Ethiopian Elite Running E4: Endurance Training w/ Kenenisa Bekele's Squad 

The lesser spotted great Kenenisa! This series has been fascinating, thanks so much for it. I ended up getting Mike Crawley's book too.

Bekele is a gladiator man. That’s so cool.

I'm Ethiopian and live in the west and i have BESO for breakfast often. My mum send me BESO every 6 months or so. It is a natural healthy drink made from barley and its good for you. In Ethiopia, we don't get all the protein/carb shakes like they do in the west. However, our food is mainly plant based and healthy (no rice, no pasta , no white bread , not a lot of potatoes etc.. which means , unlike the west and the majority of African nations, Ethiopians eat healthy food year after year and that is one secret no one seems to mention. Injera, our breakfast, lunch and dinner is now known in the world as SUPER FOOD for its healthy content. Its not just the high attitude. Its the daily diet! . Ethiopians being one of the ancient civilization understood food and also the fact that you have to eat less to be healthy. I guarantee you, most if not all of those athletes came to training with an empty stomach where as someone in the west would fill themselves up with bad petrol. After training, most will walk home or not eat for at least 2 - 3 hours when they get home. I believe the secret is in what you eat and the portion of it. Eat less and you burn slow. Eat a lot and you burn yourself out. You put ashes onto of a burning charcoal and it will burn for days. You put gas on top of a burning charcoal and it burns high and hard but will die quickly. That is the analogy our forefathers use to teach us consumption. Every time you eat or drink high QUICK carb in your body , you are putting gas on the fire. Great vid.

How EXTREMELY FORTUNATE we are for this kind of content....!!! Loved the current format where Angus features himself for explaining things like corner cutting, post run energy drink etc. P.S. Ethiopia is beautiful country.

Bekele is the best long-distance runner of all time. At his prime he was just unmatched.

You meeting Bekele and having some good shots of without even knowing he was there proves one easy rule in business: coincidences only support those who are competent ;) :D

Feels good and something different seeing Bekele training

crazy elite sweat greetings greetings cheers from ARGENTINA

Learned more about Athlete Training in these 4 short episodes than anywhere else in the last 20 years. Hanna was also very enlightening. STANDS APART. Thx , Ato Angus.

Kenenisa✨️WR~never give Up):💯

11:00 really beautiful slow mo shot!

We will never see a runner like Kenenisa Bekele. I just wish we saw his potential. As insane as his PRs are, I'm sure he could have gone much faster. Great video as always sweat elite!

My king 👑 Bekele has done 🔥his best all the time it is the greatest example to all athletes that they believe and work hard 🌋

Best running training videos channel ever !! SWEAT ELITE 🏃🏃🏃🏃

Happy to see Bekele on training.

Thanks Sweat Elite Groups !!!

Lovely footage, tyvm!

Seeing your videos is always a pleasure, if always with a smile, congratulations and we love running🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♂️

Nice video. So much info. Thank you 🙏

This is my best running channel ~~👍

Really great video. Much enjoyed.

You guys @SETS keep getting better & better. Thanks for sharing the video featuring Kenenisa 👌

They all look so smooth and relaxed at 3:30/km pace.

12:26 nice smile on Kitata :)

solid effort on this one

This was awesome! Even though I am Ethiopian myself I still learned a lot, and it was great to see the legend, Kenenisa Bekele training🥰

The best out there!

What a treat to run with the legend

Just bought 2KG of roasted barley flour for £22. Thanks! Ethiopia has the best soft roads and best foods for running.

To think, Kenenisa Bekele is going on 40 years old now...

Wooow llevo esperando este vídeo muchos tiempo , CON KENENISA BEKELE , idolooooo

Very nice❤ work sir kenisa bekele

Thanku for posting this video. Motivating. Also showed us their energy drink💥👌👍🇮🇳

This is inspiring footage. Makes me want to race

Love from INDIA🇮🇳🇮🇳

Well done

Bekele and his training group: a golden audiovisual content. The good humor and charisma of the cameraman: 10/10. Blessings.

Amazing jobs

Thank you this was great to watch. I would change the title to “The sound of running “

I love running

Bekele just doing his daily morning jog at pace 3:23 k/h 🤭 Legend!

Love to see how they prove hard work will always top Basically everything! Bro is literally drinking water and sugar after making 35k at 3:20km pace look so easy! Simplicity and efficiency!

Bekele uno di noi unooo di noiiii Bekele uno di nooooi Bekele italiano vero

Thanks for capturing Bekele, it's good to see the greatest running along. Anyway which camera do you use to record this video ?

I am happy to have met you angees

Hi I'm from India .

K. Bekele, the best 🏃‍♂️

Many thanks for this inspirational helpful video. Could you work out a video talking about these Ethyopian athlete running shoes? It's said that their training shoes are different from race ones.

Bestias atléticas ! 🏃🏿‍♂️⚡🏃🏿‍♂️⚡🏃🏿‍♂️⚡..

Oo man my country an Elite Athletes include Kenenisa Bekele ✅

Bekele the king

I want see the training of kenenisa

these people are fast!

Qué pasada !!! Por qué no haces más videos de Kenenisa Bekele entrenando ya que estás ahí ? Está prohibido grabar a Kenenisa Bekele entrenando ? Espectacular, cada 6 zancadas de un corredor etíope Kenenisa Bekele da 4 y, sin embargo, el recorrido de sus piernas son las de un velocista Creo que Kenenisa Bekele es INIMITABLE !!!

Their moderate pace will put me in the icu especially at that high elevation 😆

They're talking while doing 3:20-3:30min/km 🙈

I got tired watching this 😂, but good job very inspiring ❤

GREAT VID.....Make it look so easy. ciao ciao isnt that italian?

How often does the squad do this type of workout? What was the air temp?(a couple guys wearing long sleeves...) Nice job on the filming👍🏼

As Always, awesome stuff.. The drinks bus reminded me of kids grabbing ice creams in the summer. I've always wondered where and how they get all the gear? I'm not sure what they get paid for whatever jobs they do, shoes and clothes are expensive here in Australia ( good apparel anyway ) . Thanks for another killer episode.

Nobody run barefoot like Abebe Bikila :( He train 100mpw barefoot on the Ethiopian plains.

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Hope to see him again in BMW Berlin Marathon

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Shura Kitata 😊

Waw

진짜 잘 달리네 ~

Sar runing madction batya plse

was bekele training all on his own and then decided to join the group when they caught up?

Bekele mora na mesma cidade que kitata?

what's the benefit of barley?

Is that you Angus

Damn that bus is old ISUZU xD😮

Looks like the host is riding on a Horse haha nice

Run with them 😒

Lol these guys do an easy run at my hard 1km pace

हम इंडियन खिलाड़ी को यह कोई बता देगा भाई की इस एनर्जी का नाम क्या है

What is the success story behind of Ethiopia's top world athletics secret? Success secret of Ethiopian runners 1) The place where runners practice is very important. Ethiopian runners are very lucky blessed, because they are in higher altitude location than most countries in the world. 2) This is the most important; Runners position must not very comfortable but difficult to practice. When we see runners from other countries It is not a very difficult place they practice, in fact they have made it very comfortable to run. For anyone to get good results in exams or test one should practice in a very difficult place in uncomfortable conditions like desert and in the wilderness area to prepare to get good results in exams. 3) Another secret of Ethiopian runners' success is that they run together or as a team. When we see many countries, they run not for the love of the country, but for the love of money and to become famous in the world. Only Ethiopian runners become famous without running for money. Because they run for patriotism or sport, not to compete for money. This is their big winning secret. They are not greedy athletes and they are not money-minded runners like the rest of the world. Because it is to respect and uphold the emblem of freedom of their country. because of The victorious spirit of their fathers is in their blood, bones and minds.

White dude on a bike in front of real runners... 😂

They are promoting unrealistic and unachievable body standards. This is dangerous for our children. I'd rather see marathoners weighing a more realistic weight of say 220 lbs, and running reasonable times of 9 to 10 minutes a mile. This is disgusting.

This is part of the reason god hasent interfered with earth yet. There are humans that are beautiful and awesome yo🫡. Sal