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Glossary
Below are some terms (in alphabetical order) that you may see around the site but may not know what they mean.
- Aerobic
- In a running context this means that you aren’t breathing hard and
your muscles are getting the necessary oxygen to continue to work
well. Most training should be done aerobically (unless you're a
sprinter).
- Anaerobic
- This is the opposite of aerobic. This is when you run hard,
flat–out or are sprinting to the finish of a race ;-). This sort of
running cannot be continued for very long without some form of failure
(generally you run out of breath).
- Fartlek
- Swedish word meaning ‘Speed Play’. It’s a type of training
devised by Gösta Holmér (a Swedish coach) in the 1930s so has been
well tested! It involves running at an effort beyond normal race pace
for short bursts and having respites in–between. It differs from
intervals in that it is not so regimented and it is usually up to the
runner to see when they want to push themselves again.
Benefits include increased aerobic and anaerobic conditioning i.e. it gets easier to breath when going faster than you would normally.
- Hill training or just plain ‘Hills’
- A form of resistance training that plays out similar to Intervals.
You basically run up and down a hill for a certain amount of times. It
works the muscles differently to running on a flat course and this
conditioning will always help when racing a course that is hilly. It
can improve, the less worried about but actually quite tricky,
downhill technique.
- Intervals
- Similar to the Fartlek method of training, Intervals are more
formalised and have definite anaerobic sessions and are more likely to
be run on a measured course (like a track). You have a set time to run
hard, followed by a recuperative phase, followed by another hard run
and so on until the end of the session.
Benefits include increased aerobic and anaerobic conditioning i.e. it gets easier to breath when going faster than you would normally.
- Zig-zags
- Home grown form of Fartlek using the parallel streets around the local Benfleet area. Being Benfleet includes some quite reasonable inclines ;-)
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