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How To Crush Low Heart Rate Training With William Barth (70 years young)

Name: How To Crush Low Heart Rate Training With William Barth (70 years young)
Uploaded: 2024-12-13T17:07:38+00:00
Duration: 35 s
Channel: Floris Gierman
Description: In this segment, the speaker (William Barth) explains his experience with low‑heart‑rate, or MAF, training. He describes running in a completely relaxed…

13 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker (William Barth) explains his experience with low‑heart‑rate, or MAF, training. He describes running in a completely relaxed, low‑intensity state—so relaxed that his heart rate stays low and he feels no strain—yet he still achieves strong performance, "crushing" his workouts. He emphasizes the core MAF principle that running slowly (at low heart rates) ultimately makes you faster, a concept he calls the truism “run slow to get fast.” Drawing on his lifelong competitive running background—including marathons, 5Ks, and 10Ks—he argues that this method can dramatically improve race outcomes despite its seemingly counter‑intuitive, easy‑going approach.

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My heart rate is low. I'm not even running in any kind of strained way. I'm completely relaxed. And yet I'm just— I'm killing it. I'm crushing it. You know, so imagine what you can do in a race situation. Having run all my life, running competitively, running in marathons, running in 5Ks, 10Ks, using this method, I just said, it's just too slow. How do you get fast? You know, like they say, run slow to get fast. That's sort of corny. But, but there is a truism to it. That is when the MAF method really hits, hits home.