It will come as no great surprise that the
running session is going to be the core part of most training
sessions that an athlete does. The variations that can be done are
enormous and it is difficult to fully do them justice in this
section - but we'll try!
However, here are a few of the different types of running session and
definitions for training that can be done. Click on the list of
links in the section below these paragraphs to give yourself details of their formats and
principle benefits.
These are not all mutually exclusive, it is quite possible that a session could be
devised which encompasses two or maybe more of the types of training set out below.
An example for sprinters may be a speed endurance session, running a series of interval repetitions over
150 metres, preceded by a number of 30-40 metre repetitions for sprint work.