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If you're a committed #400m athlete then you know all about lactic acid. As an 400m athlete myself, I certainly do. It was never enjoyable. The problem is that we often accept lactic will arise in the home straight of a 400m race. That it should happen. And if it doesn't then you are not training properly or running the race properly. We have the view that has been driven into us that lactic acid is a good thing and we must suffer it to improve. I don't think it should occur at all in a race. And if it does, then you're hampering yourself. Why? Well, the one thing I learnt was that my fastest 400m races were always my easiest. That means that down the homes straight of my 400m PB races, my lactic levels were very low. I actually felt very little lactic acid. In fact, on my fastest 400m hurdles race, I could have carried on running for another 100m after I'd reached the finish line. I felt I was just striding throughout the race. On the other hand, the races that were the toughest were the slowest and that was when lactic was at it's highest. This had nothing to do with fitness by the way. My performances didn't correlate with that. The thing is, because we train so hard, we train to actually want lactic acid in our races. Which means, we often train ourselves slower. But I digress slightly and thats for another video. This video is all about how to handle lactic acid once it arises in a race.
The problem is there's very little information on how to deal with it during a 400m race or in training. There's a lot on how to handle it after the race but surely during the race is where it's most important because if you don't handle it right, it could mean the difference between 1st and 2nd. It could mean the difference between a good time or a bad time. The difference between a good training session and a bad one. The guidance we are given in sport and fitness industry (especially in 400m training) is to try harder, grin and bear it and work through it. Additionally, if you have lactic at the end of a race, normally ccoaches will tell you the common philosophy which is to work on your endurance. It's misguided information and the philosophy of training hard has contributed to this misguided information. Come across an obstacle/ Train harder.
This is such narrow minded thinking and it does nothing for our sport and it does nothing to grow our sport. It's time for new thinking.
A lot of the time, you will see most 400m athletes, including world class ones, tighten up at the end of a race, you will see them swinging their shoulders and their jaw and face would be clenched in pain and effort. This is lactic acid handled badly and it's bad #sprinting and running habits. When the best in the world are doing this, we have to stop and think because this is the blind leading the blind.
In this video, I give you guidance on the correct way to handle lactic acid. This can mean the difference at the end of a race between 1st or 2nd or tenths of a second. I also give you a perfect example of a world class athlete handling lactic acid well.
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20 янв 2019
