How Low Heart Rate Training Improves Running Performance with Dr Phil Maffetone

I'm so grateful i stumbled over the MAF Method while researching how to start running and gave it a chance. After a little shin plins i researched and deep dived into this training method and i'm glad to say after i recovered and started training again with low heart rate im feeling great and healthy. No pain, less stress and fatigue after the training and i really feel strong and am exited for my next slow run. Thanks for all your work! Thanks for sharing this talk! This is gold!

Thanks for this interview. I've been completely fat-adapted for three years thanks to carnivore. I'm an endurance athlete who runs 100 miles a week on ruminants, water & salt. BTW I'm a 62 yo LMHR.

I have been reading and listening to Phill for years. He has helped a lot of athletes over the years.

I’ve been doing these slow runs for a couple years now and agree with everything being said here. Great video

Thanks for the interview.

Excellent interview. Very useful for me, a cyclist who is adding running back in the mix.

Excellent books... I read The Endurance Handbook...

Excellent

49:00 the Perth Running Festival is on Oct 6. Great course, lots of participation. Not sure if the marathon is sold out yet, but the half isn't. It's typically a good one for running fast times

Tom has a very nice running gait - he’ll smash his PB! Looked very strong 💪🏼

can i do hill training for strength during my MAF training ?

Hey relaxed running, how do we get to Dr. Phil to help fix my base running: I've been eating quite well, not the junk food like Tacobell every day or that kind of rate, but not exactly as guided too, I sleep pretty ok averaging 6-8 hours, I do deep breathing for 10-15 min almost every morning and run afterwards 3 medium length run (6km) and 1 long run (13-15km) every week with strength training after my medium run for 30-45min. I've been conducting the base method for almost 8 months now, with just 1 full month break due to fasting. My heart rate is still not consistent meaning I have to literally stop running to adjust my heart rate. So my speed hasn't improved. How long will my base run get the consistency and will eventually improve my speed..

Thanks for this, from England. I've only just learned about the low-intensity high-volume approach. I've basically been doing 3-4 involuntary tempo runs a week plus an all-out Parkrun on the Saturday. And I've plateaued around 20:xx minutes despite putting loads of effort in. I'm gonna switch to 3-4 easy runs a week instead (60-90mins at 60-70% max HR), and use the Saturday run as a tempo run, and see what changes I get over 3 months. Cheers, mate!

If you're fat adapted, and maintain a lowcarb strategy just until you are on the startline. If you then ingest carbs to supplement with what is released from the liver, will this compromise the fatburning ability instantly? I wore a CGM for 11 days. I would notice a slight increase (from about 5.2mmol to 6.8), when I started a long workout in zone 3, bordering to zone 4. Never got around to test the effect of carbs while exercising.

Good stuff. But I don't like when people take it to the extremes. If carb as fuel isn't the best during a marathon, where are the world records on water or on mct fats etc?

it's brilliant, You can do a Halfmarathon under 140 bpm :)

Kenyans have trained on fat. Called brown fat. Dr Van Aaken Heart Doctor , coach and Author who wrote The Endurance Method did biopsies on Kenyan runners and found brown fat in there muscles.

Is it a thing to have deliberate spelling mistakes in titles to get algorithm boosting comments? I'm seeing this alot. Interesting topic ty.

Straight MAF doesn't work for me unless I go to insane volume. But if I add in a longer faster run once a week I see fantastic results. The one time it worked for me I was running a half marathon every day, I got to 150km per week for 6 weeks straight. It was so damn slow (9 mins/km) but I ended up running my second fastest marathon and the only time I've run a perfect split and finished strong.

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