Ive always wondered what some elite athletes routines look like. Im not asking the question so I can go and folllow the same routine, its more a question of curiosity.
For example, Dan John wrote the article about Sergey Litvinov and his workout that was dubbed “Litivis Sprints”. Does anybody have any more workoutt or routines that may have been staples in the training of an elite athlete?
http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=1245783
Well, above is Jack Reape’s training log in his attempt to make Elite, which I’m sure he will.
Also, if you go over to Elitefts.com you’ll see the logs of a bunch of Elite level powerlifters in the Q&A section.
-MAtt
It’s kind of difficult to see what a lot of elite level athletes are doing. Understand that for team sports, most elite-level (professional) athletes have already reached the desired level of athleticism to be spectacular at their sport. So most of their programs are geared towards maintenance, injury rehabilition/prevention and conditioning.
Think about it, Lebron James would have to devote an incredible amount of his training time in order to increase his vertical just 1 or 2 more inches. And would that really make him a better player? His time would be much better off if he spent it on increasing his conditioning, making sure he stays healthy and working on basketball-specific training.
Of course, an event sport like track and field is a little different as their training is more specific. You can look these up.
Another think you might want to do is check out some college training programs. Arizona State, Wake Forest, Florida and VCU are a few schools that I’ve heard good things about their strength training programs. You might want to check out what they are doing.
If you look for the Houston Texans website, you can find their actual conditioning manual online. It breaks down the conditioning by position(actually groups similar positions together), as well as spelling out their team approach to nutrition and other key items.
I am a division-1 collegiate soccer player and exercise science major. I believe what you do will almost always depend on what you are looking to improve as an athlete. I am part of a sport that not only involves sprinting, power, and strength, but also endurance. In the spring we take the time to meet with our strength coach to make the largest improvements in our fitness (b/c our in-season is so short)
For good cardio gains, we perform interval and high intensity running exercises; we lift three times a week for strength and there are certain days we use to train for agility/plyos and/or speed. You will not see us running 5 miles very often because its not as beneficial in cardio gains or speed, but we do long distance once in a while (there are some advantages).
The one thing I would highly recommend is to separate intense running days from lifting days. It has been proven that lifting and running on the same days will hinder strength gains…separating the days is best.
But to give you an idea…when I prepare for preseason during the summer I will usually run interval or continuous high intensity workouts tuesday and thursday. I will lift monday, wednesday, friday and if I want to fit in some plyo’s or agility I will do it BEFORE my lifting. I will usually end my week with a nice long run on saturday, then use sunday for REST! This regime has been working for me.
k for american football the falcons s&c coach talks on elitefts listen.
my trianing partner is a pro rugby in season/ pre seaosn and off seaosn are his splits.
off season-
2 pure weights session- max effort upper and lower
1 power endurance- this is basically an aneroboic weight works out with supersets, strongman stuff, short break. but no running here excpet may be to flip tyres. so basically his coach makes this workout for whole team weekly, changes every week.
1 speed endurance- so start of with resisted sprints, free sprints with decent breaks. as speed falls breaks drop and sistance increses to work fart lek tyle.
a couple of swims/ rows a row at the beggining. may become more interval based
an agility session a week, he is a prop so generally scanks this session.
m am= fitness pm= lower body
t pm= fitness pm= upper body
w= skills
t pm= power endurance
f= speed endurance
dont know bout his agility stuff cos he dont do it.
[quote]boatguy wrote:
If you look for the Houston Texans website, you can find their actual conditioning manual online. It breaks down the conditioning by position(actually groups similar positions together), as well as spelling out their team approach to nutrition and other key items.[/quote]
Where on the site? I looked all over but missed it:(
Just found the manual:) Thanks…
links to pdf file
http://www.houstontexans.com/fitness/pdfs/fitness_corner091902.pdf
Stack Magazine posts some workouts online at www.stackmag.com.
Also, www.sportspecific.com is a decent source although you have to pay a subscription for access.
Check the T-Nation archives for really good articles as well (“Designer Athletes,” “Get Strong-Get Fast-Get Vertical,” etc.)…and it’s free!
that is why they are crap there workouts are an absolute joke
[quote]mrcat wrote:
Just found the manual:) Thanks…
links to pdf file
http://www.houstontexans.com/fitness/pdfs/fitness_corner091902.pdf[/quote]
There’s a few ok nuggets of wisdom in there…in between huge logs of doo doo.
[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
mrcat wrote:
Just found the manual:) Thanks…
links to pdf file
http://www.houstontexans.com/fitness/pdfs/fitness_corner091902.pdf
There’s a few ok nuggets of wisdom in there…in between huge logs of doo doo.
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Yeah, some interesting stuff, but I get the feeling this isn’t the “real” manual. I mean there is a write-up on women in an American football manual?