Ep. 8 - Base Training: No Maffetone, 5 Crucial Ingredients, and Cross-Training

This episode of The Sunday Shakeout features a training tutorial on the most fundamental phase of training: the base phase. The winter time is often the time of year where runners will be doing a lot of foundational training to prepare themselves for the track season. Without a base phase, they would suffer badly in their spring track season. However, a lot of runners think too narrowly about base training and that it is all easy running. This episode addresses why the Maffetone Method is ineffective, five key fundamentals to base training, and ways to build your endurance outside of running. It's time to think a little more broadly about base training. As Alberto Salazar talks about, training is like soup and if you exclude some ingredients, it becomes bland. I hope you all enjoy this episode of The Sunday Shakeout. Contact Nicholas: [email protected] Official Podcast Page: https://anchor.fm/andrew-ma4