8 Training Types for Endurance Athletes

8 Essential Training Sessions for Endurance Athletes are:

1. Overdistance
2. Endurance
3. Strength
4. Easy Speed
5. Intervals
6. Resistance intervals
7. VO2 max sessions and
8. Maximum speed.

There is no shortage of "creative names" floating around for these sessions.
These names are often cleverly crafted in an attempt to create "the latest and greatest new training program or trend".

HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is a good example.
The type of session that I simply call "Intervals" is often referred to by others as HIIT - the name is different, but the session is the same.
Then, just to confuse things, some coaches will call VO2 Max sessions HIIT sessions.

Similarly, Overdistance is often called LSD (Long Slow Distance), or LIC (Low Intensity Cardio), or LISS (Low Intensity Steady State) - the variations are endless.
Many people (especially those who came up with a "new" name) will argue to the death that LISS is not the same as LIC or LSD.

My advice: Do not get hung up - it is only a name.
Let's agree that these names are nothing special.
They simply exist to give us a “common language” so that we can have a meaningful discussion about your training and the impact it will have on your performance - nothing more.

It is much more important to understand how, why and when to do each of these sessions.

Of these three questions how, why and when - WHY is arguably the most difficult to explain, but also (in my view) the most important to understand.
Without knowing the WHY, your training can never really be optimal.

Discussing physiological changes taking place in your body quickly becomes very technical. Based on my experience with athletes, these (scientific and technical discussions) does little to help most athletes.

My objective is to give you information you can act on.

To do this, I have developed my own unique way of simplifying things for you.
I have developed and make use of a Dial.
This dial is similar to the rev-counter of a car.

Using this Dial greatly simplifies what can otherwise become a very scientific (and for most people confusing) discussion.

In the simplest terms, your training should take you from the dial on the left, to the dial on the right.

Notice how most of these intensity bands have stretched, while others have shrunk.
During the start of your season, you will max out just after 12-o’clock on the dial.
At the end of the season, when you are in peak racing condition, you can push it to around the 4 or even the 5 o’clock position on this dial.

THAT is the secret to effective training.
Moving from the dial on the left, to the dial on the right over the course of a training season.

For Additional Information on each of the 8 Essential Training sessions click the links below.

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