Peter Savage: Glorious purpose

Still following ukemplaw Likes irony, classical music, running & wine

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

Now to be mainly found elsewhere https://t.co/F8vhkBkeRl

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video) https://t.co/Z4JsYkJn6T

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

Stop the suspension of Uni of Nottingham Mental Health & Child Nursing + Health Promotion - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/gGFXmPNWGH via @UKChange

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

Stop the repurposing of Harvey Hadden's indoor athletics track into padel courts https://t.co/azoselpdDc via @UKChange

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

Man of the people.

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

The Geat X-Tinction. From an in-house chat app to the most dangerous social media site in history. The magical flight and tragic decline of twitter.
https://t.co/6rUCJO2qwW

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

@NCT_Buses is the 18.31 11 bus running from Morrisons Gamston? It's not clear from the app.

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

An anti-migrant protester who filmed himself at recent demonstrations and called for the “protection of women and children” is a registered sex offender who has served four-and-half years for indecently assaulting a girl under 14.
https://t.co/22OZzeMZ6H

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

Got to say that I love it when @EastMidRailway insist that you sit in your reserved seat but none of the seats have any indication on them that they're reserved. Result chaos

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

@NCT_Buses what's happened to the number 6 buses?

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

I never use this place these days but as @virginmedia aren't anywhere else I've popped in to say how crap they are. Intermittent disappearance of broadband has finally ended them for me. End of contract I'm off.

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

@nottslive Have they been knifed on their way there?

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

No, The “Norwegian protocol” is not special. Or even something many novices should do. It’s not even what Ingebritsen does…And it is definitely NOT “sprinting”

Please do not reduce interval training into a "best" workout. This is marketing. But it’s nonsense.

There is no single best interval workout to improve cardiovascular fitness. Science does NOT show this. It is NOT the NORWEGIAN 4x4min as many health people claim. It's just not...

The best interval training is varied. Change the stimulus (speed, rest period, rest type, rep distance). Especially if you are after general fitness.

Focusing on a single best interval workout is what we did in the 1940s and 50s when Zatopek ran endless 400s, and Bannister ran 10x400 most days.

We've evolved since then. (And even Zatopek ran some 200s every now and then.)

Let's bring hard workouts into the 21st century.

My preference for general fitness is to rotate your hard workouts between:
1. Short and fast, but smooth
2. Medium length at 5k pace
3. Longer and steady

Examples:
1. 10 to 15 x 200m at mile pace with 200m jog recovery (or a pace you can sustain for 5-8min)
2. 5x 3min @ 3k-5k pace (pace you can sustain for 10-18min) with 3 minutes rest
3. 3x8min @ tempo/steady effort (pace you can sustain for ~hour) with 2min rest

These aren't magic either. Vary them up and alter the stimulus.

You can do option #2 (medium intervals) as short intervals if you make the rest really short (i.e. 400s with 25sec rest @ 10k pace). Or option #3 tempo, you could do in short intervals with really short rest at not too fast of a pace (10x2min on/30sec off at 15k pace) Why? Because you manipulated the speed/rest to get the same aerobic stimulus as doing longer intervals, with longer rest, at a touch slower.

The basic idea is do something that is manageably hard (7/8 out of 10, not max). Do a hard workout once, maybe twice per week. And lots of easy surrounding that.

The magic is in the manipulation of the variables. Not in a single special workout.

For more: https://t.co/vFWJmQNx84

*On the research on intervals: It's not that the research is bad. It's that you can't test interval training as it's done in the real world. So what happens is researchers isolate intervals for ~ 6 weeks and see what does "best" in improvement of a parameter. So you take a bunch of people doing easy mileage, then put them through 6 weeks where everyone does X, Y, or Z workout 2-3x a week.

It's not a reflection of what occurs in the real world. Often, studies on interval training are just a demonstration of what helps people peak for a "race" (or in many cases some physiological test).

It's why interval training almost always appears better in studies than it actually works in the real world. Why? Because we aren't constantly peaking...we're training for months on end, not 6-8 weeks.

It’s a false comparison. And often the workout that is most specific to the task demands ends up “best” surprise surprise.

I break down the Norwegian 4x4 claim here in full: https://t.co/D5qDHxFRH6

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

@CentralWBCA It would help if they bothered to stop all the cars driving down it illegally at the moment.

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

@NCT_Buses is the 6 at 9.32 from Morrisons Gamston going to run? The app seems ambiguous.

[Good Morning Britain @GMB]

Elon Musk has called for the release of Tommy Robinson and criticised the Prime Minister and Jess Phillips over the Rochdale scandal. He is also reportedly set to donate money to the Reform UK party. But should Elon Musk stay out of British politics?

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

Channel 4 ask is this the end for Twitter.
https://t.co/3m41c5H1tj

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

@virginmedia Just DMed

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

So in an example of classic @virginmedia standards. I get an email saying my contract is ending but "We’ve put together an exclusive, personalised offer for you. Discover what you could get by clicking the button below." But of course nothing happens when I click on the button.

[Peter Savage: Glorious purpose @pcsavage]

@virginmedia No nothing happens at all. The button isn't actually a link to anything