might be for you and don't forget |
| 1:51.3 | this week is black friday week at running explained yes i know it took a day made it a whole week |
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