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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 2967854, member: 1452"]
FYI...I am one of Frank's biggest defenders. if you don't believe it, check out my responses to people who bash him.

"Altitude".  Tell you what.  I will meet you at any outdoor track on the planet.

We will do my interval workout, with each of us wearing the altitude mask after the timed mile, the 5 minutes of rest and the first 400.

We'll see if you even make it to the end of the 6 400s.  He!!, we'll see if you even finish the mile.  I hope, for your sake, you ran track or XC in high school/college.  If so, you'll have a shot.  If not, LOL...

And don't tell me you "jog" to keep in shape.

Intervals are a totally different animal.

Intervals with minimal rest to maximize formation of lactic acid are immensely painful.  Think your heart exploding out of your chest from sheer exhaustion after.every.single.one..

Unless you do them, you have no idea how painful they are.  And doing them in an altitude mask makes them exponentially worse.

Remember, only 5 minutes of rest after the mile and 2 minutes of rest in between the 400s.  less for the 200s and the 100s.

So laugh away at my "altitude" explanation and go ahead and denigrate it to your heart's content...and we'll see how you do when the rubber meets the track - so to speak.

And just an FYI...this is the workout I started doing with my high school aged daughter a few years ago to help get her in shape for soccer tryouts where the requirement was 2 miles in 12 minutes - in the middle of the afternoon under the blazing sun in 90 degree heat and high humidity in the middle of the summer in northern New Jersey...

She would run, puke, run, puke, run, puke from beginning until the end. And she was 15 at the time.  it took her a month to get through the workout without puking.

How old are you?
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