 So you want to run a personal best you want to reach new levels of fitness you want to run faster and run longer You know, maybe there's other aspects of fitness that you want to improve The point is if you're gonna get there you need to do the training necessary to reach that fitness level, right? Well, that makes sense of his statement. Now, what if I could do More training though, what if I could do Elliot Kipchoge's training. He's the world record holder in the marathon Does some epic training What if I just did that like I just went out and started doing exactly the same as Elliot Kipchoge And I sustain that for months on end. Would I get better? Heck yes I would get a lot better. In fact, I would get a lot better doing that than I would doing what I'm doing now but Can I do that and the answer is no, there's no way that I can do Elliot Kipchoge's training now It's just no way even if I was able to do it. Obviously there are lots of other factors It's like how long have you done that training for 10 years 20 years now? We're talking, you know long consistency over many many years and there's genetic factors obviously and then there's age as well So I'm not saying that anyone doing the same training as Kipchoge would run as fast as Kipchoge But if anyone did that sort of training or just any elite runner type of training, they would get very fast At running it's just that's obvious But there's one big problem and that is that you cannot just go out and do that sort of training because you'd get injured or Overtrained it's just not possible to sustain that sort of training without building up to it gradually For many years if not a decade or more So what I'm trying to get at today is that you got to realize that it's not just about Training for your next goal. It's not just about Doing the training necessary to reach a certain fitness level certain performance level. Let's say you want to go Below a certain time you want to run sub X time for whatever distance you need to do this sort of training to get there Okay, it's not just about the training you're doing to reach that level It's also about the training that you're doing in order to be able to handle the training That you're going to need to do in order to reach a certain reach a certain level All right, so we're talking about training to train and training to train is slightly different than training to perform. All right because training to train is about building a body that Can handle the training necessary and part of that is of course doing as a runner loss of easy mileage easy kilometerage just logging hours of running which of course will Directly contribute to your fitness development right there and then and will contribute to your next PR But it's also going to contribute to building your resilience, right strengthening those tendons Muscles bones increasing your bone density and also endocrine factors hormones blood, you know just getting your body used to training Getting yourself fit getting yourself athletic Which will allow you to then later? Stack more training on top of that and keep building. All right, so it's about building stone for stone, right? You are literally you're building a House that's what Renato Canova famous marathon coach likes to talk about building your aerobic house You know and building your house takes a lot more Focus and energy than maintaining it. All right, so when you're building your house, which according to Canova takes like 10 years of dedicated training. I'm talking elite level now but even as at the at the more lower performance levels than elite it still applies You know, you need to build your not only your fitness, but your tolerance to training Because if I had the tolerance now I don't but if I did Have the tolerance to be able to handle Elite level Kipchoga style training right now. I would I would I guess so freakin fast Right because being someone who does that training no matter their Dynetics or age or whatever anyone who does that training and can handle it will get very fast Not necessarily as fast as Kipchoga, of course The question then for especially at the elite level for a lot of runners becomes not necessarily Who can run the fastest? although in the end that's what it's about But it's who can train the best who can train the most and the best who can handle the training necessary So if someone stays injury-free for a long period of time, they're Better able to do the training that's necessary and their performance in the subsequent season is usually very good Whereas if they get injured and they lose consistency They're not able to do the training and subsequently their performance drops So training to train is a key aspect of anyone's running System, I think it should be and that all that includes as I said already a lot of kilometers Just building that aerobic base and certainly developing that speed, you know regular strides regular speed training peers of the year where you focus on speed training perhaps and Obviously lots of threshold training some view to max, you know It depends on the on the distance you're training for and where you're at and all that but like just general running training, right? But there's also all that extra stuff the the the supplemental training. I like to call it. It's the strength training It's the heavy lifting. It's the prehab. It's the proprioception the balance Maybe even doing other sports right and doing movements that are outside of your normal repertoire as a runner Building your athleticness becoming more athletic Means that you're probably also going to move better and be more injury-free Right at the top level or when you're in peak specific training before a race You're probably going to cut out a lot of that just to give yourself Only running to focus on and your body needs only that to get very sharp and specific for a race But on other parts of the year you're doing all those things and it's not necessarily because it's directly making you a better runner Although a lot of it will But it's because it's going to make you a more resilient runner. You're training to train That's it. Are you training to train? Let me know in the comments. I'm certainly training to train. I in a way I Am focused on specific goals now, but I'm really focused a lot on what Where can I be in like three four five years? That's what I'm really excited about where can I be in like five years? I mean don't get me wrong It's for me. It's about the journey and the training more than it is about the goal itself But I'd like to see where I can be in five years and to get there. I need to do good training now in order to handle Next year's training right and like that you stack on top more training on top of Of the old training and get better and better and better and be able to handle more and more and more training That's it. Check out my coaching link in the description Do sign up for that if you're interested in guidance on your running journey reach your PBs that sort of thing Subscribe of course if you want more videos about stuff like this And I hope you're doing well and having it all today. All right. Thanks for watching. Bye