Overall muscle problem

[itistime]

Hi, I believe a training regime I was given has changed what muscles I can use. Last fall I was trained under a running coach who gave me workouts for about 8 months. Before training under the coach all my times were normal (I consider myself an elite runner) but presently I run only noob times.

I am a middle distance guy and I was given all repetition type training with very little rest in between i.e. 16x400m with 45s rest or 16x200m 30 s rest (that could be a tuesday thursday workout). After about 5 weeks I noticed a few things, seemed to me I was not able to produce or perhaps have very low lactic acid tolernce because I felt no burn no matter how many reps. No burning might sound good but I than ran an 8k all out and got 27m.45s, I am a sub 25min 8k runner.

After 8 more months of workouts that went to much higher intensities and utterly slow times (i.e I am a 1:48 800m best but could not break 2:03) I just left my coach and have not contacted him in months. I thought resting would bring my muscles back to normal but they are still defective. Over the 8 months I was trained I put on like 30lbs of muscle but I am no stronger overall. Just doing 20 push ups is a problem plus sit ups are hard not just running. It just feels to me I am only able to use my high power muscles and not able to use my lower power endurance muscles. I dont actually feel injured so I dont know what this can be, Im just trying to get some help, I really dont know where else to go.

[RB_Runner]

hey whats up. first of all the info i am about to tell you is from personal experience as i am a high school runner, so don't trust that i will be completely right. but about a month ago i began to have the same problems. during the summer i ended up training my ass off in the summer and biked about 6 miles a day for work. i started to feel how you felt but kept running and i finally came to a point where i was about to break down and so i talked to my coach who recommened a ferritin blood test (see's how much iron storage you have for your body to use) and i recently got the results back with a ferritin level of 30. he said an "average" runner should have about 50. and i'm usually a sub 17:00, 5k runner. so started up on iron supplement pills and am slowly feeling better (takes about 4-5 months to get back up to my optimal ferritin level).

so what i'm telling you after all this is, you should first check for your ferritin and then also think whether or not your nutrition is supplying back the energy and minerals your body looses during running.

i hope what i said helped. and i am very humble to be giving advice to such a 800m runner of your caliber ( i used to do 800m during freshman and sophmore year, i'm now gonna switch to the 2mile this year, considering i love this endurance racing.)

good luck,
RB_Runner

[Sportitude]

Itistime, if you are seeing times change that much and nothing is working, I would suggest seeing a doctor or even a couple doctors. When your body starts doing unknown things and your 800 is 15 seconds slower than your PB (assuming you are as elite as you say your are), I would say you might have something serious going on and need to get it checked out...especially if you have health insurance (might as well use it).

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[kekapena24]

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[shane]

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