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If you don’t, I’ll tell everyone your mom looks like Dog the Bounty Hunter! Eight Week Running Plan for Functional Fitness

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Without further ado, here is the 8 week running plan for functional fitness. It’s pretty clear that we need conditioning, and it needs to be intense. They found that HIIT training yielded the better results. This study also compared high intensity interval training HIIT to more traditional cardio for power lifters and strongman athletes. CFE obtained nearly the same result with 41% of the volume. Statistically this isn’t much of a difference, but the polarized group ran a total of 283 min/week on average vs the 117 min/week for CFE. The polarized group improved their 5km run time by 6.20%, and the CFE group improved 5.49%. I bet you expect me to tell you CFE won, well they didn’t and that really doesn’t matter. Polarized training is mainly low intensity runs with a smaller percentage of high intensity. CFE recommends a very high intensity in their running intervals, and rarely programs easy runs. There was also a notable style difference.

The polarized plan did 5 days per week of running. CFE did 5 days per week of training 2 running, 1 wod and run day, and 2 wod only days. This study compared Functional Endurance Programming (CFE) vs traditional Polarized training. This has been much better studied than functional fitness and there are some studies that we can lean on to guide us in our program design. In the academic world training both strength and endurance styles is called concurrent training. Loading… Concurrent Endurance and Strength Training

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You’re probably saying great Jake, you suck, and we know this, but what does that matter to us? Well I will say in my professional coach and programmer guy opinion, that the whole of the functional fitness community has this problem.Īsk any athlete what kind of wods they least like to do, and the answer is almost always a running workout. This is why I’m actually faster at Fran now, but if you put my conditioning from 10 years ago with the strength I have now, I’d beat Matt Fraser I’m sure of it! Effectively I’m using my stronger muscles to overcome my weak energy systems. In this case I can very confidently point to my detrained aerobic and anaerobic systems, especially in the running domain. What gives? I’m much stronger, and I have a better Fran, but my run sucks!? I also had a 2:58 Fran time, but I couldn’t squat more than 315 or so.įast forward 9 years and I can squat 405, my Fran is about 2:56, but my 3 mile is roughly 24 minutes. Due to my job requirements I had to maintain a high level of endurance and could run 3 miles in about 20:30 at that time. I can tell you from personal experience that I’m just as guilty as anyone, and I should know better.įrom around 2008-2013 I was training for the Marine Corps and I used functional fitness to do that. This is because strong athletes do better at life, but we as a community have taken this a bit far. Gradually over the years we’ve seen a transition to a more lifting centric version of functional fitness. When I started doing functional fitness in 2007 it was much more bodyweight, and endurance based. We athletes, have developed a somewhat myopic idea of what our training should look like. I’m also the guy that’s trying to fix your conditioning so you can start kicking Carl’s ass in the 6 o’clock wod. I’m a huge, hunky, fintess nerd, who many have compared to Rich Froning (unfavorably). Rest assured that I’m not some skinny fat running nerd that’s trying to turn you into an endurance specialist. It’s….running! Keep reading to see why running matters, and how it can help you on even the heaviest metcons. You’re really neglecting a huge aspect of your fitness, and it’s impacting your WOD performance more than you know. If you’re a functional fitness athlete, chances are you’ve got a problem, and you don’t even know it.