Welcome to episode 158 of the Final Surge Podcast. We welcome back the most downloaded guest of all time, Coach Tom ‘Tinman’ Schwartz. We catch up on a few things including how his team is dealing with the current lockdown situation, what teams should be doing now to get ready for the fall season and we discuss the new training plans he has released which you can find on Final Surge.
1:00 How are you holding up with the Covid-19 epidemic?
2:35 You used to coach from a distance for years so that must help?
2:55 Everyone healthy?
4:04 We had a group of high school coaches talking about the long distance until cross, so how do you plan your time?
6:21 Most programs will take 10-14 days, would you recommend they do it now?
13:53 You just recently released a couple of training plans on Final Surge
24:04 Your buildup plan you are doing workouts week one
30:06 So you a fan of speed ladders?
31:59 The other training plan is a longer non high school buildup
33:51 With the summer training plan could you use that during cross country season too?
37:20 When you are talking about taking a break you said people make mistake of taking two weeks off
42:10 Talk about your calculator and how people should use it
49:35 I use the calculator often but I have used the 1600 a lot for paces
Resources
RunFastCoach.com
Running Calculator
Training Plans
Tom on Instagram