Fartlek

Fartlek Training,Fartleks:Fartlek training offers a wide range of athletes an effective ad efficient form of endurance conditioning… But just like every other form of sports training you must structure the session to meet the demands of your sport.. Fartlek training allows the athlete to run freely over varying distances and at varying speeds.

A single session might consist of walking, cruising and sprinting. It might last for 20 minutes or 5 miles. The variations are unlimited. And that means some specific guidelines are in order so each session can be made as effective as possible. If you’ve read some of the other articles on the site you’ll appreciate the importance of specificity. It’s one the most important principles of training and one that is often overlooked.

In most fartlek training sessions intervals are kept relatively short and frequent. Anything too long simply becomes more like interval training. Each interval might range from 10 seconds up to 5 minutes for example. For long distance runners (anything from 1500m to 10k) more structured sessions are beneficial. For example, you might run hard for 5 minutes (above race pace) then jog slowly for 1 minute to recover, and repeat that five or six times.